Materials, buildings, landscapes, cities, and urbanization are all overtly connected energy hierarchies that must be lucidly understood as the basis of any design agenda for energy today.
Holly Samuelon (MDes '09, DDes '13), assistant professor of architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, been awarded a grant by Harvard’s Climate Change Solutions Fund, an initiative launched last year by Harvard University President Drew Faust
This multi-year ecological planning project is a collaboration among the Government of The Bahamas, the…
by Justin W. Henceroth (MDes '17) and Ashley C. Thompson (MDes '17) Nepal is struggling to…
by Daniel Quesada Lombo (MArch '17) The project reconfigures the horizontal patio house into a…
Palak Gadodia (MDes EE ’16), Huishan He (MDes EE ’16), Rufei Wang (MDes RR ’16), and…
Cold Spot: Evaporative Cooling through Ceramics, a research-build project that investigates passive cooling strategies developed by the…
by Holly Samuelson This research evaluates the accuracy of 18 design-phase building energy models…
by Palak Gadodia (MDes EE ’16), Huishan He (MDes EE ’16), Rufei Wang (MDes RR ’16),…
by Kaley Blackstock (MArch '15) The body is a thermal machine, constantly negotiating the environmental…
From under-considered thermal properties to emerging manufacturing possibilities to forestry regimes to larger ecosystem and…