Built Environment & Infrastructure

Research focused on sustainable design, energy efficiency, and material development for the built environment and large-scale infrastructure

"The Soft House" model from Building façades that move, textiles that illuminate, Energy Futures, Spring 2013 Credit: KVA MATx

Research

Accelerating 3D printing

Faster fabrication, renewable materials

Urban sustainability

Designing resource-efficient, appealing cities

Building façades that move, textiles that illuminate

A pathway to flexible, resilient architecture

Publications

UMI – An Urban Simulation Environment for Building Energy Use, Daylighting and Walkability

August 2013

Christoph Reinhart

ENERNET: Studying the dynamic relationship between building occupancy and energy consumption

April 2012

Carlo Ratti

Cooking Stoves, Indoor Air Pollution and Respiratory Health in Rural Orissa

August 2008

Esther Duflo

News

The cost of self-driving cars will be the biggest barrier to their adoption

Harvard Business Review

Christoph Reinhart: Applying physics to the design of energy-efficient buildings

Accelerating 3D printing

Faster fabrication, renewable materials

People

Moshe Ben-Akiva Professor

Civil and Environmental Engineering

Richard de Neufville Professor

Institute for Data, Systems, and Society

Olivier de Weck Professor

Aeronautics and Astronautics

David Hsu Assistant Professor

Urban Studies & Planning

Ruben Juanes Associate Professor

Civil and Environmental Engineering

Kent Larson Principal Research Scientist

MIT Media Lab

Leslie Norford Professor

Architecture

Tomás Palacios Professor

Electrical Engineering & Computer Science

Christoph Reinhart Associate Professor

Architecture

Yang Shao-Horn Professor

Mechanical Engineering

Lawrence Susskind Professor

Urban Studies & Planning

Qiqi Wang Associate Professor

Aeronautics and Astronautics

James Wescoat Professor

Architecture

Nicholas Xuanlai Fang Associate Professor

Mechanical Engineering

Meejin Yoon Department Head and Professor

Architecture