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Title: The city of tomorrow
Duration: 04:47
Description: Bo01 in Malmo, Sweden is an experimental, forward thinking housing community in a regenerated harbour area. It focuses on sustainability and cutting edge design. The second development, Bo02, was an opportunity to take the learning from Bo01 and apply it to a new community which had many of the same goals. In addition, Bo02 had to be affordable, something Bo01 had failed in. What was learned, applied and changed in the new development?
Subject: Design and Technology Topic: New Technologies
Keywords: DesignedWorld, design, process, society, house, carbon, sustainability, power, architect, Sweden, energy, water, climate, technology, geography

The two developments in Malmo, Sweden shown have attempted to produce sustainable community housing. The designers used two approaches – looking backwards in time to identify desirable features of communal living and then using their findings to inform designs that utilised modern energy efficient materials and structures. Lessons learned from the shortcomings of the first development were used to inform the second development. The overall findings are likely to be useful in housing design in many different countries. You can use this programme to provide a stimulus for pupils who are considering sustainable building design for homes, schools or public buildings.

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