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Structural Bamboo Building Codes: Catalysts for Industry, Research, and Construction Technology
On April 16, 2016, a magnitude 7.8 earthquake destroyed over 35,000 homes along the Pacific coast of Ecuador, leaving...
Structural Bamboo Building Codes: Catalysts for Industry, Research, and Construction Technology
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Morphogenic Spatial Analysis: A Novel Approach for Visualizing Volumetric Urban Conditions and Generating Analytical Morphology
This investigation explores the simultaneous mapping of environmental and socioeconomic conditions for the volumetric...
Morphogenic Spatial Analysis: A Novel Approach for Visualizing Volumetric Urban Conditions and Generating Analytical Morphology
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Backyard Housing Boom: New Markets for Affordable Housing and the Role of Digital Technology
In an effort to address California’s affordable housing shortage, lawmakers recently passed statewide legislation...
Backyard Housing Boom: New Markets for Affordable Housing and the Role of Digital Technology
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Mixed Reality Visualizations of Urban Data
As a consequence of inexpensive sensors, ubiquitous tracking devices, and abundant digital storage, by 2019 smarter...
Mixed Reality Visualizations of Urban Data
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Delta Urbanism: Aligning Adaptation with the Protection and Restoration Paradigm in Coastal Louisiana
Increasing resilience and adaptive capacity to climate change through hazard mitigation and social capacity building...
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Climate-Adaptive Volume: Solving the Motion Envelope of a Reconfigurable Cooling Aperture for Desert Climate
Through several prototypes of a roof aperture for passive cooling in a desert climate, the relationships between...
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The Impact of Measurement Research on Prefabrication and Modulation in SOM’s Postwar Housing and Office Buildings
Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill (SOM) committed to innovations in prefabrication and modulation of construction in...
The Impact of Measurement Research on Prefabrication and Modulation in SOM’s Postwar Housing and Office Buildings
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Profiling Occupancy Patterns to Calibrate Urban Building Energy Models (UBEMs) Using Measured Data Clustering
Uncertainty in predicting occupancy patterns leads to discrepancies in simulated building energy when compared...
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Experiments Toward Hyper-Local Reverse Heat Flow Assemblies
Latitudo Borealis is a project that develops an innovative cold-climate wall assembly that combines new passive...
Experiments Toward Hyper-Local Reverse Heat Flow Assemblies
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From Instrument to Architecture: Environmental Models as Design Tools
This paper revisits a case study in the history of technology, Étienne-Jules Marey’s 1900–1902 wind tunnel...
From Instrument to Architecture: Environmental Models as Design Tools