Environmental Design
1 - Hero Image
Habitat/Home is a home renovation system that supports the dweller’s renovation process while transforming the suburban house into a cradle-to-cradle organism. Through infrastructure changes and new material sciences, the home will be able to... More
Animation
2 - The Pitch
This video animation explains my Thesis by breaking it down into 4 parts: The Problem (00:00-01:37) Our Successful History (01:38-02:11) The Job To Be Done (02:12-02:26) The Solution (02:26-06:25)
Environmental Design
3 - Interior Perspective
Through its mycelium-based construction process, the interior of the suburban home is transformed into an organic space that is soft to the touch and celebrates the imperfections of nature. As natural light floods the space through the... More
Environmental Design
4 - Design Vignette: Habitat/Hearth
The Habitat/Hearth takes the kitchen island and gives it an off-grid twist. The hearth is a large composting space that uses a plastic-consuming mycelium to break down both synthetic and organic household waste. When someone purchases the... More
Environmental Design
5 - Design Vignette: Habitat/Aperture
Habitat/Aperture is a glass-free window alternative. Glass is made from sand, which is a finite resource, and since we use it in most of our construction (concrete, roads, windows, electronics, etc.), we are running out. Natural light is imperative... More
Environmental Design
6 - Concept: The Upcycle
The concept I use to depict my thesis is Upcycle, the continuous cradle-to-cradle process where one organism’s waste becomes the nutrients to create something else. Think of a forest floor; fruit falls off a tree, and a fox comes along to eat it.... More
Environmental Design
7 - Thesis and Typology
I intend to develop a cradle-to-cradle design formula that utilizes regenerative design to divert construction and demolition waste in renovations. As homeowners take steps to renovate inefficient and wasteful suburban houses into restorative... More
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8 - The Problem
When researching for my thesis, I explored the following problems: 1. Embodied Carbon Carbon is emitted at every stage of a building's construction: the extraction of resources, the processing of resources into building materials, the... More
Environmental Design