Hyperbolic Cosines: Recasting Form Finding to Induce Ventilation Performance
We explored the allometric potential of a funicular catenary form to both modulate interior climatic…
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.
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,…
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…
Abductive Architecture
by Alexander Timmer (MArch ’16) Inference or logical reasoning in the design, representation, and dissemination…
Allometric Sake
by Amira Abdel-Rahman (MDes ’17), Gabriel Muñoz Moreno (MDes ’17), and Santiago Serna Gonzalez (MArch/MDes…
Post-disaster Nepal and the power of fieldwork
In the immediate aftermath of the April 2015 Nepal earthquake, Harvard Graduate School of Design…