Colloquium: Wood Urbanism
From under-considered thermal properties to emerging manufacturing possibilities to forestry regimes to larger ecosystem and…
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.
From under-considered thermal properties to emerging manufacturing possibilities to forestry regimes to larger ecosystem and…
Unfamiliar with many of the properties and methods of working with ceramics—armed only with a…
First Prize Winner of the 3rd LIXIL International University Architectural Competition Designed by…
by Julie Paul Brown (MDes ’14) Multi-wythe (or “mass”) brick construction has been familiar to…
by Jennifer A. Haugh (MDes ’14) Exploring and analyzing the potential for artistic interventions with…
Matan Mayer’s MateriaLEASE project is a finalist in the 2014 Deans’ Design Challenge.
Ecosistema Urbano, the firm of Belinda Tato and Jose Luis Vallejo (both design critics in urban planning and design), just won the Silver Award of the Taipei International Design Award 2013 in the Public Space Design category . Their "Energy carousel" is the creative embodiment of a more sustainable approach to urbanism.
The built environment is not only the culprit of major energy consumption and CO2 emissions worldwide, its construction also uses up the majority of material resources of our planet. Yet we continue to evaluate building efficiency largely based on energy consumption, ignoring embodied energy, CO2…
by Savina Romanos (MAUD ’13) and Daia Stutz (MLAUD ’13) In October 1949, Mao…
The Solar Envelope is a three dimensional envelope on a site which ensures adjacent neighbors…