Toward a Resilient Architecture
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Title
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Toward a Resilient Architecture
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Description
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Today, sustainability is recognized as a technical problem and is relegated to engineers. However,
the issue of environment and design are so interdependent that one can shape the other. Therefore,
Architects need to get back into the discussion to reclaim the issues of environment and ecology
as inevitable parts of the design. This separation of art from science has its roots in the 17th century
with the debates between Perrault and Blondel which eventually turned into the great split between
architects and engineers in the 18th century. I believe these two topics (environment and
architecture) can reconcile and fall into one category of design in which one architect can navigate
both of them at once.
My project-based thesis, which is focusing on rethinking residential design rules of thumb, states
how sustainability as a tool can update conventional design rules of thumb by which architects
designed houses. Therefore, I propose using computational simulation method to create an updated
chart suggesting vernacular rules of thumb such as building proportion, window to wall ratio,
shading, skylights, façade, and volume, which all vary latitude by latitude. I will then pick up one
location for a final project (A house) on which I will apply my findings. The final product will not
only be an extensive example of a sustainable and vernacular design, but it also will preemptively
enter in the discourse of architecture as a discipline. The thesis which is curiously named “Toward
a resilient architecture”, is an attempt to update the conventional design thinking and eventually to
show how “A house is a sustainable machine for living in”.
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Creator
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YAZDANPANAH, ILIA
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Subject
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Architecture
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Daylight
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Energy
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Environment
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Optimization
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Sustainability
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Architecture
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Architectural engineering
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Contributor
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Howeler, Eric
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Date
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2021-06-11T07:15:06Z
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2021
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2021-05-24
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2021-05
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2021-06-11T07:15:06Z
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Type
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Thesis or Dissertation
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text
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Format
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application/pdf
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application/pdf
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Identifier
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YAZDANPANAH, ILIA. 2021. Toward a Resilient Architecture. Master's thesis, Harvard Graduate School of Design.
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28542630
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https://nrs.harvard.edu/URN-3:HUL.INSTREPOS:37367903
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Language
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en