Mary C Hardin

Interests

Research

Design and construction of affordable housing, Thermal transfer through building assemblies, Design-build pedagogy

Teaching

Design-Build Education, Materials and Methods of Construction

Courses

Scholarly Contributions

Journals/Publications

• Hardin, M. C. (2018). Post-Occupancy Testing of Thermal Dynamics of Design-Build Residences in Tucson, Arizona. Technology/ Architecture + Design, 2(2), 147 - 159.
• Wheeler, B. (2017). Civic Education. Abitare, 568, 64-73.
• Hardin, M. C., & Smith, S. I. (2014). BARRIO COLLABORATION: FROM CONSERVATION TECHNOLOGIES FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING TO PUBLIC POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS. ARCC.
• Hardin, M., & Comella, J. (2006). The Avenue of Ideas: A Sustainable, Affordable Housing Experiment. Journal of Green Building, 1(4), 39-47. doi:10.3992/jgb.1.4.39
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  Abstract The metropolitan area of Tucson, Arizona is a repository of traditions for dwelling in extreme conditions, as well as an incubator for new ideas about desert architecture. It is also a place with a long history of poverty and struggle for existence against harsh natural elements. With these conditions in mind, the City of Tucson partnered with five non-profit housing providers to build on one avenue an array of affordable housing prototypes that demonstrate to the public a variety of building systems that work to stabilize interiors from the diurnal temperature swings through insulation or thermal mass. Beginning in 1997, local non-profit housing providers designed and constructed sixteen residences representing five different methods of building low cost housing that comfortably mitigates the summer heat and winter chill. The last of the residences was completed in 2003; all are currently inhabited and in constant use. This article proposes a comparison of the environmental control strategies, b...

Proceedings Publications

• Hardin, M. C. (2021, Spring 2021). Material Matters: When Material Studies Drive Pedagogy. In National ACSA Meeting.
• Hardin, M. C. (2019, June). Design-Build for Discovery: Applied Research on the Construction Site. In Building Technology Educator's Society 2019, vol2019, 8.
• Lee, T., & Hardin, M. (1996). Daylight visual effects: an interactive multimedia courseware prototype for beginning design students. In ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics, 30, 51-53.
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  Beginning design students often find that it is difficult to master the varied and complex issues of architectural daylighting within a short timescale. Daylight is very dynamic and difficult to capture, and students struggle to document and understand daylighting phenomena through the traditional approaches of physical modeling, graphic techniques and computations. However, computer graphics and multimedia technologies are becoming widely used in educational applications and can facilitate non-linear, interactive learning environments particularly suited to complex concepts.An interactive multimedia courseware prototype, Daylight Visual Effects (DVE), has been designed to provide a demonstration database and easy-to-use interface for beginning design students. Users gain or enhance knowledge about the visual effects of daylighting by reviewing relevant daylighting images, written information animations and 3D computer models in the DVE's database. A live demonstration of the DVE prototype will follow this brief discussion of its inception, development, effectiveness in the studio and potential for future modifications.

Presentations

• Hardin, M. C. (2019, January). Design-Build Pedagogy. Field Work Design-Build Symposium. Tulane University: Tulane School of Architecture.