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Join Mark Gardner, William Braham, and Achilles Kallergis for a conversation about the Ger for the 21st century that will focus on William’s work with the Center for Environmental Building + Design (CEBD) at the University of Pennsylvania he has been developing for the last 4 years. That project grew into a collaboration with UNICEF, Arc’teryx, North Face, and KieranTimberlake Architects to test new construction assemblies and evaluate the thermal behavior of ger over time.
Starting in 2017, the Center for Environmental Building + Design at Penn began working with the Mongolian non-profit GerHub to audit the comfort and energy use of a selection of buildings in the ger district of Ulaanbaatar and a ger that was built in Philadelphia. Ger are the traditional, tent-like dwellings of the Mongolian herder nomads (called Yurts in Russian), and roughly 60% of the residents of the capital city live there in a combination of ger and self-built rigid frame houses.
The results of that year successfully demonstrated that improved ger could be heated with electricity for lower cost than with coal and wood. Those improvements were applied to 200 ger the following year in Bayankhongor, a regional city, using an affordable package of improvements developed by a team at the Mongolian University of Science and Technology.
Presented by The School of Constructed Environments at Parsons School of Design.
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Dr. William Braham, FAIA is a Professor of Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania, where he served as Chair from 2008 to 2011, and is currently Director of the Master of Environmental Building Design and Director of the TC Chan Center for Building Simulation and Energy Studies. He has worked on energy and architecture for over 30 years as a designer, consultant, researcher, and author of numerous articles and books.
He recently published Architecture and Systems Ecology: Thermodynamic Principles for Environmental Building Design, in three parts (2015). He has also co-edited Architecture and Energy: Performance and Style (2013) and Energy Accounts: Architectural Representations of Energy, Climate, and the Future (2016).
Achilles is the Director of the Cities and Migration Project at the Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility. In this role, he coordinates the Research Platform on Cities, Migration and Membership — a collaboration of The New School and fifteen research institutions from around the world.
His research focuses on urbanization, migration and mobility in rapidly growing cities. Specifically, it explores how locally-generated data can provide new evidence on mobility patterns and contribute to improving living conditions in low-income urban settings through better provision of housing and services. In his research, he has collaborated with transnational community networks Slum/Shack Dwellers International and the Asian Coalition for Housing Rights.
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