main question

How can we viably capture humidity from the air for potable water?

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Contexts Challenges and Opportunities

Interscalar Air-to-Water Metabolism (Anna Dyson & Aletheia Ida)

Perforated Hydrogel Ceiling

Humidity Recuperation for conditioning of Indoor Air (Anna Dyson & Marcel Perez-Pirio)

Hydrogel-based building-envelope integrated membrane concept

Hydrogel-based building-envelope integrated membrane concept for climate resource metabolism and air-to-water fluid exchanges (Ida & Dyson., 2015).

Multiscalar Functionalization of Hygrothermal Behaviors

Schematic Design for Dynamic Facade Systems (Dyson, Ida & Perez-Pirio)

Hygrothermally dynamic building envelopes

Climate responsive adaptive biopolymeric membrane environmental performance criteria for multivalent temporal design conditions (Ida & Dyson., 2015).

Hygrothermal Building Envelope Performance Benefits

Annual Potential Water Collection and Energy Conservation for Cooling Loads.

Synthesis and Characterization of Dynamic Hydrogel Behaviors

(Ida & Dyson et al., 2012; Ida, 2018).

Hydrogel Sorption Process

Programming architectural design criteria into the responsive geometry of dynamic hygrothermal membranes interfacing ambient conditions at the building envelope (Ida & Dyson et al., 2012; Ida, 2018).

Hydrogel Polymeric Membrane

Designing nested responsive skins that interface ambient resources with hygrothermal air quality and comfort needs (Ida & Dyson et al., 2012; Ida, 2018).

Hygrothermally dynamic building envelopes

Enhancing Environmental Control Systems with Intelligent Desiccant Materials for Thermal Comfort, Energy Generation and Water Recuperation (Perez-Pirio & Dyson., 2008).

Contexts Challenges and Opportunities

Interscalar Air-to-Water Metabolism (Anna Dyson & Aletheia Ida)

Perforated Hydrogel Ceiling

Humidity Recuperation for conditioning of Indoor Air (Anna Dyson & Marcel Perez-Pirio)

Hydrogel-based building-envelope integrated membrane concept

Hydrogel-based building-envelope integrated membrane concept for climate resource metabolism and air-to-water fluid exchanges (Ida & Dyson., 2015).

Multiscalar Functionalization of Hygrothermal Behaviors

Schematic Design for Dynamic Facade Systems (Dyson, Ida & Perez-Pirio)

Hygrothermally dynamic building envelopes

Climate responsive adaptive biopolymeric membrane environmental performance criteria for multivalent temporal design conditions (Ida & Dyson., 2015).

Hygrothermal Building Envelope Performance Benefits

Annual Potential Water Collection and Energy Conservation for Cooling Loads.

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Anna Dyson, Aletheia Ida, Jason Vollen, Peter Stark, Rahmi Ozisik, Ryan Gilbert, Marcel Perez-Pirio.

Growth Media Design (2021)

Growth Media Design Within Building-Integrated Green Infrastructure Impacts Indoor Air Bioremediation Performance and Carbon Dioxide Flux Through Water Availability and Plant Development Patterns

Phoebe Mankiewicz, Aleca Borsuk, Christina Ciardullo, Elizabeth Hénaff + Anna Dyson (In preparation 2021)

Industry: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP (SOM)

Academic/National Labs: CEFPAC, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI)

Clean freshwater is an essential ingredient to healthy human life.

How can we viably capture humidity from the air for potable water?

Renewable bio-based circular material economies in timber, post-agricultural by-products and plant-based bioremediation

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DRIPS

DYNAMIC

REGENERATIVE

INTEGRATED

POLYMERIC

SKINS

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Anna Dyson, Aletheia Ida, Jason Vollen, Peter Stark, Rahmi Ozisik, Ryan Gilbert, Marcel Perez-Pirio.

NYSERDA, NYSTAR

Industry: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP (SOM)

Academic/National Labs: CEFPAC, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI)

Phoebe Mankiewicz, Aleca Borsuk, Christina Ciardullo, Elizabeth Hénaff + Anna Dyson (In preparation 2021)

Growth Media Design (2021)

Growth Media Design Within Building-Integrated Green Infrastructure Impacts Indoor Air Bioremediation Performance and Carbon Dioxide Flux Through Water Availability and Plant Development Patterns

The environmentally responsive polymeric membranes regenerate (release water), insulate, and diffuse natural daylighting during the day, while adsorbing humidity and actuating ventilation at night, a combination of strategies appropriate for a hot-humid climate.

The Dynamic Regenerative Integrated Polymeric Skins (DRIPS) system provides a fluctuating building envelope that functionally embeds a material logic that responds passively to diurnal environmental conditions.