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.
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…
Edited by Rania Ghosn Energy infrastructures deploy space at a large scale, yet they remain…
Martin Bechthold, Professor of Architectural Technology, and Christoph Reinhart, Associate Professor of Architectural Technology, with…
This project developed a vision of how state-of-the-art computer-based analysis techniques can be effectively used…
Peter Rose’s exhibit used video, line drawings, renderings, and physical models to show how concrete is placed in the landscape to shape building spaces while also capturing and focusing energies essential to each of three very different sites. Used for its robust material qualities and…
Occupying the space between the ground and the tree canopy, the residence provides an unfolding…
Too frequently today’s energy-efficient building designs fall far short of performance expectations. Yet, most building…