Sustainable housing
This part of the project involved creating of sustainable housing. We focused on sustainable city/town.
The aim was to design a town in which cheap and renewable energy is part of community as well as reducing of waste and energy consumption in general.
We think that sustainable town must consider all UN goals, not just the environmental ones. That is why we lead our students to think about inhabitants, too.
We started with a brainstorming aimed at previous part of the project in which we covered cheap and renewable energy as a part of family house design. Then we explored town infrastructure and searched for examples of successful solutions currently available.
The basics covered in the discussion were:
- new technologies in architecture (materials, insulation)
- architecture itself (air circulation...)
- energy resources (geothermal energy, wind energy, solar energy)
- reduction of CO2 production (in heating, transportation ...)
http://www.linktransit.com/services_and_programs/electric_bus_project.php
- alternative energy (hydrogen-based engines, nuclear energy)
https://www.cez.cz/edee/content/microsites/nuklearni/k33.htm
https://vtm.zive.cz/clanky/auta-na-vodikovy-pohon-jak-funguji-a-proc-by-nas-mela-zajimat/sc-870-a-201645/default.aspx
http://www.gate2biotech.cz/budeme-jezdit-na-vodikove-bakterie/
- healthy environment, reduction of waste + recycling (packaging-free shops, sustainable fashion, the role of plants and trees in towns, green buildings..)
https://www.fashionmagazin.cz/udrzitelna-moda/
Zelené budovy (odkaz na vyhledávání v obrázcích)
https://mapa.reduca.cz/
- energy consumption reduction
- local micro-grid
https://www.cummins.com/cz/news/2021/09/23/examples-where-microgrids-used
http://www.smartcityvpraxi.cz/zajimave_projekty_298.php
https://www.technickytydenik.cz/rubriky/veda-vyzkum-inovace/usa-podporuji-rozvoj-mikrositi_35061.html
- different transportation mechanisms in a community
- cycle tracks + pedestrian paths across the town
- CO2 free buses and trains, shared cars
The biggest questions that came from our students’ work are:
- Is it helpful to switch to electric energy everywhere when we do not have reliable cheap and clean energy sources?
- Do we have the technology to recycle batteries?
- How much harm is done when producing electric cars (mining for minerals, energy cost of production...)
Younger as well as older student created a town Nové Kladno. Although they are not skilled architects and engineers, they tried to involve all the basic ideas in there. Every class involved in the project drew or painted small parts. Then we cut it out and finished out town on the floor in one of the clasroom.