Spring 2016 University of Pennsylvania – School of Design
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Spring 2016 University of Pennsylvania – School of Design
Homemade is better.
2,7 ft3 of wood don’t look so bad (part 1) 2,7 ft3 of wood don’t look so bad (part 2)
Ludendo Docere
Choosing A Roof. A research
1. Urban Density and Urban Heat Island Effect – From anthropogenic heat to Heat Island Reduction (HIR) Large cities and metropolitan areas are hotter than surrouding suburban and rural areas. Urbanization of ever increasing areas is replacing natural vegetated surfaces, such as grass and tress, with non-reflective, water resistant impervious surfaces that absorb high percentage of theContinue reading “Choosing A Roof. A research”
The Varieties of Building E[m]ergy Intensity – Dr.Braham
One of the enduring problems of environmental building design is the determination of meaningful norms or points of comparison for evaluation. Building energy use is typically normalized to floor area and compared to buildings of similar types of use in similar climates. This provides a valuable tool for analyzing building operation, but reveals little aboutContinue reading “The Varieties of Building E[m]ergy Intensity – Dr.Braham”
A gallery in grey tones.
It always comes a time when an illustrator has to take decisions, push the tip of his pen on the paper and dirty up the white space in front of him. If it is a complicated line he is facing, he will feel kind of stuck, afraid of ruin his work. Frozen, he will startContinue reading “A gallery in grey tones.”
Milano, home renovation – Work in progress
Milano, Via Chieti, 5 – 35 mq apartment
Bioclimatic Hybrids
The project begins with the challenge of reusing and restoring an existing, vacant brownfield site located on the fringe between Seattle’s industrial district to the south and the heart of the city to the north.