Designing a digital, modular, and sustainable micro-home infrastructure for communities in Copenhagen.
ROLE: Concept, Research, Design
TEAM: William Qian, Kathryn Larson
CLIENT: Self-Initiated
YEAR: Dec 2020
Building sustainable and affordable vernacular communities
Sustainability Problems
Achieving digitally-enabled sustainability requires intelligent building technologies that are almost exclusively associated with large-scale, capital intense architectural developments. However, such real estate projects can have serious environmental impacts.
Design Solutions
Tommelisehuse is a proposal for a modular micro-home typology integrated with IoT infrastructure. The concept of resource collection (water and solar energy) motivated the physical design of the two featured housing types.
Individually, each micro-home act as a node on a system and collects the daily environmental and resource collection data. As a cluster, the micro-homes can redistribute and share excess resources with their neighbors, and the community members can monitor long-term consumption trends and make informed environmental decisions.
Opportunities and Impacts
In the long term, Tommelisehuse aims to achieve sustainable community building and utilize the aggregated data to enable the local community to participate in informed, impactful policy-making processes.
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