Center for Architecture, Science and Ecology

The Center for Architecture, Science and Ecology is a research facility of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, founded in 2007 by Anna Dyson, Professor of Architecture at RPI, and Carl Galioto, senior technical architect at Skidmore, Owings and Merrill. It is a joint project of RPI and SOM. It is located in SOM's Wall Street offices in Lower Manhattan.
CASE was established as a collaborative research model to integrate academia with the architecture, engineering, and construction industry, aiming to accelerate the deployment of radically disruptive technologies in the built environment.
CASE has received multiple awards for innovation and sustainability in architecture, including:
2009: LEED Award of Excellence in Education
2009: R+D Award for the Active Modular Phytoremediation System
2012: AIANY Honors Award for collaborative work between SOM and CASE
2012: ACADIA Innovative Academic Program Award
2012: Architectural Record Innovator Award
2019: Falling Walls Venture First Place for the "CoHEX" innovation
2022: Grand Prize for “AERA,” a building systems integration project