5-step Design Process
CLIMATE EMERGENCY FUNDAMENTALS
Recorded by Sofie Pelsmakers, images by Essi Nisonen
KEY READINGS
Designing for the climate emergency, a Guide for Architecture Students, Pelsmakers, S., Donovan, E., Hoggard, A., Kozminska, U., RIBA
Henning Larsen Achitects, Design with Knowledge, 2012, https://issuu.com/henninglarsenarchitects/docs/design_with_knowledge_08112012
5-STEP DESIGN PROCESS
The 5 step iterative process and 10 climate emergency design themes will help you in the design-decision making process and in justification of your approach. To centre sustainability at the start of your project and refine it throughout you need to undertake integrated design and iterative design processes. Exploring your project’s context helps to make design decisions based on knowledge (Step 1) and helps to define project values and your climate emergency design approach (Step 2). This then sets a good foundation for imagining and testing (Steps 3, 4), and refining your architecture approach based on feedback loops (Step 5). Make sure you communicate your values and climate emergency design approach clearly and explicitly – this helps in the testing and feedback phase