AIA Canada - A Pattern Language from Passive House

Session 1 - Context and Form

When: Wednesday 9 November 2022 @ 12:00 (Eastern US Time)
CES Credits - 3 LU/ HSWs for AIA Members; course offers 12 LU/ HSWs total
Cost - $700 (AIA members get 10% discount with code AIAPL39#)

Description

AIA Canada is excited to to partner with Passive House Canada to offer this four-part course to AIA members. Get your 12 AIA credits with 12 HSW to satisfy your annual credit requirements before the end of the year!

This is an interactive workshop that teaches cost-effective planning and design of affordable, low-emission, mid-rise, multi-unit, wood-framed housing. This four-part workshop presents design problems common to multi-unit buildings, followed by solutions that have worked in previous high-performance projects. These solutions are organized into “patterns” using a format adapted from A Pattern Language by Christopher Alexander (et al). The patterns presented in this workshop are drawn from the hundreds of affordable multi-unit buildings constructed to the Passive House standard worldwide, because this is the largest cohort of affordable, low-emission, mid-rise, multi-unit housing. While these solutions are taken from Passive House buildings, they are applicable for residential building design to meet Step 4 of the BC Energy Step Code, as well as multi-unit buildings aiming for similar low-TEDI or not-zero energy standards. Likewise, while this workshop focuses on affordable housing, the patterns apply equally to market- and luxury-housing projects. RDH is consulting to or certifying more than six million square feet of Passive House. The course is an attempt to condense what we have learned from those projects, with a focus on how to construct multi-family passive house for less.

Course Dates

Day 1: Wednesday November 9, 2022
Day 2: Wednesday November 16, 2022
Day 3: Wednesday November 23, 2022
Day 4: Wednesday November 30, 2022