TENOPY

The Thermal Architecture Lab is proud to present TENOPY: a novel prototype for urban cooling, responding to the Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect. It is a result of a collaboration with the North 10 community organization in North Philadelphia, located in a neighborhood severely affected by UHI and with Penn Nursing, and Penn Engineering, through the Penn4C initiative.

TENOPY is a fully solar-powered, shaded, open-air urban cooling shelter, with a cooling bench, and condensation-free radiant panels that provide sustainable urban cooling.

Student Team: Ji Yoon Bae, Wayne Chang, Hanzhong Luo (Thermal Architecture Lab); Elizabeth Esan (School of Arts and Sciences)

System Engineering: Eric Teitelbaum, AIL Research

Community Partners: North10, Philadelphia

Faculty Collaborators: Sara Jacoby (Penn Nursing), Mark Yim (Penn Engineering)

Funding: Penn4C

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