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…
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.
Energy in Nepal: How has the fuel shortage changed the way people access and use energy?
by Justin W. Henceroth (MDes ’17) and Ashley C. Thompson (MDes ’17) Nepal is struggling to…
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…
GSD Team Participates in IBPSA Student Modeling Competition
Palak Gadodia (MDes EE ’16), Huishan He (MDes EE ’16), Rufei Wang (MDes RR ’16), and…
Multi-disciplinary team wins Urban Heat Island Effect 2015
Cold Spot: Evaporative Cooling through Ceramics, a research-build project that investigates passive cooling strategies developed by the…
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…
Colloquium: Wood Urbanism
From under-considered thermal properties to emerging manufacturing possibilities to forestry regimes to larger ecosystem and…
Terracotta Bricks
Unfamiliar with many of the properties and methods of working with ceramics—armed only with a…