DS1 - Sustainable Community Living

This year DS1 was engaged in designing a proposal for a sustainable, diverse community of 50-100 people in Oxfordshire, responding to our brief of “Symbiotic Living” and informed by the RIBA Sustainability Framework and the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals. Students covered aspects such as health and wellbeing, connection with nature, the live-work paradigm, farming, community living and shared resources within both housing and commercial contexts. 
With a focus on working with existing and historic building fabric in the market town of Witney and its surroundings, we engaged in both rural and urban contexts, exploring the holistic nature of sustainable design which encompasses social, technical, environmental, spatial and economic factors. By putting people at the centre of a sustainability framework and design process, students grappled with the multi-faceted nature of the real challenges that an architectural response to the climate crisis faces.

  • Dr Ricardo Assis Rosa - Unit Lead

    Christopher Fulton - Unit Tutor

    Luke Gleeson - Technology and Sustainability Tutor

  • Mina Samangooei

    Andrea Placidi

  • Olivia Anderson

    Yusuf Aydin

    Omar ElSherbini Elsayed Elsherbini

    Julia Estrella Assis de Faria

    Yuliya Kaizer

    Mitchell Legge

    Liisa Murd

    Tinashe Mutero

    Jade Newman

    Alexia Nomikou

    Aaron Osinuga

    Ekaterina Petkova

    Elina Savvas

    Venktesh Sriram

    Sudharshini Thirupathirajan

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