What you will learn
- Identify social practices and spatial configurations that determine the qualities of existing dwelling communities.
- Understand how addressing sociocultural adequacy, affordability and materiality as key design factors promotes sustainable approaches to housing.
- Understand how design approaches based on incrementality, typological mix and clustering can enhance the living conditions of urban communities.
- Compare the characteristics of housing schemes designed by different architects taking account of different social, political and geographical contexts.
- Evaluate the performance of dwelling communities taking into consideration the relation between social, economic and environmental factors.
Program Overview
Expert instruction
2 skill-building courses
3 months
4 - 5 hours per week
Discounted price: $304.20
Pre-discounted price: $338USD
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Courses in this program
DelftX's Housing Design for All Professional Certificate
- Sustainable Housing Design
- Global Housing Design
- Job Outlook
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