Description
MaterialsLAB: "The Great Green Wall" (Required for Habitat students, open to others)
Herwig Baumgartner with Gensler
This seminar will focus on reclaiming sustainability as a relevant contemporary design topic. ?Green architecture? today has been reduced to an engineering problem that is mostly focused on measurable output and performance as the sole criteria for its validity while the aesthetic aspect has been left on the wayside. The seminar will be highly speculative in nature and offer a radical different approach to this topic. Students will work with different processing and modeling tools to explore types of excessive surface morphologies for building envelopes, simulate motion of composite building materials with dynamic properties, and utilize environmental sensors and responsive systems as ways to animate the building envelope.
The project is a pollutant barrier wall that reduces and captures fine particles in the air which pose a major health risk to the population in ur