HDCI MISSION STATEMENT - our aims
Design for Physical Health and Well-being
- Create a healthy indoor climate by allowing houses to breathe using natural air flow and ventilation.
- Provide safe and healthy, air, water, light and good humidity levels.
- Create a quiet home, protected and insulated from invasive noise.
- Design a home full of natural light.
- Site the home away from harmful radiation, power lines and traffic pollution.
- Create a visually stimulating and tactile space.
Design for good Mental Health and Peace of the Spirit
- Use colour, textures and harmonious sound to create a personal therapeutic space.
- Make the home harmonious with its environment, blending with community, building styles, scale and local materials.
- Create flowing spaces that allow occupants to move freely around the building.
- Use shapes, size and proportions that link to human scale.
- Connect the home to the natural world and nature’s rhythms and cycles.
- Provide private quiet spaces where individual occupants can relax.
Design for Health and Harmony of the Planet
- Site, orientation and shelter the home to make best use of renewable resources.
- Use green sustainable materials that are non-toxic and no-polluting.
- Design homes to complement natural mechanisms that regulate energy, heating, cooling, airflow and lighting.
- Use low energy materials that have low environmental impact and Fairtrade credentials.
- Provide adequate re-cycling space and storage for the occupants.
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