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called ‘ZEMCH Workshop UEL 2014’. It welcomed 20 participants and encompassed a series of essential learning and demonstration activities run by 5 international academics from Australia, Brazil and the United Arab Emirates. In 2015, the design workshop was resumed and hosted by the
University of São Paulo (USP), São Carlos, Brazil. The ‘ZEMCH Workshop USP 2015’ extended the
operation time to 5 days (13 to 17 April, 2015). Nineteen postgraduate students from several universities (UniMelb, USP, UEL and UNICAMP) participated, while 6 tutors (Akemi Ino, Karin Chvatal,
Kelen Dornelles, Lucia Shimbo, and Bruno Damineli from USP and Masa Noguchi from UniMelb)
steered the teaching operation.

3 Workshop Methods
Overall scheme
The ZEMCH Workshop at USP was designed to transfer technical design knowledge required
for the delivery of zero energy mass custom social homes in developing countries. It included
five main phases (Figure 1): 1) Theoretical Basis, 2) Function Analysis, 3) Design Development and
Energy Analysis, 4) Final Presentation Finalization, and 5) Final Individual Presentation (with the
development of the final product, i.e., a zero energy mass custom social home). They were divided into Pre-workshop, Workshop and Post-workshop activities and aimed at providing enough
knowledge in a short period of time (5 days) for the obtaining of a final product considering the
aspects of a ZEMCH.

Figure 1: Main phases and corresponding activities of the workshop.

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