Hurst Park housing design competition: environmental design review

This study expands on an environmental design report in partial fulfillment of the writers’ M.Phil in environmental design in architecture. The scope of this study is to review how environmental issues enter into the creative process of an environmental design assignment. The assignment integrates within the design process physical and software tools. The study proposes that core environmental guidelines are generative in the design process and environmental tools function best as assessment, validation and fine-tuning of that process