Sustainable housing By:Shayan S.Zangana University Of Sulaimanyah School Of Architecture ...

1. Presentation By:
Shayan Salar Ahmed
University Of Sulaimany
Faculty Of Engineering
Architecture Dept.
Presentation About:
Housing
2014-2015
Supervised By:
L. Ako Nury Shary

2. Content
 1. What is sustainable housing?
 2. Why sustainable housing?
 3. Environmental sustainability of housing.
 4. Social and cultural sustainability of housing.
 5. Economic sustainability of housing.
 6. Conclusion (Find a balance across
the sustainability dimensions.
Reference:
-Un-Habitat :sustainable husing for sustainable cities.
-Un-Habitat Documentations and studies.
-‘Sustainability is not enough’, Environment and
Urbanization, Marcuse, P. (1998)

3.  Housing is one of those basic social conditions
that determine the quality of life and welfare of
people and places. Where homes are located,
how well designed and built, and how well
they are weaved into the environmental, social,
cultural and economic fabric of communities
are factors that,
 Housing is also part of the relationships
between society and the environment. On the
one hand, housing construction and operation
consume large amounts of natural resources
(land, energy, water, building materials), while
producing waste, air and water pollution.
 This complex web of inter-relationships
between sustainability and housing is addressed
by the policies for sustainable housing.
1. What is sustainable housing?
Fig.1 (along the four dimensions
of sustainability – environmental, social,
cultural and economic),

4.  Sustainable housing offers a great spectrum of opportunities to promote economic
development, environmental stewardship, quality of life and social equality, while
mitigating the precarious convergences of the problems related to population growth,
urbanization, slums, poverty,
climate change,
lack of access
to sustainable energy,
and economic uncertainty.
2. Why sustainable housing?

5. Affordable housing is commonly
considered on a cost
basis, while environmental and social issues
(including people preferences, lifestyles,
cultural aspirations), as well as economic
impacts are thought to be addressed
separately or totally ignored.
Planned and built within an integrated
sustainability framework,
housing will not only
be more accessible to low-income
households, but will also respond to their
diverse social and cultural needs and will
have multiple positive
outcomes for people’s physical and mental
health and safety, for economy, and for the
built and natural environments.
2. Why sustainable housing?

6.  is concerned with the impacts of housing onthe environment and climate
change, as well as the impacts of the environment on housing itself.
More specifically, there are three types of the relationships between housing and
the environment:
 1. House building and operation require
various environmental resources, such
as building materials, water, energy and
land;
 2. Residential activities in human
settlements have direct ecological impacts
on local areas in terms of air and water
pollution, waste and damage of natural
ecosystems;
3. Environmental sustainability of housing.
3. Homes and their residents are also
themselves exposed to varied
environmental hazards, which may
emerge due to
-human activities (e.g. air and water
pollution),
-due to natural factors (e.g.
landslides),
-or due to the combination of
natural
and human-made factors
(e.g. climate change).

7.  Housing is critical to meeting basic human needs in shelter, but it is also
important for the social development of communities and societies.
Housing social needs can be expressed as a certain hierarchy as in Although
traditionally housing policy has focused on fundamental social needs fulfillment,,
4. Social and cultural sustainability of housing.

8. it also has to ensure that housing achieves
intermediate social needs such as transport
and facilities, as well as the ultimate
needs of the development of human and
social capital and capacity
(education, skills and health,),
cohesion and wellbeing in communities
and society at large (good relationships,
participation, inclusion and equity,).
These challenges are
considered within the social and cultural
dimensions of housing sustainability.
4. Social and cultural sustainability of housing.

9.  The economic dimension of housing sustainability emerges from a variety of
economic functions and implications that the housing system has, such as:
 • Housing and related infrastructure are
among the most valuable and lasting human-
made capital assets;
 • Housing provides the basis for human
welfare, labour productivity and mobility;
 • Housing is an important part of household
expenditures and public expenditure
and if unaffordable creates numerous socio-
economic problems;
5. Economic sustainability of housing.
• Housebuilding, housing services
and real estate markets are among
the key economic and employment
activities;
• Housing is a platform for home-
based activities and
entrepreneurship;
• Housing is part of economic flows
of natural resources and energy.

10.  Certainly, there are positive cross-linkages between improving different dimensions of
sustainability in housing, so that sometimes it is even not possible to easily divide
measures into the environmental, social, cultural or economic categories. Let’s
consider, for instance, some examples of the multiwin across
environmental and economic dimensions:
 • Transforming housing stock towards
environmental sustainability is
simultaneously an opportunity to raise
the economic sustainability – energy,
 • Physical and functional durability and
the enhancement of the lifetime of
houses is another major concern for
sustainable construction.
 • Positive side-effects from energy
retrofitting projects can include the
improved aesthetics of buildings; better
noise isolation; b
6. Conclusion (Find a balance across
the sustainability dimensions).
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