Buildings are responsible for consuming 40%-60% of all electricity in the U.S., mainly for space heating, space cooling, water heating, and interior lighting.

Tasked with designing an iconic university laboratory building in the middle of a 17,000 acre forest in Clemson, SC (USA), this project used biomimetic principles as a design driver and, more importantly, to reduce the building’s energy use in the interests of forest stewardship.

This project was done as a partnership with classmate Xiaokang He and structural assistance came from Professor Bernhard Sill.