Dorit Aviv, Assistant Professor of Architecture, is part of a group of researchers who constructed a radiant cooling pavilion in Singapore, demonstrating a method of cooling people without cooling the air.
Instead, surfaces are chilled, and thermal radiation is used to keep people cool. A thermally transparent membrane is used to prevent unwanted air cooling and condensation, a required precursor to deploying radiant cooling panels without humidity control in tropical environments.
The research team includes Eric Teitelbaum, Kian Wee Chen, Kipp Bradford and Forrest Meggers of Princeton University, Denon Sheppard and Adam Rysanek of University of British Columbia, Jovan Pantelic of UC Berkeley, and Lea Ruefenacht of Singapore-ETH Centre.
This study is now published in the journal of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. View the full article on PNAS website.
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