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Team Synergy is a cohesive, passionate team of architecture and engineering students from the Manipal Academy of Higher Education. Their multiple perspectives and experiences in the field have led them to try and solve the challenges provided in the competition to achieve a Net-Zero Water and Energy design for a Community Resilience Shelter. The team has held various systematic meetings and discussions – internally, with industrial partners, and with their project partner, SELCO Foundation, a public charitable trust that aims to provide long-term living solutions for underserved communities. Together, they bring us their design proposal for a community resilience shelter - AHANA.

Nestled in the northern end of the shores of the Bay of Bengal, the site is located within a fisherman community in Puri, Orissa. As we formulated the design for the given space, we visualized a multi-purpose community building those accounts for a community kitchen, Anganwadi, a vocational training center, and other activities. At the same time, it aims at providing community resilience when disaster strikes in the vicinity. And during the times of non-disaster, the space would act as a primary health care center, children learning area, and woman empowerment area. The goal that our team has tried to achieve is not only short-term but also allows the community members to sustain life for a more extended period until their livelihoods are stable again.

We began by analyzing every aspect of the project, including the Energy Performance Index (EPI) goal, an estimate of on-site energy renewal and generation, and other on-site constraints in compliance with our institutional mentors and industry partners. We then studied the site in detail and proposed various aspects and requirements that we must consider making a fully functional working model. Pentakata is a city with a low employability rate. Our project tries to contribute a positive outreach to the town as we address and resolve at least 60% of the challenges provided in the Solar Decathlon Guidelines. Having a warm and humid climate for most of the year, we have targeted an EPI of 53.25 kWh/year. This has been achieved by incorporating innovative strategies like 100% on-site water reusability, automation systems to reduce wastage during the construction, and a sustainable solar passive building design to help achieve our goals. The renewable energy produced is from solar energy and wind energy, which will help provide the energy for the necessary power. Other than that, we have utilised materials that self shade, decreased the ground coverage, increased the FAR, and considered many different aspects to make the building working net-zero energy and net-zero water building.

Our team has put in consistent efforts at achieving the above discussed. Still, they have also tried to offer a viable solution to our challenges without disturbing the balance of the site's visual, thermal, and aesthetic comfort. The team also has worked on Increasing the FAR of the building as the site is small. The design and structural team have worked on making the building more resilient during times of disaster.