The dynamic nature of climatic situations demands a rethink of concepts, approaches, and techniques to include specific social, economic, technological and environmental components in addition to the historical cultural and geographical factors with a strong place-based and wellbeing focus.

The design of a house plays an important role in the sustainability, affordability, and resilience besides improving the residents’ quality of life. Climate responsive, adaptive, and passive design strategies coupled with innovative solutions are fundamental to resilient homes.

The object of this challenge is to prepare emerging professionals especially the students and young graduates to envision and design a climate adaptive, net-zero, resilient, inclusive, and sustainable house that is affordable to own, operate and maintain by the standards of lower to middle-income level households in the Global South setting. Housing designs must enhance the quality of life and well-being of residents, as well as adapted to climate change, and resilient to the projected natural disaster in a given setting.

Programme

Submit the Expression of Interest (EoI) by 12 June 2023

Workshop 1 – Introduction, background and Q&A (15 June 2023)
Workshop 2 – Passive strategies and contexts for resilient housing (21 June 2023)
Workshop 3 – How to design and build a resilient house? (5 July 2023)
Workshop 4 – Thermal Comfort (12 July 2023)
Workshop 5 – Energy Modelling and Lifecycle Assessment (19 July 2023)
Workshop 6 – Renewable Energy, Conservation and Management (26 July 2023)