Human-Building Interaction
Our research has highlighted the challenges of understanding, simulating, and designing for the complex interactions between…
Topic Health
Health can be a powerful lens for analyzing design and planning priorities. Investigations of the many links between health and the built environment—from air quality and food access to housing and mobility—reveal the power of design to support health and healing in preemptive and progressive ways.
Remesys: Reanimating Emotional System
by Saif Haobsh (MDE ’19), Erin McLean (MDE ’19) Aging in place requires distinct kinds…
Miami Resilience: Affordability and Health
Jesse M. Keenan
This advanced research seminar in Miami, Florida (USA) is thematically focused at the intersection of…
Lauren Friedrich (MArch ’16) on connections between architecture, physical movement, and health
Lauren Friedrich (MArch ’16) has always been interested in physical fitness, the mechanics of the…
Well, Well, Well
Health, and the information around it, is messy. As are our bodies and the systems…
Living and Working in Phytoremediating Brownfield Sites, Creating Healthier Environments than Is the Norm in Urban Conditions
by Jane Philbrick (MDes CC ’16) Phytoremediation, a remedial technique using living plant…
Health and Places Initiative
Who We Are This project has had two phases. The first phase of the Health and…
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…
Kumbh Mela
The Kumbh Mela is a Hindu religious festival that occurs every twelve years at the…
Slope: Intercept
by Sara Hendren (MDes ’13) My ongoing project, Slope : Intercept,…