REGEN VILLAGES

ReGen Villages is a model for the development of sustainable and resilient eco-villages with a focus on regenerative aspects of living. This is a project done by Effekt and located in Almere, Netherlands. ReGen Villages uses a series of residential prototypes in its design, showing how variation can be created between residential typologies while keeping design consistency. In addition, this project uses a collection of different sustainable housing features which vary in usage between the various typologies presented. 107

This project serves as a precedent for the prototyping aspect of the architectural project. For this thesis project, the focus is on biophilic design practices, much like the way that the focus of ReGen Villages is on the sustainable housing features and not the residential design. The thesis design project will look to ReGen Villages as inspiration for the prototyping of standardized residential typologies and how different elements of biophilic design can be integrated into these prototypes.