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.
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Dr Ricardo Assis Rosa - Unit Lead
Christopher Fulton - Unit Tutor
Luke Gleeson - Technology and Sustainability Tutor
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Mina Samangooei
Andrea Placidi
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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