create a design solution for a current residential building in a city of your choice that takes advantage of natural energy opportunities as they relate to the location of the building’s site, and the local climate.

Residential Sustainability Task Project Summary According to the UN, more than 7000 extreme weather events have been recorded since 2000. Just this year, wildfires raged across Australia and the west coast of the U.S.; Siberia charted record high temperatures, reaching 100 degrees Fahrenheit before Dallas or Houston; and globally, this September was the world’s hottest September on record. As the effects of the climate crisis manifest in these increasingly dire ways, it is the prerogative of the building industry – currently responsible for 39% of global greenhouse gas emissions – to do its part by committing to genuine and sweeping change in its approach to sustainability. Goal: Your task is to create a design solution for a current residential building in a city of your choice that takes advantage of natural energy opportunities as they relate to the location of the building’s site, and the local climate.
Role: Your job is to investigate passive design strategies and propose a design solution to creating a highly energy-efficient building that reduces the budgetary costs and carbon footprint of the residential building by designing a roof and installing solar panels on it. Audience: Your client is a family on a tight budget and needs to reduce their utility costs, and wants to reduce their carbon footprint. Situation: The situation is that you are to determine how effective solar panels would be at various times of the year at your given location. To be able to make easy calculations, it is often not sufficient to just have tables of data, which are readily available online. You will find an appropriate function that serves as a mathematical model for the hours of daylight in the location of your choice. Furthermore, you are able to re-orientate the building to take advantage of how the sun moves across the sky. Product: You need to develop a design brief that includes but is not limited to the orientation of the residential building on your site location, the design of the building’s roof, the placement of solar panels, and an appropriate function that serves as a mathematical model so that the residential building maximizes the use of solar energy. Residential roof dimensions: Residential isometric views with roof dimensions: Success Criteria: Your design brief will be assessed against the following standards: ● HSF-TF.B.5 Model periodic phenomena with trigonometric functions. ● HSG.MG.A.3. Apply geometric methods to solve design problems. ● MP.4.A – Apply mathematics to solve problems arising in everyday life, society, and the workplace. ● MP.4.A – Interpret mathematical results in the context of the situation and reflect on whether the results make sense, possibly improving the model if it has not served its purpose.