PROTOTYPING ARCHITECTURE: <br> <strong>THE SOLAR ROOFPOD</strong> <br>AN EDUCATIONAL DESIGN-BUILD RESEARCH PROJECTClose to 75% of primary energy in New York City is used in or for buildings. Amid the many different initiatives being implemented today to increase energy efficiency, it is clear that it is our built urban environment that needs the most improvement. Besides the fact that existing buildings have to be upgraded, the forgotten, interstitial spaces, where improvement can become architecturally tangible, should also be addressed. The project described in

lavishly illustrated with diagrams

Author - Massimo Vignelli

“Good architecture is the creation of a need

Sand to Spectacle The Dubai Mall

Introduction by Sergio Castiglione

// It is the architectural responses to site and climate that infuse the specific designs with character and identity

mostly Jewish from New York and New Jersey

Essay by Jared Curtis

How can we properly acknowledge Philadelphia as our inspiration

Inspired by the concept of the liminal—a state between—this residence is where elements meet

Tyler Chartier

which include the Paustian House