ZEMCH Sustainable Design Workshop. K2IA Team

This “ZEMCH Sustainable Design Workshop” 5-day intensive engineering design workshop is meaningful, functioning locally/globally as a “knowledge booster” of sustainable and low energy design education. This workshop, which is only 1 week to learn and experience sustainable design techniques and assessment skills through the multi-disciplinary pragmatic group activities. Our team approach considers the delivery of zero energy mass customisable homes for people that are at-risk or in-need. In addition to the dwellings providing shelter, we have also pursued an approach that sees the creation of a place that provides economic opportunity and fosters social inclusivity. Whilst residents will occupy this community in a temporary capacity, maybe from 6 months to 2 years, they will eventually depart having gained new skills, demonstrated their economic potential and being accepted into the wider social community. Our approach has been to consider how the residents may interact and how these orchestrated interdependencies will create a resilient community.