LIVING PLACES

Living Places is another regenerative project by Effekt, in which the entire lifecycle is taken into consideration to enable a holistic approach to sustainable construction. It is an ongoing project in Copenhagen that is also intended to serve as an example that can be implemented globally. The project consists of a series of different residential prototypes in a catalog, that are intended to be flexible and adaptive, and aim to address the lifestyles of many different living situations in the overall community. 108

There are five guiding principles of the design that are implemented in each residential building: healthy, shared, simple, adaptive, and scalable. These principles are applied differently in each building to contribute to variation between the different typologies and to best address the living situation within. 109

Additionally, each home design incorporates five different healthy building principles: thermal environment, light, acoustics, outdoor connection, and interior air quality. These principles are vital to the sustainable aspect of the project and are represented clearly in a series of sectional renderings that diagram out the application of each. 110

This project serves as a precedent for the prototyping aspect of the architectural project, along with being a representational and program precedent. The thesis project will reference the process of residential prototyping in Living Places to complete the design project, along with looking at the way that the guiding and sustainable principles are applied to serve as an example for the application of five biophilic practices in each of the project’s prototypes. Finally, it will draw on the representational style of the diagrammatic sectional renderings used to display the sustainable principles in Living Places as a way to clearly present what aspects of biophilic design have been implemented.