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Headshot of Michelle Delk Story Spring 2025 Lecture Series Opens January 22 January 9, 2025
PSK ACADIA 2024 Story The PSL Lab’s Teng Teng, Yefan Zhi, and Masoud Akbarzadeh win Best Paper Award (Runner-up) at ACADIA 2024 Conference, Banff Alberta December 1, 2024
Two researchers pouring hydrogel into a protoype Story Weitzman Faculty Receive NSF Award for Graduate Student Training Program Bridging Engineering and Architecture November 30, 2024
Physical Prototype Setting and Details Work Dynamic Insulated Shutter System for a Double-Layer Building Façade: a Case Study with Physical Prototype
Solar panels on roof of white suburban house Story Research at Weitzman: Sanya Carley on Residential Solar November 7, 2024
View of Pavilion from PCAM Work GHG Emissions Assessment University of Pennsylvania Health System
Concrete building under construction Story Toward Carbon-Negative Architecture September 26, 2024
panel on the carbon storage potential of building materials Story Roads to Removal symposium panel discussion: buildings as carbon sinks September 18, 2024
Penn researchers worked with North10, a nonprofit in North Philadelphia, to bring a prototype cooling shelter to Hunting Park one day in August, an opportunity for community members to provide feedback and learn about the health impacts of heat. (Image: Ji Yoon Bae) Story PhD Architecture graduate group faculty Dr. Dorit Aviv, Heat Islands and the Thermal Lab. Extract from “Testing a novel, community-driven response to heat islands in Philadelphia" by Erica Moser September 17, 2024
University of Pennsylvania past and current students and researchers meet at SimBuild 2024 conference in Colorado. Story PhD Candidate Zherui Wang and Thermal Architecture Lab (TAL) researchers present at IBPSA-USA SimBuild 2024 on building thermal mass July 30, 2024
Max Hakkarainen Presentation Story In Their Own Voice: Profiles in PhD Architecture Research, Max Hakkarainen, Ph.D. Candidate April 12, 2024
Sanya Carley 2 Story Q&A: Sanya Carley, Presidential Distinguished Professor of Energy Policy and City Planning April 10, 2024
book chap Story Recent book Chapter for Springer Nature by Dr. Mogas-Soldevila is out on "Low Energy Adaptive Biological Material Skins from Nature to Buildings" January 31, 2024
Composite image of two people Story Spring 2024 Lectures Series Opens January 18 January 12, 2024
Anwar Basunbul Defense 3 Story Public Defense | Anwar Basunbul (PhD Architecture): "Unlocking Climate Synergy" January 6, 2024
Group of people in business attire seated in front of audience Story At COP28, Penn Delegation Shares Wide-Ranging Knowledge and Builds Connections December 20, 2023
BlockPenn Work BlockPenn: Distributed Energy Monitoring and Environmental Sensing Network Using Blockchain/IoT Infrastructure
Polyhedral Structures Lab Story PhD ARCHITECTURE TALKS LABCRAWL _visits with students and faculty of its (4) research labs October 8, 2023
Simulating invisible light Work Simulating invisible light: a model for exploring radiant cooling’s impact on the human body using ray tracing
Raising Public Awareness on Climate Change: Spotlight on Ecologically Sensitive Urban Places - Panel Discussion Story Panel Discussion: Raising Public Awareness on Climate Change: Spotlight on Ecologically Sensitive Urban Places with Kelly Kennedy, Joshua Mosley, and Simon Richter moderated by Genie Birch September 1, 2023
Lattice tower stands over a desert cityscape Story Weitzman Launches Online Design for Sustainability Certificate for Professionals July 26, 2023
Megaregions Studio Book Cover Work Power/Practice/Place: Responding to Vulnerability, Philly to Baltimore Studio Book
Masoud Akbarzadeh of the Weitzman School of Design leads a multidisciplinary group of architectural designers, structural engineers, computer scientists, and more in his Polyhedral Structures Laboratory. He explores ways in which polyhedral geometries that frequently occur in nature can be used to make stronger and lighter structures, all while using fewer materials. Akbarzadeh discusses a recent study drawing inspiration from dragonfly wings. (Image: iStock / yanikap) Story Natural structures can give rise to stronger, lighter systems July 18, 2023
Photo of the US delegation – five representatives from US Department of State and US Department of Housing and Urban Development and 14 non-governmental representatives drawn from the design professions, philanthropy, academia, and local government. Story Weitzman Faculty, Staff and Alums at United Nations Habitat Assembly in Nairobi, Kenya June 23, 2023
CSAP 3.0 waterfall diagram Work Carbon and Sustainability Action Plan (CSAP) 3.0
A Sankey plot to depict the number of correct and incorrect predictions classified by the BNN model. Work Adaptive behavior and different thermal experiences of real people: A Bayesian neural network approach to thermal preference prediction and classification
Diagram of ozone and building envelope Work Impacts of building envelope design on indoor ozone exposures and health risks in urban environments
Schematic overview of the IEQ and energy monitoring system. Work Blockchain + IoT sensor network to measure, evaluate and incentivize personal environmental accounting and efficient energy use in indoor spaces
Test Ger Work Cooking, Heating, Insulating Products and Services (CHIPS) for Mongolian ger
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