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building by Jamie Yarmoff the Architecture institute at duke tiP y interest in green energy and sustainability began at a young The Duke Smart age, with simple things. For Home incorporates example, my dad encouraged me to unplug a new studentdeveloped green appliances that I wasn’t using in order to technology each year. conserve energy. When I was 12, we had solar panels installed on our roof, and a few years later, we added a geothermal heat pump. Throughout high school, at every opportunity, I focused on green technologies in research papers and projects. For my last summer before college, I knew I wanted to continue to pursue this interest. In an online search for summer programs, I found the Institute of Architecture: Living Green/Building Green offered by Duke University’s Talent Identification Program (Duke TIP), a couple of weeks before the start of the program. My assigned and I knew I’d found the right program for me. I sent off my building was High Tech High Chula Vista in California, which application, excited about the opportunity to think about I found particularly fascinating because it was planned as it “green” from an architectural perspective. I learned of my would have been before the advent of air conditioning. It was acceptance a few weeks later and looked ahead to June. positioned to collect the maximum amount of sunlight on its rooftop solar panels, and it incorporated courtyards so that the area’s prevailing breezes could cool the buildings. Most of the Model Homes Once on campus, I settled into my dorm and quickly made school was lit by sunlight and ventilated and cooled by use of some new friends. When classes started the next day, I liked our windows. Landscaping required little water, all of which was instructor immediately. A professional architect who had studied provided by reclaimed water from the school. On the second around the world, Chuck Krekelberg was the most enthusiastic day of class, I presented my research to my classmates, who in instructor I have ever had. We began with a discussion about turn shared what they had learned about other green buildings renewable energy. As we shared our ideas, I realized that the 28 of around the country. Over the duration of the course, Chuck us brought varying levels of knowledge to this program. Luckily, and his assistants presented several slideshows highlighting other interesting sites from around the world, opening our eyes the program was designed to accommodate all of us. We each arrived in Durham having already completed a to sustainable features we could incorporate in the buildings we brief case study of a green building, an assignment we’d received would conceive later on. M 8 imagine may/Jun 2012 dUKe UniVersiTY pHoToGrApHY

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Imagine Magazine - Johns Hopkins - May/June 2012

Imagine Magazine - Johns Hopkins - May/june 2012
Contents
Big Picture
In My Own Words
Building Green
Learn and Build
Tinkerer’s Dream
The Healing Touch
From Jupiter to the Moon
Building a Better Landmine Detector
Designing the Future
27 Pipes
Better Than Wikinotes
Selected Opportunities & Resources
Exploring Our Political Legacy
Off the Shelf
Word Wise
Exploring Career Options
One Step Ahead
Planning Ahead for College
Students Review
Creative Minds Imagine
Mark Your Calendar
Knossos Games

Imagine Magazine - Johns Hopkins - May/June 2012