Eco-Efficient Prototype Design for Asylum Seeker Housing in Nogales, Sonora: A Parametric Approach

Abstract

Because of climate change, there are hundreds of millions of people will be displaced from their homes. (Roca Gallery, 2019) Migrants in Nogales who are forced to wait have been suffering. (Reznick,2021) Most of them need a temporary place to live and a way to survive. In addition, Architecture is one of the factors that cause climate change because building construction consumes 40% of the energy in the U.S. annually. (Cramer, 2017) ow to provide the eco-efficient emergency housing to accommodate migrants is an urgent question to address with the emergence of a large number of migrants and global climate change issues. The concept of eco-efficient in building construction and materials is important for the economy and saving energy and resources, it required the building is adapted to the environment, the inputs and outputs of the building to achieve the best state to minimize the impact on the environment.Nogales, Sonora is the largest transborder agglomeration in Arizona. This region is facing migration and environmental issues. Therefore, the objective of this research is to propose an eco-efficient prototype for asylum seeker housing on the Nogales border that responds to the environment and humanitarian crisis. To achieve the research goal, it will be necessary to identify the issue in Nogales, Sonora. Parametric modeling is a promising approach for designing and analyzing the building performance depending on the changing contextual conditions and also analyzing the building life cycle. Through the parametric approach for the building design and analysis, a better solution to the asylum seeker housing prototype design that fits in Nogales may be found.