Parametric Energy Simulation in Early Design
This project proposed a framework for the development of early-design guidance to inform architects and policy-makers using…
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Energizing Retrofits in an Inefficient Market: A Scalable Model for Small Commercial Buildings
by Greg Hopkins (MDes ’17) Buildings consume more energy than any other sector in the…
Living Conservation
by Mary Catherine Miller (MDes ’17) Prominent ecologists and biologists have published extensively on the…
Sovereignty on Stilts: Drawing a Genealogy of Extra-Territorial Urbanization along the Mudflats of the Tropical Belt
by Gabriel Muñoz Moreno (MDes ’17) and Santiago Serna Gonzalez (MDes ’17)—Recipient of the Project Prize in…
Mobilizing Habitations: Re-Imagining Nomadic Architecture in the Sub-Saharan Sahel Region
by Aman Singhvi (MDes ’16) As land is increasingly commoditized with an upsurge in population,…
The Littleton Trials
by David Kennedy (MDes ’16), Jacob Mans (MDes ’16), and Benjamin Peek (MDes ’16)—Recipient of the…
Wildland-Urban Interfaces: Attitudes and Altitudes
by Oliver Curtis (MDes ’17) This project explores the wildland-urban interface, “wilderburbs,” the growing borderland…
Zero-House
The project was a small two-story house which was located at Chambery, France. The goal of the competition was to achieve a surplus-energy house by manipulation of the given base design through integrated building strategies. A site weather file, two floor plans and a building…
Holly Samuelson
Associate Professor of Architecture
Coupling Thermal Mass & Buoyancy for Thermoregulation and Ventilation in India
by Palak Gadodia (MDes ’16) This thesis explores how the form and mass of a…
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