GTH 2011
Goal
This project:
- aims to increase public awareness of sustainable applications in building and house designs
- encourages students to work in multidisciplinary teams to tackle problems of low energy use, application of biorenewable materials and no greenhouse gas emissions for sustainable designs
- provides education and exchange knowledge on sustainable development and design increasing creativity in the student teams
Criteria
The building criteria are:
1. The proposal should take into account economy awareness.
2. The house has to be build within the Malaysian building requirements.
3. The house has to be adapted to the equatorial climate.
The sustainable requirements of the design will be:
1. Strive to use innovative, renewable and recyclable materials.
2. Optimize energy and water efficiency.
3. It has to be adapted to the climate and culture of Malaysia.
4. It has to promote user participation in home making, in order to maintain ecological balance in man-environment relationship.
5. To demonstrate ESD (Environment Sustainable Design).
Submission of criteria
The participants have to hand in a set of architectural drawings (plans, elevations, section, 3D and detailed drawings), a 2 minute video presentation and a report explaining:
1. Design rationale
2. Accommodation program
3. Evaluation of the materials used
4. Life cycle concept to estimate carbon footprint
5. Construction technology involved
6. Thermal comfort evaluations
7. Cost implications
The drawings have to be placed on two A1 boards, made in parametric modeling applications, and the report (20 pages maximum) has to be made in word and PDF.
During the design process, short movies or a website has to keep updated about the process progress for the public. Finally a 2 min maximum video presentation has to be provided which will summarize the episodes of the movies/website and/or present and explain the design, as well a 3D model of the design. Everything has to be handed in hardcopy and softcopy at the GreenTech House Competition Secretariat.
Eligibility
Teams have to consist of four - eight participants and at least two different disciplines have to be present in every team. The multidisciplinary expertise can be for example architecture, biobased building materials, biotechnology, energy systems, botany and landscaping, marketing, economy, etc.
The participants have to be students in their undergraduate, graduate or postgraduate studies registered at a University of Malaysia.
Teams led by architectural firms and consultancies are excluded from the competition, but teams may consult expertise they wish to include from their own university or outside their own university or abroad.
Teams of participants must be willing to accept press invitations for interviews and the winning team should be willing to accept invitations for university, school and public lectures, and extensive media attention.
