Year 4 Semester 1 - The Autonomous Dwelling Unit
Project Title: The Autonomous Dwelling Unit
Site: Prototype Housing, no specific site yet.
Perspective of the Autonomous Dwelling Unit
The Autonomous Dwelling Unit is a housing prototype we developed as a studio to test out the possibilities of a housing typology that does not need any external energy input to sustain, except for food and toilet paper.
Project Data
In the ideal scenario, if we could build an Autonomous Dwelling Unit, we could stack these units together to form an Autonomous Building, and if we arrayed these, we could eventually form an Autonomous Neighbourhood, or even an Autonomous City.
Exploded Axo
The Autonomous Dwelling Unit is an amalgamation of various sustainable technologies, consisting internal and external greens for natural cooling, accoustic shroud for sound localisation, wind funnel for bernoulli effect, rainwater collection system, solar panels, "living machines" for grey water recycling, localised cooling system, composting toilet and sustainable building materials. We also used modular structural system to enable the house to be transported by low-carriage tow trucks.
This project involved more than just our designing skills. This 11-man project required lots of rigourous design coordination, resourcefulness in sourcing for sponsorship and building materials, disciplined working attitude in construction and the courage/conviction to bring this project to reality despite being an unconventional academic project.
My individual intervention is in the study of wind, and how we can utilise natural ventilation to reduce the need for artificial cooling.
This comes in the form of a wind funnel, which utilises bernoulli effect to draw air into the central space when the wind is not blowing at a direction where direct cross ventilation is possible.
In designing the wind funnel and thru various problems encountered during the design coordination with groupmates, a modular false ceiling cum wind funnel system was developed.
This brings about a new typology that waits to be further developed in today's architecture and building scene.
Site: Prototype Housing, no specific site yet.
Perspective of the Autonomous Dwelling Unit
The Autonomous Dwelling Unit is a housing prototype we developed as a studio to test out the possibilities of a housing typology that does not need any external energy input to sustain, except for food and toilet paper.
Project Data
In the ideal scenario, if we could build an Autonomous Dwelling Unit, we could stack these units together to form an Autonomous Building, and if we arrayed these, we could eventually form an Autonomous Neighbourhood, or even an Autonomous City.
Exploded Axo
The Autonomous Dwelling Unit is an amalgamation of various sustainable technologies, consisting internal and external greens for natural cooling, accoustic shroud for sound localisation, wind funnel for bernoulli effect, rainwater collection system, solar panels, "living machines" for grey water recycling, localised cooling system, composting toilet and sustainable building materials. We also used modular structural system to enable the house to be transported by low-carriage tow trucks.
This project involved more than just our designing skills. This 11-man project required lots of rigourous design coordination, resourcefulness in sourcing for sponsorship and building materials, disciplined working attitude in construction and the courage/conviction to bring this project to reality despite being an unconventional academic project.
My individual intervention is in the study of wind, and how we can utilise natural ventilation to reduce the need for artificial cooling.
This comes in the form of a wind funnel, which utilises bernoulli effect to draw air into the central space when the wind is not blowing at a direction where direct cross ventilation is possible.
In designing the wind funnel and thru various problems encountered during the design coordination with groupmates, a modular false ceiling cum wind funnel system was developed.
This brings about a new typology that waits to be further developed in today's architecture and building scene.
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