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Architecture, AI, and the future of building design.
Urban heat islands: how building layout affects the temperature of a city.
How urban heat islands form and what architects can do through building layout, orientation, and material choices. A guide to climate-conscious early-stage design.
Norway is loosening its daylight rules. Here is why that makes early daylight analysis more important, not less.
Norway is set to lower its daylight requirement and open an analysis-based route. That flexibility only helps the practices that can prove daylight early, with named metrics.
Buildings that know where they are: a Sustainable Environmental Design philosophy
Vernacular buildings have always known where they are. Sustainable Environmental Design brings that intelligence back into the modern design process, at the speed of sketching.
How a small Polish practice designs housing that passes, while they sketch
Chill House architecture office checks Poland's 3-hour sunlight rule and courtyard wind live, at the sketch. Here is how moving analysis forward changed their workflow.