How can we passively cool buildings?
Performance Ceramics : Evaporative cooling wall
Harvard Graduate School of Design | 2015
Rethinking the role and potential of ceramics in architecture, our design team prototyped and constructed a performative ceramic facade system that passively cools spaces. Water flows through ceramic modules designed for maximum evaporation.
Exploring precedents in nature
Our team studied helical geometries and turbulence patterns within the complex elements of nature. We reinterpreted these forms to create a ceramic module optimized for evaporative cooling.
3d printing prototypes
We developed models to test the walls structural integrity.
Fabricating production molds for ceramic casting
Fabricating hydraulic systems and modules
