A project by recent MSD-EBD graduates Suryakiran Prabhakaran, Abinayaa Perezhilan, and Di Sung will be featured at the London Design Biennale in June 2021.
An energy-efficient datacenter entitled Sanctuary of Datum, the design was produced in a 2020 studio led by Dorit Aviv, assistant professor of architecture and director of the Thermal Architecture Lab.
The project will be featured in the Design in an Age of Crisis Gallery, showcasing "radical design thinking from the world’s design community, the public and young people."
"In the era of digital preeminence, we look towards design as a medium to modify the environmental impacts of energy hogging data centers," write the students of their submission. "The project challenges the norms of how we perceive space, materiality and form through designing for climate. Intricately merging geometries, building systems and landscape to seek regeneration."
The Master of Science in Design with a concentration in Environmental Building Design (MSD-EBD) is an advanced, three-semester, research-based degree. It is designed for architects seeking to develop new approaches to environmental design.
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