ARC70003 Hybrid Living Studio Folio

To ensure Melbourne becomes more sustainable as it grows and to respond to the challenge of climate change we should slop designing buildings as stand-alone elements in the urban fabrics. Lack of greenery, solid buildings without enough porosity, overshadowing and noise are some common issues in the design of residential hybrids which can affect the health and wellbeing of citizens. Integrating mixed-use developments or hybrids with urban fabrics is challenging and requires feedback loops across multiple scales of design: from Macro-scale design of building morphology to Micro-scale design of building surfaces (which have a tremendous contribution in the building’s energy consumption, cities’ urban heat island and alteration urban micro-climatic parameters such as temperature, airflow pattern, noise, and smell). These challenges need to be addressed through a holistic design approach to consider “ multi-scalar multi-variable analysis”, to form feedback loops between multiple scales, parts /whole, mass /void and multi-variable data analysis).