Evolutionary housing process. Design tools for an integrated approach to urban, typological and technological issues for housing in the 21st Century

Changing trends in lifestyles has direct impact on housing process. Architects of the future are faced with the challenges of domestic space needs of different people. There is need to design dwellings based on flexibility, adaptability, incorporating energy saving measures. Currently the housing process design involves the definition of the relationship between low energy comsuption and low CO2 emissions against a backdrop of emerging trends on new residential buildings. The research will be guided by following workpackages at different scale from urban to architectural and technological design. The findings of this study will show how the evolutionary housing process is connected to these three steps: context, typology and sustainable renovation, with the definition of best practice in design of “House for 21st Century”. That is compatible with the environment and meets the users’ needs.