Today's designers have inherited unprecedented global challenges, a legacy which will require radically new ways of fashioning the buildings, places, and landscapes that harbor our diverse ways of life. The College of Environmental Design offers several introductory and advanced programs for those interested in confronting these challenges in the fields of architecture, landscape architecture and environmental planning, urban design, and sustainable city planning. Please visit UC Berkeley's Summer Programs website to view images of student work and learn more about the CED Summer experience.
Design Your Summer! UC Berkeley's College of Environmental Design is Now Accepting Applications
What is Biomass Energy?
With growing awareness of the impact of fossil fuels on the natural environment and their common usage in buildings, architects are increasingly required to specify and accommodate alternative energy sources in their design approaches. Included in this portfolio of progressive energy sources is biomass, a scalable system that combines the usage of raw, sustainable materials with a lower resulting emission of CO2. As a method often heralded as the most transferable alternative to gas and coal, we answer a simple question: what is biomass energy?
Lobster House / Martín Dulanto Arquitecto
Buha|i|rest Restaurant / Roman Plyus
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Architects: Roman Plyus
- Area: 350 m²
- Year: 2020
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Manufacturers: Afteroom, Hans Wagner
Weekend House in Beskydy / Pavel Míček Architects
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Architects: Pavel Miček Architects
- Area: 185 m²
- Year: 2019
Organic Cafe / G8A Architecture & Urban Planning + VUUV Architecture and Interior Design
- Area: 1000 m²
- Year: 2019
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Manufacturers: D'furni, Eco Design, Landco, Nam Phuong home, Tan Long
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Professionals: Etis, Landco Corporation
The Yellow Pavilion / Architecture for Humans
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Architects: Architecture for Humans
- Area: 1000 m²
- Year: 2019
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Manufacturers: Adobe, Google, Greatwood LLC
Asagaya Light Eco House / KH Architects
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Architects: KH Architects
- Area: 103 m²
- Year: 2018
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Manufacturers: LIXIL , Panasonic, Tanita, Woodone, YKK AP
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Professionals: Kishin corporation, Souzou-kei Real estate corporation
Waterfront Botanical Gardens / Perkins and Will
Roquet Coffee Shop / NUA Arquitectures
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Architects: NUA Arquitectures
- Area: 78 m²
- Year: 2019
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Manufacturers: AutoDesk, HAI, Ondacer, Zangra
Instalación Tres Esencias / Albor Arquitectos
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Architects: Albor Arquitectos
- Area: 19 m²
- Year: 2019
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Manufacturers: Eupinca, Metunas, Plycem, Vitral
Fundació Mies van der Rohe – 2020 Programme
This 2020 the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion is activated more than ever as a public platform to dissolve the boundaries between architectural research and the arts, promoting the dissemination of architecture in collaboration with an extensive and varied network of entities and people.
The 2020 program brings together and generates synergies between academia, artistic production and the architectural culture of cities and territories.
Apartment in Largo do Carmo / Aurora Arquitectos
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Architects: Aurora Arquitectos
- Area: 3229 ft²
- Year: 2019
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Manufacturers: A Linha da Vizinha
Students Respond to The School of Architecture at Taliesin's Closure
Last week, The School of Architecture at Taliesin announced the closing of the school after 88 years. Both the school and the Frank Lloyd Wright foundation issued statements on the closure, and now the Student Body has created their own statement outlining the impact of the decision. The news of closure followed the conclusion of a multi-year struggle back in 2017, when the school was approved to maintain its accreditation as an institute of higher learning.
Ada Lovelace Secondary School / A+Architecture
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Architects: A+Architecture
- Area: 5898 m²
- Year: 2019
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Professionals: Calder Ingénierie, Alma Consulting, BTP Consultants, Celsius Environnement, Epsilon
Factors that Transform a Workplace into a Happy Place
It is truly odd how we always find ourselves in a bad mood at work and our productivity keeps decreasing as the week passes by. To be fair, we can’t keep blaming our colleagues, clients, or Monday for our rough day; sometimes it’s the chair we are sitting on, the fluorescent lighting above our computer, or the constant “chugging” sound of the printer near the desk.
Other than the fact that people spend about 70-80% of their time indoors, almost 9 hours of their day are being spent at work; and studies have indicated that the environmental quality of an office has short and long term effects on the comfort, health, and productivity of the people occupying it. While research on the comfort conditions of workplaces is still relatively minimal, we have put together a list of factors that have proved to be highly influential on the comfort of individuals in workplaces.
House Akerdijk / Arjen Reas Architects
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Architects: Arjen Reas Architects
- Area: 130 m²
- Year: 2019
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Manufacturers: Aluk, Cape Cod
Reparametrize Studio and Digital Architects Re-Code Post War Syria
Reparametrize Studio and Digital Architects have created an exhibition combining photography and 360-degree projection mapping, to showcase destroyed cities, part of the 2019/2020 Bi-City Shenzhen Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture. As Ziwar Al Nouri, Founder of Reparametrize Studio stated, the project underlines the different possibilities “when numbers meet Architecture and Culture and help us improve human life and the future of our city”.