Design Choices | Cloaked House and Sustainable Design Strategies
On-demand CPD
1 Formal CPD Point
Overview
This CPD session will focus on sustainable design strategies employed at Cloaked House. More broadly, it intends to demonstrate how this as a case study carries lessons for other housing projects, including in relation to thermal comfort, operational and embodied carbon, and building retention. This session will enable architects and designers to apply more informed sustainable strategies to their own practice.
NSCA 2021 Performance Criteria
PRACTICE MANAGEMENT AND PROFESSIONAL CONDUCT
- PC3: Understand the principles of project planning, considering implications for Country, environmental sustainability, communities, stakeholders and project costs.
- PC10: Understand the whole life carbon implications of procurement methods, materials, components and construction systems.
PROJECT INITIATION AND CONCEPTUAL DESIGN
- PC18: Be able to apply creative imagination, design precedents, research, emergent knowledge and critical evaluation in formulating and refining concept design options, including the exploration of three dimensional form and spatial quality.
- PC24: Understand how to identify and evaluate project development options in response to a project brief – its objectives, budget, user intent and built purpose, risks and timeframe, including environmental sustainability considerations.
- PC26: Be able to undertake site, cultural and contextual analysis as part of preliminary design research.
- PC31: Be able to identify, analyse and integrate information relevant to environmental sustainability – such as energy and water consumption, resources depletion, waste, embodied carbon and carbon emissions – over the lifecycle of a project.
- PC35: Understand the operational and embodied carbon implications of chosen materials, components and systems.
DETAILED DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION DOCUMENTATION
- PC45: Understand processes for selecting materials, finishes, fittings, components and systems, based on consideration of quality and performance standards, the impact on Country and the environment, and the whole life carbon impact of the project.
Learning Outcomes
At the end of this session, participants will be able to:
- Identify and explain the sustainable design strategies used in Cloaked House, including approaches to thermal comfort and building retention.
- Assess the operational and embodied carbon impacts of design decisions demonstrated through Cloaked House as a case study.
- Apply insights from the Cloaked House case study to inform sustainable strategies for other housing projects, including approaches to thermal performance, material selection, and adaptive reuse.
Speaker
Jennifer McMaster, TRIAS
Jennifer McMaster a founding director of TRIAS and a Practice Educator in Architecture at the University of Sydney.
TRIAS’ work is grounded in an ethic of “sophisticated sustainability,” with projects that are ambitious, elegant, and environmentally responsible. The studio’s portfolio has been widely recognised in local and international awards programs, design competitions and press, including via multiple AIA awards at a local and national level.
In her academic role as a Practice Educator in Architecture, Jennifer lectures, teaches and conducts research on housing, sustainability, and embodied carbon. In 2024, she was awarded the National AIA Emerging Architect Prize for industry leadership.
Price
Members: $79
Student members: FREE
Non-members: $149
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