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…
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.
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…
Horizon House
First Prize Winner of the 3rd LIXIL International University Architectural Competition Designed by…
(Re)Considering Energy and Existing Multi-wythe Brick
by Julie Paul Brown (MDes ’14) Multi-wythe (or “mass”) brick construction has been familiar to…
"Please in My Back Yard": Mitigating the aesthetic effects of wind turbines
by Jennifer A. Haugh (MDes ’14) Exploring and analyzing the potential for artistic interventions with…
Deans’ Design Challenge finalist: Matan Mayer
Matan Mayer’s MateriaLEASE project is a finalist in the 2014 Deans’ Design Challenge.