Archiverse
by Jacob Hamman (MDes Tech '16) Archiverse is a new digital design platform for architectural and…
Projects
Charleston: Curating Exclusion
by Javier Ors-Ausin (MDes CC ’17), Dana McKinney (MArch/MUP ’17), Megan Mahala Echols (MUP ’16),…
Abductive Architecture
by Alexander Timmer (MArch '16) Inference or logical reasoning in the design, representation, and dissemination…
Jakarta’s Orogeny: Inhabiting Java’s Volcanic
by Pedro Aparicio Llorente (MDes ULE ’16), recipient of the Gerald M. McCue Medal, and Namik…
Allometric Sake
by Amira Abdel-Rahman (MDes '17), Gabriel Muñoz Moreno (MDes '17), and Santiago Serna Gonzalez (MArch/MDes…
Information Tool on Urban Water Systems
The Zofnass Program for Sustainable Infrastructure has developed the Information Tool on Urban Water…
Collective Meta-Structures: Increasing Scales of Commercial Development
by B. Cannon Ivers (MLA 16’) and Mark Jongman-Sereno (MLA '17, MArch '17) Working within the…
The Phantom Projective
by Iman Fayyad (MArch '16) This thesis is an investigation of the production of form…
The Project on South Florida and Sea Level
South Florida and Sea Level: Adaptive Strategies for Green Infrastructure, Landscape Ecology, and Cultural Heritage…
Borders: Ocean as Platform
by B. Cannon Ivers (MLA '16) This speculative project examines the perceived borders between land, sky…
A Sustainable Future for Exuma: Environmental Management, Design, and Planning
This multi-year ecological planning project is a collaboration among the Government of The Bahamas, the…
Mexican Cities Initiative
The Mexican Cities Initiative (MCI) at the Harvard Graduate School of Design is an emerging…
Transforming Urban Transport—The Role of Political Leadership
Harvard University's Graduate School of Design is hosting Transforming Urban Transport—The Role of Political Leadership,…
The Epistemological Condition of the Magazine: Arquitecturas Bis and its Editorial Board (1974-1985)
by Alejandro Valdivieso (MDes HPD '16) Valdivieso's research, developed between Madrid (UPM) and Cambridge (Harvard), focuses…
Design for Recovery: Fieldwork in Nepal & Somalia
During January of 2016, a group of GSD students travelled to Nepal and Kenya, to…
RESHIM: Rethinking Social Housing in Mexico
RESHIM is a multifaceted project focused on two central research components: 1) report on…
Health and Places Initiative
Who We Are This project has had two phases. The first phase of the Health and…
Seaport: Surface + Edge Indeterminacy
by Diana Jih (MLA '18) Boston Seaport, existing pier section Serial section study, models, perspective…
Acupuncture: Renovation of Franklin Park
by Jiawen Chen (MLA '18) This studio, the first semester in the Landscape Core sequence,…
Musical Box: The Well-Tempered House and the Hollowed Column
by Daniel Quesada Lombo (MArch '17) The project reconfigures the horizontal patio house into a…
Sound by Time
by Andrea Carrillo (MDes ADPD '17) and Marielsa Castro (MDes ADPD '17) We conceive time as a continuum,…
5,127
by Andrea Carillo Iglesias (MDes ADPD '17) 5,127 explores the body as an agent. Interested…
Counterordinance: A Manifesto on Maintenance
by Cali Pfaff (MLA '14) recipient of American Society of Landscape Architects 2015 Student Award…
Productive Conservation: Utilizing Landscape Ecology and Precision Agriculture Towards Land-Water Conservation
by Sourav Kumar Biswas (MLA '16) and Flavio Sciaraffia (MLA '15) recipients of American Society of…
Celosía Cosida
by Kritika Dhanda, Alkistis Mavroeidi, and Jake Rudin (all MDes ‘16) How can we create…
Wanderers
by Cannon Ivers (MLA '16), Devin Dobrowolski (MLA '16) and Mary Catherine Miller (MLA '16), winners…
Imagine the Barracks of Pion: Developing the Edge of the Park of Versailles
by Zheming (Taro) Cai (MLA '15) recipient of American Society of Landscape Architects Student Award…
99 White Balloons
by INVIVIA (comprising Harvard Graduate School of Design professors and recent alumni) recipient of 2015 Field Constructs…
Harvard Mellon Initiative: Reconceptualizing the Urban
“Reconceptualizing the Urban” is the title of a four-year investigation of urban studies undertaken by…
Ayer’s City Hub and Riverfront
by Emma Schnur (MUP '16), Laurel Schwab (MUP '16), Nina Phinouwong (MLA/MUP '16)…
Toward Buildings that Work: Reusing Design-Phase Energy Models for Operations-Phase Improvements
Too frequently today's energy-efficient building designs fall far short of performance expectations. Yet, most building…
Latent (e)Scapes
by Christina Leigh Geros (MLA/MAUD '15) recipient of Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study’s…
Reenactment
by Qinqin Wu (MDes '15) Contemporary types of reenactments challenge the prevalent view that conservation…
Airborne
by Clementine Jang (MLA '16), Michelle Shofet (MLA '16) and Jia Joy Hu (MLA '17) How…
Real-World Energy Model Calibration
by Holly Samuelson This research evaluates the accuracy of 18 design-phase building energy models…
Design and Simulation Workflow of an Office Building in New Delhi, India
by Palak Gadodia (MDes EE ’16), Huishan He (MDes EE ’16), Rufei Wang (MDes RR ’16),…
FITNESS
by Kaley Blackstock (MArch '15) The body is a thermal machine, constantly negotiating the environmental…
Uncork : Augmenting the wine tasting experience
Uncork is a project developed by Kritika Dhanda (MDes ADPD ’16), Alkistis Mavroeidi (MDes Tech…
Public Spaces, Private Lives: Encoding Environments to Incite Civil Courtesies
by Jen Krava (MDes '15) This project investigates the issue of violence against women and…
Francis D. Pastorius’ Garden: A Botanical Cosmos in a “Howling Wilderness” (c. 1683–1719)
by Miranda Mote (MDes HPD ‘15) Francis D. Pastorius described Pennsylvania as Germany’s howling wilderness,…