Sustainable Tropical Housing

• ABPL90152
• Contact Hours: This subject runs as a field trip project at the end of Semester 2 every second year. It also has two ‘build’ components where students build full scale buildings, one at the Creswick campus and one interstate or overseas.
  Total Time C
• 12.50

This subject will introduce the principles for designing and constructing sustainable housing in the tropics. It addresses the effects of both sociological and technical issues and discusses affordability, liveability, environmental impacts, sociality and relationships between community networks and space. The first part of the subject addresses these issues on both a theoretical and case study basis while the second part takes this background material ‘into the field’ to address real life problems via the design studio (and where possible design and construct studios) in Southeast Asia or northern Australia. -- Course Website

Prerequisites: None