Michelle Laboy
Assistant Professor, School of Architecture
Affiliated Faculty, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Contact
- m.laboy@northeastern.edu
- 448B Ryder
360 Huntington Avenue
Boston, Massachusetts 02115
Office
- 617.373.5320
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Research Focus
Building and site systems integration; structures and landscape performance; building and urban resilience; green infrastructure; socio-ecological factors in design, transdisciplinary teaching and learning
Education
- MArch, MUP, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2005
- B.S. Civil Engineering, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez, 2001
Honors & Awards
- Latrobe Prize, American Institute of Architects College of Fellows
Research Overview
Building and site systems integration; structures and landscape performance; building and urban resilience; green infrastructure; socio-ecological factors in design, transdisciplinary teaching and learning
Selected Research Projects
- Boston LightWells
Principal Investigator, Boston Groundwater Trust and AutoDesk BUILD Grant - Community Resilience in Extreme Temperatures: Solutions for Citizens, Governments and Utilities Through Big Data and Community Engagement
Co-Principal Investigator, Northeastern University - Future-Use Architecture: Design for Persistent Change
Co-Principal Investigator, American Institute of Architects College of Fellows
Department Research Areas
Selected Publications
- Fannon, D.; Laboy, M.; Wiederspahn, P. The Architecture of Persistence: Design for Future Use. (New York, New York: Routledge. 2021)
- M. Laboy, 1-Inch Urbanism: An Architectural Agenda for Decentralized Storm Water Buffering, Future Praxis: Applied Research as a Bridge Between Theory and Practice: Journal of Proceedings of the 2019 ARCC International Conference
- M. Laboy, A. Onnis-Hayden, Bridging the Gap Between Architecture and Engineering: a Transdisciplinary Model for a Resilient Built Environment, Proceedings of BTES 2019: Integration and Innovation, 2019 Conference of the Building Technology Educators Society
- M. Eckelman, M. Laboy, LCAart: Communicating Industrial Ecology at a Human Scale, Journal of Industrial Ecology, 2020
- M. Laboy, Physical Environments for Active Schools: Future Directions for Transdisciplinary Research, Translational Journal of the American College of Sports Medicine, 4(17), 2019, 155–64
- M. Laboy, Temporal Reciprocities of Building and Site: Structural Patterns for Resilient Future-Use Structures, Structures and Architecture: Bridging the Gap and Crossing Borders, 2019, 1031–40
Feb 08, 2023
Building a Carbon Negative Future with Steel and Cross Laminated Timber
In a new $3.1M grant from the Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E), Northeastern Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Chair and CDM Smith Professor Jerome Hajjar will lead a multi-institution team of researchers developing a new carbon sequestration technique using cross-laminated timber composite floor systems in bolted steel construction for building structures.
Jun 06, 2022
Designing Buildings to be Aware of the Surroundings
CEE Affiliated Faculty Michelle Laboy and CEE/MES Assistant Professor Amy Mueller won the Latrobe Prize from the American Institute of Architects College of Fellows for their project Common SENSES (Standards for ENacting Sensor networks for an Equitable Society). How architects can make buildings ‘aware’ and benefit the local environment Main photo: Rendering from a design […]
Apr 11, 2020
FY21 TIER 1 Award Recipients
Congratulations to the 19 COE faculty and affiliates who were recipients of FY21 TIER 1 Interdisciplinary Research Seed Grants for 13 different projects.
Feb 18, 2020
DURABLE: Sustainable Material Ecologies, Assemblies and Cultures
A new exhibition at the BSA Space – DURABLE: Sustainable Material Ecologies, Assemblies, and Cultures, curated by CEE faculty David Fannon and Matthew Eckelman, as well as Architecture faculty Michelle Laboy and Peter Wiederspahn, explores the materials used to construct the built environment which are critical components to the sustainability of our cities.
Oct 10, 2018
Civil and Environmental Engineering students place 3rd at Environmental Design Competition
A team of Civil and Environmental students from Northeastern University placed third in the WEF Environmental Design Competition, which saw the participation of 22 teams from across the 3 countries.