dc.contributor.advisor | Lawrence Sass and James Wescoat. | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Podder, Ankur. | en_US |
dc.contributor.other | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Architecture. | en_US |
dc.coverage.spatial | n-us-me | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-01-23T16:56:35Z | |
dc.date.available | 2020-01-23T16:56:35Z | |
dc.date.copyright | 2019 | en_US |
dc.date.issued | 2019 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/123560 | |
dc.description | This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections. | en_US |
dc.description | Thesis: S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture, 2019 | en_US |
dc.description | Cataloged from student-submitted PDF version of thesis. | en_US |
dc.description | Includes bibliographical references (pages 102-105). | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | I propose a digital design-production system to easily assemble, selectively disassemble, and reassemble novel passive solar walls. The problem statement I tackle is that all houses in Vinalhaven Island, Maine have high home-heating energy burden due to their thermally weak thin walls. Substituting thin walls with typical passive solar walls is a known solution, however such walls would be inundated with (i) high embodied energy in non-recoverable materials, (ii) high complexity of construction, and (iii) high cost of construction and renovation. Facilitated by a CAD-CAM interface, I develop a methodological framework called Design for Assembly, Disassembly, and Reassembly to lower all three parameters efficiently. I demonstrate both the framework and its outcomes by rapidly prototyping a few study models of passive solar walls. I speculate on the urban implications of a widespread integration of walls with reduced and recoverable material embodied energy. In order to effectively visualize this, the system boundary of urbanism scales up from a wall to a house, to two adjacent houses, and finally to five houses in Vinalhaven's downtown. I claim that successful on-site substitution of today's standard walls with Digital Passive Solar Walls will accelerate Vinalhaven's island homes toward a holistic energy transition. Broadly, I encourage professionals in the building industry to embrace such digital systems to recover material embodied energy locked in their designed artifacts. | en_US |
dc.description.statementofresponsibility | by Ankur Podder. | en_US |
dc.format.extent | 110 pages | en_US |
dc.language.iso | eng | en_US |
dc.publisher | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | en_US |
dc.rights | MIT theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed, downloaded, or printed from this source but further reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. | en_US |
dc.rights.uri | http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582 | en_US |
dc.subject | Architecture. | en_US |
dc.title | Embodied energetics : a digital design-production system for passive solar walls in Vinalhaven Island, Maine | en_US |
dc.type | Thesis | en_US |
dc.description.degree | S.M. | en_US |
dc.contributor.department | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Architecture | en_US |
dc.identifier.oclc | 1135864727 | en_US |
dc.description.collection | S.M. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture | en_US |
dspace.imported | 2020-01-23T16:56:34Z | en_US |
mit.thesis.degree | Master | en_US |
mit.thesis.department | Arch | en_US |