Tag: Energy Efficiency
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Designing for Twilight Years: Sustainable Senior Living
My design proposal seeks to create harmonious, integrated spaces for elderly communities that promote intergenerational interaction through elements of social sustainability and material sustainability. School of Architecture | Sustainable Environmental Systems, SES Student: Nia Starr Faculty: Tetsu Ohara This image features a design proposal for senior living with a public campus, renewable energy resources, and…
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Shift Train
Rail transport is the most environment-friendly way to travel. Allowing for multiple configurations and options for both solo and group travelers, the design of Shift Train maximizes the train’s capacity and prevents underutilization of space. With thoughtful material selection and pre-fabrication the train becomes more sustainable with durable and easily replaceable components. Throughout Shift Train,…
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Delta
DELTA is an intelligent campus street lamp that uses solar panels to provide clean energy and store it to cope with different weather conditions. It is also equipped with light and motion sensors that automatically adjust the lighting mode according to the surrounding brightness and pedestrian activity. These intelligent features help DELTA address issues such…
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Sustainability on a Roof
This project is targeted towards areas of consumption on Pratt Institute’s campus that are currently linear but can become a circular metabolic system including electricity consumption, use of natural waste and water consumption and also provision of green space. The areas of implementation for this project would be Pratt Institute’s Main Campus specifically the Dining…
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Urban Farmer Cohousing
Historically, Bedford-Stuyvesant has been considered a food desert. Typically, initiatives that aim to reduce food insecurity are led by outside groups without input from the community, this project proposes increasing quality food access through urban farming at a commercial scale run by and for residents of Bed-Stuy. Our design proposes a ground floor commercial farmer’s…
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Illuminated Shadow
For a showroom of layering structures, the amount of layering materials and the sustainability of material itself would be the first consideration. Also, lighting effect and transparency would be the key success to interior environments. In this project, theater scrim has been applied, achieving maximum of space effects with minimum material and econoomical expanse. The…
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A Journey of Form
School of Design | Graduate Interior DesignStudent: Linh NguyenFaculty: Tetsu Ohara Environmental sustainability was a prime concern at every stage of the design, from choosing a design language that would translate to minimal waste generated in production, to applying the display system to the site in a way that incorporates existing features and works with…
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Around the Clock
School of Design | Graduate Interior DesignStudent: Zhen Li The project converts idle parking garages into affordable housing, thereby solving the housing crisis in big cities. Redefining the temporal boundaries and contingencies of interior space can transform machine-centric civil infrastructure from an instrument of class stratification to a humane environment of socioeconomic inclusion. The project…