A suitable design methodology for collective-self-organized housing projects to build sustainable districts

Collective building has become more popular movement over the last twenty years particularly within the EU countries. There are different forms and typologies of such movements which have a changing degree of community profile, shared-values and different expectations from the program of housing. When the energy-ambition is included in their programs, and embedded into the values of the community, collective housing carries a potential to be as grassroots movement towards building self-organized energy-efficient district via collective behavior. In this paper, it is conceptualized as Collective Self Organized Housing (CSO). However, in order to build sustainable districts on collective manner requires a design methodology which establishes strong and clear relationships among community, design professionals, suppliers, and municipalities. In this paper, we firstly define CSO design process; secondly review participatory design and concurrent design methodologiesto see their advantages and disadvantages; finally present CSO design methodology