Solar Sculpting: Building Form and Energy
New York, NY
Under the guidance of Lawrence Blough of GraftWorks and Simone Giostra, IDC Foundation
Published in 2024Inspired by the global and urban implications of ever-changing environmental conflicts, this solar-driven design process explores how form organically emerges from the environment. Form engages with environment and efficiency through a language of light cavities and pocketed facets, sloping building roofs that capture the dynamic movement of sun and shadow, and protrusions of solar thermal surfaces. The method of research-based design demonstrates how a socio-spatial examination of natural systems could produce and influence alternative approaches to not only design environmental and technological systems, but also find its way to the domestic and dwelling environment.
This project and many others culminated into almost four years of continued exploration and experimentation of design's role in climate uncertainty. The research and data from the previous design studios were reiterated and re-represented in more consistent and accurate graphical and analytical languages and are now featured in various research publications, grant competitions, and gallery exhibitions.
Read more:
Pedagogical Experiments in Architecture for a Changing Climate (Routledge, 2024).
2022 IDC Foundation Award
