Case Studies
Project Brief
Design an environmental concept for a 5000m2 office/startup building. Your project can be located anywhere on earth with urban infills being ideal but optional. If you decide to replace an existing building, you need to justify your choice. When choosing your site, you might consider additional parameters such as neighborhood walkability, spatial proximity to jobs and/or adaptive reuse of existing, underused office space.
To develop the project, go through the following Design Exercises: Net Zero Feasibility Study, Daylight Precedences + Massing Study, Daylight Availability Study, Visual Comfort, Electric Lighting, Thermal Model Setup, EUI Study and HVAC Design. You are welcome/encouraged to add additional work to create a coherent project narrative. This skeleton presentation provides additional tips. Example projects from previous class runs are shown below.
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Claremont Office Park
Office in New York City, R Jia and AJ Su, 2025
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4.464
Office in Boston, J Lieberman and E Washington, 2025
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Dream Studio Office !
Office space in Berkeley, CA, JY Ji and J Hall, 2024
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Building Technologies
Office/startup space in Miami, FL, J Tullis and N E Chavez-Baumberg, 2024
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Terra Casa
Apartment complex in Santa Fe, A Lohana and Y Liu, 2023
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Mount Vernon Housing Cooperative
Apartments in Baltimore, T Skeiky, T Hyo-min King and C Hrabi, 2023
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Tucson, AZ
Office/event space in Tucson, AZ, J Hwang and V Jackow, 2022
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Shark Fins
Office building in Seattle, WA, M Fernandez Feraud, E Willmer-Shiles and S Herb, 2022
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Nakagin 2.0
Parametrizing the metabolist dream, startup space in Tokyo, Japan, S Wolk and N Klimenko, 2021
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Canal Coworking
Co working space in Scottsdale, AZ, S Aulgur, S Ajienka and J Berglund-Brown, 2021
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New Cairo
Office building in Cairo, Egypt, by S Mokhtar and N Tarkhan, 2020
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Infill Alphabet
Office infill in St. Louis, MO, by C Amstutz and J Schnitzler, 2020
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Denver
Office building in Denver, CO, by L McCormick and S Nagpal, 2016