We were tasked with designing a greenhouse for hobby-level vegetable gardening in Portola Valley, CA that would be as passive as possible.

Modern greenhouse design involves the alignment of several objectives to ensure plant comfort, not unlike multi-objective high-performance building design for human comfort. How do we navigate the complex design space of the greenhouse with modern computational tools?

Selected for poster competition at C3E Women in Clean Energy Symposium 2018, Stanford University.

Related publication:

D. L. Fang, A. Arsano, N. Brown, C. Reinhart, C. Mueller, “Design space exploration for high-performance greenhouse design,” in Proceedings of the International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures (IASS) Symposium, Barcelona, Spain, October 2019.