Image © CASE
Image © dbox
CASE, launched in 2008, brings architects from SOM together with RPI architecture faculty and researchers in biochemistry, computer and cognitive sciences; economics; and structural, environmental, and aerospace engineering. The purpose, says Dyson, is to leverage insights derived from long-term research in fields like nanotechnology and biotechnology “into transformative new technologies for buildings, and accelerate the times of deployment to actual test beds.