Forrest performing at 3pm a talk on future architecture, and will be employing his use of “thermal magic”
http://www.witchinghourfestival.com/speakers/forrest-meggers/
Forrest presents at Symposium at University of Minnesota on (Re)Generative Architecture
Forrest presented on Oct 28th on a panel with Kiel Moe of Harvard GSD and Bill Braham of UPenn. The event titled “Sustainability is Dead: Architecture as a (Re)generator” questioned the role of architecture and the use of sustainability in the field. Forrest presented on the new possibilities for innovation in architecture by changing the design paradigms and perspectives on how heating and cooling should be accomplished in buildings.
Forrest meets with collaborators at Berkeley Center for the Built Environment
Forrest was invited to Berkeley for the annual meeting of the CBE including meetings with former collaborator in Singapore and at Princeton, Jovan Pantelic, in his new role as professional researcher at the Berkeley Center for the Built Environment. Research in advanced sensors, comfort, and radiant heating and cooing were all discussed, and current CHAOS research projects were well-received and many potential collaborations were initiated. Forrest also met with Prof. Ed Arens, who shares a mutual appreciation for the Olgyay research in Princeton in the 50’s and 60’s. Arens will be a Highlight Seminar speaker at the Andlinger Center Feb 8th.
3for2 publications in CTBUH
Paper published on our work in the 3 for 2 project in Singapore
Andlinger Center Tours
Giving explantations of thermal comfort influences of radiant heating and cooling during the tours of our new Andlinger Center building, featuring radiant cooling panels.
Embodied Energy and Design conference
Forrest was an invited speaker at Columbia GSAPP’s Embodied Energy and Design Conference on Earth Day.
He presented a talk, “Useful Life versus Usefulness – Embodied Entropy in an Architecture of Moving Parts,” which will be extended into an upcoming publication based on the conference.
Campus as a Lab Unveiling
Princeton “Campus as a Lab” logo unveiled!
The CHAOS Lab is heavily engaged with leveraging the Princeton Campus as a lab with projects taking data and reacting to many aspects of building energy and exergy use on campus.
CHAOS evaporative cooling research featured in Princeton Engineering
Work collaborating with Elie Bou-Zeid and Howard Stone led by CHAOS researcher Eric Teitelbaum highlighted by Princeton Engineering: http://www.princeton.edu/engineering/building/water
More on the research at the ECCENTRIC page: http://chaos.princeton.edu/ongoing-projects/eccentric-buildings/
Agreement signed for official collaboration on 3-for-2 project in Singapore
We signed an agreement this week to make collaboration official with the ETH Zurich on the “Beyond Efficiency 3-for-2” project in Singapore. Meggers has been involved in the project since its onset, and has now initiated collaboration from his role at Princeton. Work will be carried out evaluating and developing new air conditioning techniques. More info below
http://beyondefficiency.blogspot.com/
http://www.fcl.ethz.ch/project/3for2-beyond-efficiency/
Sustainable Urban Water Transdisciplinary Research Program for Undergraduates
Apply here: https://erams.com/UWIN/urp/
Summer 2016 will be the first year that the Urban Water Innovation Network offers an Undergraduate Research Program (URP). Ten students will be given the opportunity to perform cutting edge, transdisciplinary research of immediate relevance to people in urban areas. Where possible, pairs of students, one in the social sciences and one in the natural sciences / engineering will be placed with a team of mentors in each of the six study regions of the Network: Front Range of Colorado, Mid-Atlantic, Tucson-Phoenix Sun corridor, South Florida, California, Pacific Northwest Cascadia.
The 2016 UWIN URP program will engage students in three strands of activities:
Cutting Edge Independent Research Projects
Working closely with mentor scientists, students will delineate a research question and hypotheses, develop and implement a project, analyze data, give an oral presentation in a formal symposium, and write a research paper.
Reflective Practice and Training Activities
Skill building workshops and seminars will support student learning. Students will participate in virtual scientific writing workshop, transdisciplinary science activities, and online sessions in ethics in natural sciences and engineering, strategies for effective presentations, and future options in study and work.
Transdisciplinary Research Activities in Urban Water Sustainability
Students will explore how to promote sustainable management of urban water systems by working with a team of disciplinary experts. Students will be encouraged to look beyond their own discipline as well. They will participate in workshops and seminars led by experts from different fields. A Forum on Opportunities in Urban Water Sustainability Research and Applications will showcase examples of natural science, engineering, and social science in action.
Students in the 2016 program will receive a stipend of $4,000 plus on-campus or nearby housing, and a food allowance of $400 for the 8 week program. Funds are available for students to get to the kickoff meeting at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Co, and from there to their research site. A small pool of funds is available to help defray the costs of travel back home for those students in need of assistance.
Projects with Meggers CHAOS team:
Urban Energy Water Nexus. Forrest Meggers, Princeton University. One student. The built environment generates the vast majority of both energy and water demand, and the rise in urban populations has concentrated those demands in cities. These demands are intertwined in many complex ways, including the latent energy inherent to water phase change (evaporation and condensation) This is a ripe area of investigation where better characterizations and understanding can make great reductions in the environmental impact at this critical urban energy water nexus. One of the largest energy and water demands is for heating and cooling systems, and these systems are directly impacted by changes in climate. There are many overlooked opportunities to address how local energy and water conditions in urban microclimates both influence and are influenced by climate change. Building and interstitial urban spaces cause in major shifts in temperature and surface and air moisture contents. The UWIN URP student will use novel thermal imaging, distributed sensing, and energy modeling to characterize these variations for the cooling case during the summer looking at the urban fabric of the local campus at Princeton, and also in New York City and Philadelphia. The student will work with Architecture design grad students on methods to render the data in three-dimensional models, as well as developing new techniques to stitch together wide-angle views and photo-spheres of thermal images, a technology currently limited to rather narrow field-of-view lenses. Grad students in engineering and architectural technology will also assist in energy analysis and simulation to estimate and validate the impacts of the temperature and image data recorded on overall energy and water demand for energy systems. The result will be a better characterization of cooling demand and its impact on energy consumption, condensate water production, and latent energy storage and surface exchanges.