Human Centred Design Group Assignment

Meet the Team

Iterator

Kelvin Onose Enofe

Good with iteration / Not a great maker

Maker

Letizia Brambillasca

Great turning ideas into real things/ but not a good failer

Optimist

Raghd Alkanafani

Not scared to fail as many times to get it right/ not great empathiser

Embrace Ambiguity

Aneta Arifi

Very open-minded and a critical thinker/ Finds it hard to start

Creatively Confident

Walter Oeschger

Good with keeping ideas realistic/ limits creativity

A better and sustainable way of living

Empathize

This stage of the process was focused on seeing through the eyes of users.

Divorcees, Students (International/ Local), Social Housing, Employed/ Unemployed people, International professionals, refugees, families, Living together partners.

Caro 20, International Student

Saar 21, Home Owner

Lura 25,

Rents a Studio

Vinicius 23, International Student

Isabelle 17, Lives with Parents

Genesis 32,

International Professional

Oli 21, International Student

Mathias 55, Families

Molea 22 years old

Rents a studio

Define

Interview Insights

"They had to stop to go to school and went back home because they could not find an available place to rent."

"Expensive living, there were not enough shared accommodations."

How Might We Questions

How might we create equal chances for both foreigners and locals to find a place to live in The Netherlands?

How might we shorten the waiting time for a new apartment/ house for all types of groups including separated people, refugees, students, and foreign people?

How might we sustainably increase the number of affordable houses in order to suffice the population in the Netherlands?

Ideate

Gut-Check

Kelvin: (Dormir)- An underground community with it’s own ecosystems (sun, rain, city center, etc.)

Letizia: (Tree House)- Houses interlocked in a tree

Raghd: (self-built houses) - A house can be built like a (lego concept) by the owners wherever they want.

Aneta: (Glass houses)- A house surrounded by protective glass.

Walter: (City Wall) - A large 3 dimensional living space within a "wall"

Final Ideas:

- Lego House

- Domus

- Ekko House

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Lego House

A house where you can collect it together. Move it wherever you want to. made of legos!

Main Takeaways:

Location
The legos might be light weight - not well connected/clicked

Domus

This is a combination of underground houses, tree houses and above ground buildings all inside a wall. The idea was to create a 3 dimensional community in between a wall.

Main Takeways:

Too expensive to build
Not very affordable
Not enough space in the Netherlands to build this.

Interior View

First Drawn Draft

Top View

Final Product

Sustainable

Economical

Available

Partnership with Recycling Companies

In the Netherlands, 1 billion plastic bottles are sold each year, of which 50 to 100 million are thought to end up in the environment. (Capelli, 2020)

Description:

Using recycled bottles it is possible to build houses and by implementing a layer of plant seeds, it will be possible to construct a house that will not damage the surrounding environment as well as being fully a part of nature.

Testing

People are happy using recycle materials for the future houses, protecting the environment.
Giving feedback of which aspects should be changed, such as the size, while us implementing their preferences .
Happy for affordable houses to be available.
They think that it's necessary keeping that "green look" like the Netherlands wants to.

Conclusion

Design Process:

Understanding of Challenge
Empathize: Secured interviewees and gained perspective of users
Define: Understanding the insights of interviews & HMW questions
Ideate: Exchange & Generation of ideas with use of different forms of brainstorms and tools
Understanding of ideas (Pros/Cons)
Prototype: Creation of ideas that can be used for Testing
Testing: Using interviewees we tested the ideas and gained further insight and understanding from the user
Limitations on Final Idea:
Sourcing recycling companies to partner with
Cost of construction