Sustainability incorporates three pillars: society, environment, and economy. These considerations together encapsulated the present needs of a community and plans for the future. These sustainability pillars were applied to a bio-construction initiative in the Andean community of San Rafael, Ecuador. Our goal was to cooperate with the Azuay Prefecture, San Rafael administration, and community members to contribute to sustainable bio-construction designs that are locally appropriate to the parish of San Rafael. We incorporated a human-centered design approach to this project to ensure desirability, feasibility, and viability of our materials assessment. In this way, we assessed materials with regards to societal importance and presented simple sustainable bioconstruction designs.

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Creator

• Martin, Kara A
• Lopez, Caitlin Erin
• Suqui, Kathy
• King, Abigail Elizabeth

Subject

• Environment
• Sustainability
• Infrastructure
• Community

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-031517-154352

关键词

• Sustainability
• Construction industry--Environmental aspects
• Sustainable development--Environmental aspects

Advisor

• DiBiasio, David
• Elgert, Laureen

Year

• 2017

Center

• Cuenca, Ecuador Project Center - IQP

Sponsor

• Provincial Government of Azuay

Date created

• 2017-03-15

地点

• Cuenca

Resource type

• Interactive Qualifying Project

Rights statement

• In Copyright