Inaugural Conference of the Harvard GSD Office for Urbanization: “heliomorphism”
Convened by Charles Waldheim with Sergio Lopez-Pineiro and Daniel Ibañez View program online Download…
Topic Energy
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.
On Adapting
by Caio Barboza (MArch ’16) and Sofia Blanco Santos (MArch ’16) — Recipient of the James Templeton…
Heterotic Architecture: Stacks, Chimneys & Chutes
by Joshua Feldman (MArch ’16) — Recipient of the 2016 James Templeton Kelly Prize The…
The Littleton Trials
by David Kennedy (MDes ’16), Jacob Mans (MDes ’16), and Benjamin Peek (MDes ’16)—Recipient of the…
Hyperbolic Cosines: Recasting Form Finding to Induce Ventilation Performance
We explored the allometric potential of a funicular catenary form to both modulate interior climatic…
Show/Flow
by Andrew Keating (MArch ’17 ) and Scott Smith (MArch ’17 ) This project hybridizes…
Horizon House: A Retreat in Nature
Horizon House was developed by a team of eight students at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, and was selected First Place in the 3rd LIXIL International University Architectural Competition, held on April 20, 2013 in Tokyo. The competition focused on the concept of…
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…
A Slight yet Reliable Breeze
by Aaron Mendonca (MDes ’17), Sarah Kantrowitz (MArch ’17), and Jerónimo van Schendel Erice (MArch…
carbonurbanism: projective futures
Chris Reed
Carbon C is ubiquitous—it is one of the primary elements supporting life on earth,…