Multi-Unit Residential

Project Brief

Design an environmental concept for a 2000m2 multi-unit residential building. You project site may be in any urban area on earth and should embrace some of the goals and concepts that your group members described in their future living essay. Infills are ideal but optional. If you decide to replace an existing building, you need to justify your choice. When choosing your site, you might consider additional parameters such as neighborhood walkability, spatial proximity to jobs and/or adaptive reuse of existing, underused office space. Housing is of course a multi-facetted topic. While we will be focusing on sustainable building design aspects such as occupant comfort and operational energy use, we compiled a list of Modeling Tips For Multi-unit Residential Buildings that you should follow as well.

To develop the project, go through the following Design Exercises: Net Zero Feasibility Study, Daylight Precedences + Massing Study, Daylight Availability Study, Visual Comfort, Electric Lighting, Thermal Model Setup, EUI Study and HVAC Design. If you are taking MIT 4.401/4.464, your final presentation should draw from these design exercises. You are welcome/encouraged to add additional work to create a coherent project narrative . This skeleton presentation provides additional tips. Example projects from previous class runs are shown below.