Featured Image: Kensington Creative and Performing Arts High School
The Kensington Creative and Performing Arts High School provides bright and healthy learning environments for students of the surrounding, distressed Philadelphia neighborhood. Natural daylighting is...
View ArticleFeatured Image: Rosie Joe
This off-the-grid house was designed for Rosie Joe, a single mother of two living in the Navajo Nation in southern Utah. Designed and built by eight students working for DesignBuildBLUFF, the house...
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Swatch Profile: Side Daylighting
The 2030 Palette is an interactive web platform containing a set of principles and actions, called Swatches, for the planning and design of sustainable and resilient buildings and communities...
View ArticleFeatured Image: White Roof and Skylights on Las Vegas Walmart
As part of a corporate energy conservation strategy, Walmart employs white roofs on its stores. These so called “Cool Roofs” reflect the sun’s heat, minimizing the heat absorbed by the roof in summer...
View ArticleFeatured Image: Air
Each dwelling unit in Air, a 37 story residential tower in Queensland, Australia, has expansive glazing that admit high levels of natural daylight and provide sweeping views of the nearby beach and...
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Case Study: The Bullitt Center
The Bullitt Center / © Nic Lehoux Written by Francesca Desmarais / Architecture 2030 The 2030 Palette is a set of distinct actions – or Swatches – for the planning and design of environmentally...
View ArticleFeatured Image: The Village, Watergate Bay
The Village at Watergate Bay is a community of beach-side holiday homes in Cornwall, UK. The elongated rectangular shape of this two-floor condo project not only maximizes the south façade to solar...
View ArticleFeatured Image: Strohhaus Braun-Dubuis
This small family retreat in the mountains of Switzerland is very well insulated, constructed of jumbo straw bales, and employs a passive heating system — only a small back-up stove is needed to...
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Swatch Profile: Direct Gain: Glazing
The 2030 Palette is an interactive web platform containing a set of principles and actions, called Swatches, for the planning and design of sustainable and resilient buildings and communities...
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Delving Deeper into the 2030 Palette
First Release of In-Depth Information Pages: A detailed look at transit, ventilation, heating, and cooling This week, seven “In-Depth Information Pages” were published in the 2030 Palette, providing a...
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