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‘Global Warming is Real’: Superstorm Sandy, Stevens and the SU+RE House
Author(s) -
Nastasi John
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
architectural design
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.128
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 1554-2769
pISSN - 0003-8504
DOI - 10.1002/ad.2257
Subject(s) - event (particle physics) , competition (biology) , architectural engineering , climate change , meteorology , history , engineering , geography , ecology , physics , quantum mechanics , biology
With every new extreme‐weather event, climate change becomes harder to deny. When a notorious 2012 hurricane hit Hoboken, New Jersey, academic staff at the city's Stevens Institute of Technology quickly responded with impact studies and by instigating multi‐party dialogue to tackle the issues. The architectural faculty's efforts soon became focused around the SU+RE House, which was to be the winning entry for 2015 in the Solar Decathlon – a student competition to design, build and operate a solar‐powered house, run by the US Department of Energy every two years. Guest‐Editor and Stevens faculty member John Nastasi sets out the project's background and explains how it serves as a new model for architectural teaching.