Apart from focusing on the climatic dimension of architecture, the objective of the workshop is to find design strategies which bridge the
void between quantitative and qualitative approaches. As a result, special attention will be given to questions which in rare occasions are addressed in mainstream sustainability courses. The workshop will immerse students in the quotidian implications of sustainability, connecting everyday life to architecture, which introduces to the specialty the ethnological dimension of architecture. This question opens the experiential realm, introducing the human body in its physiological and psychological dimensions to architecture. Under this perspective, the history of architecture —which offers a rich variety of climatic and metabolic references— will be a powerful design tool.