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The Role of Circular Materials and Construction Practices in Reducing Carbon Emissions
Architectural Record: Architectural Record explores the work of Architecture Assistant Professor Felix Heisel's Circular Construction Lab in supporting the reuse and recycling of materials at their highest utility and value.
Are Buildings Designed to Die? How Circular Construction Could Save Our Cities.
Better Buildings for Humans: In the podcast episode for Better Buildings for Humans, Assistant Professor Felix Heisel, Director of Cornell's Circular Construction Lab, explores how designing buildings for disassembly can reduce emissions, conserve resources, and advance a more circular, resilient built environment.
Three New Designer-Led Initiatives are Making Circular Economies a Reality
The Architect's Newspaper: Architecture Assistant Professor Felix Heisel's Circular Construction Lab is harnessing building technology and design to reimagine construction as an ally for regenerative design.
The Future Inside and Out: Cornell Biennial Blankets Campus This Fall
Spilling out beyond gallery walls and across campus, the 2022 Cornell Biennial "Futurities, Uncertain" is well underway and features work by AAP faculty, students, alumni, and guests.
11/4–11/14 Marta H. Wisniewska and Felix Heisel: MycoShell
Visit an installation that exhibits the potential of biological self-growing and adaptive building materials toward a collaborative future of the digital and the analog.
A Circular Built Environment in the Digital Age
Architecture Assistant Professor Felix Heisel and former Circular Construction Lab researcher Joseph McGranahan co-authored an included chapter covering digital tools for circularity evaluation in this open-access publication.
Remaking the Built Environment by Reimagining Waste
CRP Associate Professor Jennifer Minner and the Just Places Lab team at Cornell AAP map local sites demonstrating the challenges of creating circular construction economies and the opportunities there are in reusing building materials.
5/16 AIA New York: Circularity in Motion: Design, Policy, and Construction in Dialogue
Felix Heisel, Assistant Professor of Architecture and Director of the Circular Construction Lab, will speak at this full-day symposium in New York City exploring the future of circular economy practices.
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Felix Heisel
Felix Heisel is an Assistant Professor and the Director of the Circular Construction Lab at Cornell University's College of Architecture, Art, and Planning. He is a faculty fellow at the Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability and a graduate field member in architecture, systems engineering, and matter design computation. Heisel is a licensed architect in Germany and partner of 2hs Architekten und Ingenieur PartGmbB, an office specializing in the development of circular prototypologies. Heisel's scholarship focuses on a systemic redesign of the built environment as a material depot of endless use and reconfiguration...
