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Article is a presentation and discussion of the complex of multi-family buildings which were built in Wroclaw in an interesting and challenging historical urban context. Discussion of the complex serves to define characteristic parameters that allow to consider the buildings as example of urban villa and to illustrate the process of reaching the optimum of these parameters in the context of urban environment. Ergonomics of the object's dependency from its surroundings will be analysed and considered as an aspect of sustainable design in a conscious decision-making process in an integrated interdisciplinary and computer-aided design environment. Discussed design process due to its flexibility and value is to show the urban villa's advantages as an answer to the needs of contemporary inhabitants of a big city. At the same time the author intends to highlight the influence of sustainable design on ergonomics of an architectural object nowadays, taking into account the degree to which it is possible to use and create computer tools for ergonomic and sustainable design.Keywords: Ergonomics in sustainable design of residential architecture Á Ergonomics of urban villa Á Computer-aided design environment for housing designers 1 Introduction: Ergonomics Versus or in Line with Sustainable Design?Architectural design is a multidisciplinary field. It is as vast and profound ascertainment as it may sound obvious. Each building is a unique result of combination of all relevant disciplines, where aspects and requirements of some have to be fulfilled in 100 % (safety and reliability of structure, fire safety, accordance with technical regulations and building standards, etc.), and some are more or less negotiable. This negotiation happens on various levels, where those various disciplines involved meet: investor's needs and financial ability, site or localization parameters, functional and aesthetic aspects versus indications at the local and national level of spatial policy, short and long term environmental impact, third parties interests (if applicable), and so on. These negotiations' main battlefield is architect's competences in connection with his or her main task of coordinating all disciplines in design process. However, today

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