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…
A Slight yet Reliable Breeze
by Aaron Mendonca (MDes ’17), Sarah Kantrowitz (MArch ’17), and Jerónimo van Schendel Erice (MArch…
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…