37º IAHS World Congress on Housing: - Universidad de Cantabria

XXXVII <strong>IAHS</strong><strong>World</strong> <strong>Congress</strong> on HousingOctober 26 – 29, 2010, Santander, SpainCODE: 212DESIGN FOR HEALTHY AND SUSTAINABLE BUILDINGPeter Schmid 1 and Gabriella Pal-Schmid 21 Faculty of Architecture, Building, and Planning, Eindhoven University of Technology TU/e, NL2 Research Education Design in Science Art Technology for Peaceful Sustainable Development - RED1 e-mail: Peter.Schmid.PS@gmail.comKey words: sustainable housing design, architecture, town planning, teamworkAbstractHow to design buildings, healthy for dwellers as well as builders and sustainable in the senseof responsible use of resources also for generations ahead? Our contribution fills a gap in thebody of knowledge concerning the significant improvement of sustainability by usingbiomass materials for the whole building scene. Answers to this question will be discussed inthis paper. Attention will be paid on basic principles of both, health and sustainability, and anumber of practical proposals for healthy and sustainable building systems. New ‘bio-logical’and technological possibilities give opportunities to design architecture for housing, wherevillage, town and city planning, and refurbishment are included. ‘Natural examples’ – in thiscontext bionics or bio mimicry – can deliver inspiring models to be followed for new,innovative building concepts. The use of renewable, particularly annually re-growing,biomass materials plays a dominant role in the development for healthy and sustainablebuildings. Recent design studies in the frame of building technology as well as architecturewill be explained. Beside design in its narrow sense, we consider the following essentialfactors as well: Strategies for refurbishment will show how the new developed technologiescan help to make the existing buildings more sustainable. In accordance with a holisticapproach – the MHP - Method Holistic Participation - can support efficient designorganization. In all phases of development, we have to be aware about the financialcircumstances. Those financial circumstances have unsustainably hidden sides, as alreadyoffered with the Iceberg Theory. The affordability of Housing, including many types ofbuildings, is a clearly tremendously important item. Objectives are opportunities for new,future-orientated perspectives and design proposals for globally relevant sustainable, healthy,and environmentally sound Housing.37º <strong>IAHS</strong> <strong>World</strong> <strong>Congress</strong> On Housing Science 117