Sustainable Design for Houses and Landscapes

• • Week 1 - Housing and Landscapes: The Bigger Picture
  • Week 2 - Beyond Sustainable Design for Houses
  • Week 3 - Climate: Designing and Adapting
  • Week 4 - Designing for Health and Wellbeing
  • Week 5 - Systems, Materials and Components.

You must either have successfully completed the following subject(s) before starting this subject, or currently be enrolled in the following subject(s) in a prior study period; or enrol in the following subject(s) to study prior to this subject:

• TAS-KDA101-Introduction to Sustainable Design for Houses

Please note that your enrolment in this subject is conditional on successful completion of these prerequisite subject(s). If you study the prerequisite subject(s) in the study period immediately prior to studying this subject, your result for the prerequisite subject(s) will not be finalised prior to the close of enrolment. In this situation, should you not complete your prerequisite subject(s) successfully you should not continue with your enrolment in this subject. If you are currently enrolled in the prerequisite subject(s) and believe you may not complete these all successfully, it is your responsibility to reschedule your study of this subject to give you time to re-attempt the prerequisite subject(s)

Additional requirements

No additional requirements

This subject will build on your practical knowledge of sustainable design for houses, expanding your thinking to houses within landscapes - both natural and constructed - and interacting with climate, biodiversity, human health and urban and regional food systems. You will explore systems-based design approaches including regenerative design, resilience thinking, permaculture principles and biophilic design that will enable you to better integrate your house within wider living systems and communities.

Through innovative, holistic precedent analysis, self-directed field study and structured design exercises, you will devise practical strategies to create, for example, adaptive microclimates around your house, a home-based food system, and conditions for improved backyard biodiversity, while also targeting well-being and bushfire design awareness. With these systems-based perspectives, you will likely see numerous new opportunities for action at home that contribute to ecological restoration and the well-being of your household and community.

The subject comprises five modules:

1.  Housing and landscapes - the bigger picture

2.  Beyond sustainable design for houses

3.  Climate - designing and adapting

4.  Designing for health and well-being

5.  Systems, materials and components.

• Online Quizzes (20%)
• Design Project (50%)
• Visual Field Report (30%)

Current study term: 19 Feb 23 to 28 May 23

Next study term: 09 Jul 23 to 15 Oct 23