Affordables & Efficients Housing

Our goal is to :

• Offer more attractive living conditions and more opportunities in dense and constrained urban centres, esp. in disadvantaged neighbourhoods, and to contribute to a sense of community while reducing resource use and energy demand; to this end, sharing strategies and new living and mobility forms will be developed and tested. 
• Improve the climate of indoor spaces in summer with low-tech architectural and design solutions. At the same time, the aesthetic qualities (choice of materials and interior design) improve the well-being of the inhabitants. 

• Understand technical, economic (affordability) and environmental performance (e.g., direct and grey CO2) of planned and alternative/modified high-tech solutions of deep energy retrofit; 

• Engage stakeholder with particular focus on inhabitants; Understand the legal constraints related to heritage conservation and the margin of discretion; transfer of learnings to other sites / conditions, analysis of trade-offs;  

• Assess different tiny-house living forms in (sub-) urban contexts. Inform stakeholders about opportunities, drawbacks as well as recommended steps and procedures