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Title: The Tall Building: The Effects of Scale
Creator: Goldsmith, Myron
Date: 2011-01-31, 1953-06-01
Description: The project described in this thesis is a new structural type for tall buildings in reinforced concrete. Both structure and function have been...
Show moreThe project described in this thesis is a new structural type for tall buildings in reinforced concrete. Both structure and function have been analyzed to show their influence on the height of the building and their influence on the architectural expression.
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Title: WAUKEGAN LAKE FRONT REVITALIZATION PLAN
Creator: Webb, Natalia Pena
Date: 2011-04-13, 2011-05
Description: Waukegan is a place that has a strategic location. Not just because it is in the middle of two important cities like Chicago and Milwaukee,...
Show moreWaukegan is a place that has a strategic location. Not just because it is in the middle of two important cities like Chicago and Milwaukee, but because of its proximity to the lake (which is the most desired location for condos and public activities) and all the existing train systems that can help to develop the area as a public transit oriented city. Because of this, Waukegan has a good possibility to become one of the most desirable places to live, but the lack of intervention; coordination and initiative from the city in the past decades have left the place abandoned. People and companies are leaving, and initiatives to redevelop are still known for its residents and are taking too long. For Waukegan the most important strategy is to bring life back to its downtown. After that, some activities could cross easily to the water front, making people aware of the endless possibilities that the area offers not just for dwelling units, but for commercial, recreational and even educational purposes. (Research center and possible school) For the lake front, the strategy should be different for some spaces depending on the surrounding areas and the character that they could have. A strategy is to bring activities that can complement life in the city, for example: theaters, sports centers, hotels etc. Adding 9,000 people to the total people will give the option of have new routes for public transportation, new jobs and new and more equipment for recreational spaces. Apart from that, the unification of the two areas: down town Waukegan and the water front are important in order to understand the place like one. The fact that the highway and the railroad stand are in the middle of both, just creates a strong division. On the top of that, there is no reason to cross over to go to the beach area. If we consider that highway traffic is low and the railroad could be moved (not erase, but moved. Because there is still the necessity for it) the connection between both places could be more clear and strong, not just for people but for cars. This strategy will be critical at the time of unification of the area. In addition Waukegan has a population of 44.8 % Hispanic, 30.9% White Non-Hispanic. With an estimated median household income in 2007: $45,548. This shows that Waukegan is mainly supported by low income families and they are mostly of Hispanic origin. The idea is not to completely change the city but to support their business and culture making places into an attraction for cultural interchange. One of the main purposes of the new vision city is equality. Not thinking that in order to make a place better (more beautiful or desirable) we have to kick out its old residents. People create ties to the place they live. This could be an incentive to bring the community together in order to improve the environment. Also the addition of the new research center in between down town and the new lake front development will help to bring new uses to the area. The research center will offer new jobs and a choice for some people coming from outside to live in the locality. Close to the research center, the new lake front neighborhood will offer an area with several entertainment spaces and then the option to live closer to this location or in a more quiet and familiar area. The research center will have the possibility for future expansion that could be an education center related to the work that is done there. This will bring students to the area and more diversity. There are many good reasons to stop abusing the car use and make use of the many alternatives, but in the end we design and negotiate the same old fashioned neighborhoods. It is because we have not solved the conflict of interest between a better envi-ronment and a better economy. The problem is that in the end people will opt for those places with more commodities and that includes the car.
M.S. in Architecture, May 2011
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Title: TOWARDS REDUCING BUILDING ENERGY CONSUMPTION: COMPARISON OF THE RESIDENTIAL PLANNING PATTERNS IN BEIJING, SHANGHAI AND GUANGZHOU
Creator: Wang, Nan
Date: 2013, 2013-07
Description: The objective of this research is to investigate the influence of urban planning patterns on building energy consumption in different climate...
Show moreThe objective of this research is to investigate the influence of urban planning patterns on building energy consumption in different climate zones. Urban planning patterns affect the thermal performance and energy efficiency of buildings. This research focuses on the planning aspects, explores the energy consumption of a group of buildings with different planning pattern by utilizing single building as a baseline, and identifies planning patterns that can help to reduce the total heating and cooling energy consumption of the buildings. The investigations are carried out in the three largest cities in China – Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou, which represent different climate zones. The results of these three cities are compared to find out the influence of local climate on building energy consumption. Different planning patterns are investigated in this research through changing building parameters: aspect ratio, orientation and layout. It is found that these parameters have important influence on reducing building’s energy consumption. It is also found that in different climate conditions, the influence of planning patterns on building’s energy consumption is different, which suggests that the selection of planning pattern will be different for each location. This research makes a significant contribution to the reduction of building energy consumption from urban planning perspective. In addition, two case studies of carefully selected residential communities with fixed site and fixed density are evaluated, and some suggestions for improvement are proposed as a result of the study. Such suggestions can help to propose a prototype model guiding the future architectural and urban planning work.
PH.D in Architecture, July 2013
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Title: Textile Openings
Creator: Carvallo, Maria Paulina
Date: 2011-12-06, 2011-12
Description: A facade may serve many functions throughout the life of a building, but the primary purpose of a building’s facade is to protect the interior...
Show moreA facade may serve many functions throughout the life of a building, but the primary purpose of a building’s facade is to protect the interior of a structure from the outside environment. By examining an element of every facade design, its openings, one may also find solutions to other design and layout questions concerning a building’s interior. Textile facades show potential as new and interesting materials for facade design. However, textile facades must reinvent or adapt standard facade elements such as windows, doors, and other openings within the constraints of the material properties exhibited by textiles. This thesis explores potential facade opening mechanisms, including technical and natural examples. Details of textile facades are considered, including laser cutting of polyester fabrics, textile material properties and tension deformation, and a variety of textile facade designs. Furthermore, a standardized design workflow and process for considering multiple environmental variables present in and around facades, such as solar thermal, day lighting, ventilation, and identity, are discussed and illustrate that the methodology applied herein can be used to predict other applications of textiles.
M.S. in Architecture, December 2011
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Title: IMPROVING DECISION-MAKING FOR ENERGY PERFORMANCE OF BUILDINGS WITH COMPUTATIONAL TOOLS IN EARLY DESIGN STAGES
Creator: Claussnitzer, Sebastian
Date: 2013, 2013-12
Description: In the early design stages of architectural practice, a relative absence of advanced decision-making processes limits the number of building...
Show moreIn the early design stages of architectural practice, a relative absence of advanced decision-making processes limits the number of building-design options that can be exam- ined for energy e ciency. This paper proposes to improve the design process by enhancing decision-making with computational tools: speci cally, tools that autonomously generate and evaluate thousands of design options. Two di erent tools were prototyped, each utiliz- ing contrasting algorithmic approaches. The rst prototype uses numerical optimization to autonomously explore the design space of a parametric building model, and simulates the annual energy consumption through energy modeling. The second prototype, in contrast, utilizes an exhaustive search to explore the design space of a simpli ed building model. Tens of thousands of simulation results are stored in a database, which users access through web-interfaces in near-realtime. The proposed tools for advanced decision-making enable architects to examine many more building design alternatives than are manually feasible, thus increasing the likelihood of identifying better design options.
M.S. in Architecture, December 2013
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Title: HOSPITAL FACILITY DESIGN: A GUIDE TO SPACE PLANNING FOR A NEW GENERAL HOSPITAL IN VIETNAM
Creator: Pham, Tuan Anh
Date: 2015, 2015-07
Description: Vietnam is a relatively small and populous developing country. Over the past several decades, the change in the country’s market economy and...
Show moreVietnam is a relatively small and populous developing country. Over the past several decades, the change in the country’s market economy and the population growth have greatly affected the lives, activities, and the demands for heath care as well as impacted the healthcare system. Since 1994, the time when the United States abolished the trade embargo against Vietnam, the economic development and the growth of the healthcare system in the country have been extraordinary. Even though substantial investment has been obtained from the Vietnamese government, limitations remain in the physical facilities in the healthcare system as well as in the facility design. Designing a new general hospital is a complicated process and requires a lot of attention and knowledge from a design team. Generally, the design process consists of two phases: a planning phase and a design phase. The planning phase is extremely important and will decide the success of the general hospital. G D Kunders, an Indian professional hospital administrator and a healthcare facility planner, has stated “Failing to plan is planning to fail” (Kunders 2004, 61). The main objective of this dissertation, “HOSPITAL FACILITY DESIGN: A GUIDE TO SPACE PLANNING FOR A NEW GENERAL HOSPITAL IN VIETNAM,” is to produce a guide that will be a reference source for the Vietnamese government to improve the current standard for hospital design. As a reference source, the proposed guide can be used as a tool to assist Vietnamese architects and other professionals in healthcare design areas in improving the quality of the hospital planning and design in Vietnam. This dissertation also aims to be a teaching reference source for architecture educators to use in their instruction at universities in Vietnam and a learning resource to help architecture students understand requirements for spaces in a general hospital as well as how a general hospital functions so they can better plan and design it. The proposed guide is set in an arrangement that can help educators and students without strong backgrounds in hospital design to easily understand how to plan a new general hospital. The research methods used in this dissertation are (i) document reviews, (ii) qualitative research based on Post-occupancy Evaluation (POE), and (iii) comparative analyses. The findings are used to create a guide to space planning for a new general hospital to use to improve the current Vietnamese standards, TCVN 4470: 2012, General Hospital - Design Standard, in hospital planning and design for Vietnam. This dissertation consists of eight chapters, which include Chapter 1 - Introduction, Chapter 2 - Literature Review, Chapter 3 - Problem Statement, Chapter 4 - Methodology, Chapter 5 - Data Analysis, Chapter 6 - Findings, Chapter 7 - A Guide to Space Planning for a New General Hospital in Vietnam, and Chapter 8 - Conclusion.
Ph.D. in Architecture, July 2015
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Title: EVALUATION OF THE EFFECTS OF VEGETATION AND GREEN WALLS ON BUILDING THERMAL PERFORMANCE AND ENERGY CONSUMPTION
Creator: Susorova, Irina
Date: 2013, 2013-05
Description: Urban development poses multiple problems, including environmental pollution, a reduction in biodiversity, and the disappearance of the...
Show moreUrban development poses multiple problems, including environmental pollution, a reduction in biodiversity, and the disappearance of the natural environment. Man-made environments and structures consume a large amount of limited natural resources through their extensive use of energy and materials. This research explored the use of vegetation in building facades as a potential solution to the problems of urban ecology and the excessive energy consumption in buildings. Vegetated facades have the ability to reduce building energy use, reduce the urban heat island effect, improve air quality, and increase the biodiversity of plants and animals in cities. The goal of this research was to evaluate the effects of plants on thermal performance and energy consumption of buildings by developing a thermal model of a building facade covered with a layer of plants. The developed mathematical model accounts for thermal physical processes in a vegetated exterior wall, including solar radiation, infrared radiative exchange between the facade and sky, the facade and ground, the facade and vegetation layer, convection to and from the facade, evapotranspiration from the plant layer, heat storage in the facade material, and heat conduction through the facade. The model calculates vegetated facade surface temperature and heat flux through the facade for multiple weather conditions, plant physiological characteristics, and facade properties. The model was validated with the results of a week-long experiment measuring the thermal properties of bare and vegetated facades on a building at the Illinois Institute of Technology campus. The experiment and subsequent sensitivity analysis demonstrated that a plant layer can effectively reduce the facade exterior surface temperature, daily temperature x viii fluctuations, exterior wall temperature gradient, and, as a result, provide as much additional thermal insulation to the facade as a 2.5 cm layer of expanded polystyrene insulation, depending on a range of plant parameters. The vegetated facade model was also used to analyze the reduction in energy consumption in generic office and residential thermal zones for multiple parameters. The simulations showed that energy reduction could be as high as 6.2% of annual total energy use and 34.6% of cooling energy use in residential thermal zones, depending on building characteristics, plant parameters, and climate zone. Overall, the vegetated wall model developed and validated herein provides a new tool for evaluating the impact of plant layers on facade thermal performance in existing buildings retrofitted with green walls and for designing green walls for optimal energy efficiency in new construction.
PH.D in Architecture, May 2013
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Title: RESILIENT CITIES OF THE FUTURE UTILIZING NATURAL INTELLIGENCE TO RETROFIT THE URBAN SYSTEMS
Creator: Naik, Vaidehi
Date: 2017, 2017-07
Description: Accentuated by the industrial revolution, the climate change is aging our cities, which are now facing an ecological, economical, and...
Show moreAccentuated by the industrial revolution, the climate change is aging our cities, which are now facing an ecological, economical, and political imbalance resulting into the degraded quality of urban living. Not only has global warming altered the earth’s natural patterns, but it also altered the economic and socio-cultural urban patterns. With the growing needs of rapidly expanding urban population due to the industrial revolution, the cities underwent unplanned sprawling of urban agglomerations. However, our globalized economic system has evolved the way we live, work, and play, transforming the modern infrastructure growth models significantly. Our architects, urban planners, and policy makers are powered by the environmental scientist’s years of research and analysis, yet are struggling to replenish the post-industrial age rust belt mayhem with sustainable solutions. As the transition from industrial to ecological age become eminent, by investigating into the natural intelligence’s survival techniques, we could extract practical solutions to using clean and renewable energy systems to support life. This thesis aims at analyzing the current trends in redesigning and retrofitting the urban-systems with the eco-systems at the micro- and macro- scales, thus providing with sustainable solutions to the new city center of the sixth largest town in Canada, Mississauga. Caused by rapid urbanization, population growth & migration, increased emission of green house gases, and overuse & pollution, our deteriorating infrastructure is grappling for mitigation against climate change, and global warming. Using natural intelligence to shift from linear to a closed loop system, the solutions provided herein aims at increasing the infrastructure’s resource efficiency and changing from fossil fuel to solar economy. Catalyzed by the proposed Midwestern high-speed rail line, the project in Mississauga (Ontario, Canada) seeks to introduce the hybrid, mixed-use, transit oriented development to instigate the shift towards eco-cities. These intermodal transit infrastructure aims to bring a strategically sustainable change at a neighborhood scale, thus eventually refurbishing the entire city, one territory at a time. The idea of these utopian cities may seem unachievable at a larger scale, but the cities like Hammarby Sjöstad, Tianjin, and Dongtan seem to lead, inspire, and equip the ignorant with their sustainable approach to growth. By transitioning towards an ecological age, there seems a way to negating the effects of human induced climate change, and make our planet sustainable for the future generations to survive.
M.S. in Architecture, July 2017
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Title: ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL SUSTAINABILITY IMPLICATIONS OF DOWNTOWN HIGH-RISE VS. SUBURBAN LOW-RISE LIVING: A CHICAGO CASE STUDY
Creator: Du, Peng
Date: 2015, 2015-12
Description: This research is focused on quantitatively investigating and comparing the environmental and social sustainability of people’s lifestyles in...
Show moreThis research is focused on quantitatively investigating and comparing the environmental and social sustainability of people’s lifestyles in terms of embodied energy, operational energy use, and overall satisfaction with their quality of life in both downtown high-rise and suburban low-rise living using Chicago, IL and a surrounding suburban area of Oak Park, IL as a case study. Specifically, in both cases, the study seeks to evaluate factors such as the embodied energy of the materials that comprise buildings in each location; the predicted and actual monthly energy consumption of the homes; travel via all modes of transport including automobile, public transport, walking, and biking; and the embodied and operational energy of the infrastructure to support each mode of transportation. In addition, this research also engages with the individual building occupants, including single individuals, couples, and families, in a large subset of downtown and suburban Chicago households to directly evaluate perceptions of their life satisfaction and sense of community, which offers a unique direct comparison between dense high-rise and suburban low-rise living. The findings of the study show that downtown high-rise living in Chicago accounts for approximately 58% more life-cycle energy per person per year than Oak Park low-rise living, on average, contrary to some common beliefs (best estimates were ~260 and ~165GJ/person/year, respectively). Building operational energy was estimated to be the single largest contributor of the total life-cycle energy in both the downtown high-rise and suburban low-rise cases, followed by vehicle OE. The findings of the study also show that downtown high-rise residents were associated with higher life satisfaction than suburban low-rise residents when controlling for demographic differences in the research sample. Residence type was not found to be associated with sense of community when controlling for demographic differences, and the factor that was found to be significantly associated with sense of community was household size in the research sample. Also, accessibility and safety were found as the strongest predictors of overall residential environment for individuals.
Ph.D. in Architecture, December 2015
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Title: A MASTER PLAN FOR A DETROIT NEIGHBORHOOD MADE IN DETROIT
Creator: Rios, Adriana Teresa
Date: 2014, 2014-05
Description: A MASTER PLAN FOR A DETROIT NEIGHBORHOOD MADE IN DETROIT Adriana Teresa Rios, M.S.Arch Illinois Institute of Technology, May 2014 Adviser: Tom...
Show moreA MASTER PLAN FOR A DETROIT NEIGHBORHOOD MADE IN DETROIT Adriana Teresa Rios, M.S.Arch Illinois Institute of Technology, May 2014 Adviser: Tom Brock Co-Adviser: George Schipporeit This thesis was written on behalf of the Sustainable New Cities program for the Illinois Institute of Technology. The goal of this Thesis is to establish a working definition of sustainability and the framework necessary for rebuilding a neighborhood in Detroit. The neighborhood in this Thesis being rebuilt is directly Southwest of Downtown Detroit. For the purpose of this thesis, sustainability is defined materially, socially, environmentally and economically. The plan for this Thesis is accomplished in phases to allow for an appropriately sized and conscientiously executed change. There is a large portion devoted to the history of Detroit and current state of the city; the reason for such an examination is to fully understand the past mistakes and successes throughout the history of Detroit. The systems and infrastructure designed in this Thesis effectively create a walkable thriving community that is diverse in it’s ecology, economy, and demographics. A major component for making this Thesis viable is the design of a Technology Campus that will collaborate with the city, local universities, and various technical companies to educate and train existing and new members of the local population. The second intergral aspect of this design is the light rail that will improve and simplify transportation outside of automobile traffic. Aside from the tangible infrastructure benchmarks, this Thesis also establishes the necessary theory behind a neighborhood that will continue to grow change and thrive. This Thesis has achieved a plan that considers all aspects of reconfiguring a neighborhood with sustainability as the focus.
M.S. in Architecture, May 2014
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Title: FERN CREEK MENTAL AND BEHAVIORAL HEALTH HOSPITAL DESIGN
Creator: Groszko, Larissa A.
Date: 2012-11-10, 2012-12
Description: During the past fifty years, mental and behavioral health treatments and patient needs have changed drastically within the psychiatric field....
Show moreDuring the past fifty years, mental and behavioral health treatments and patient needs have changed drastically within the psychiatric field. However, architecture and design characteristics of a mental healthcare facility have not adapted to meet the demands. In addressing numerous aspects related to psychiatric care, a new hospital design needs to emerge in order to better serve those in need of treatment related to mental and behavioral health disorders. The design of a Mental and Behavioral Health Facility should focus on and incorporate recent healthcare design theories, such as Evidence-based Design and Biophilic Design Theories. The integration of current theories will aid in the development of a healing environment that will support the successful functioning of the facility and patient/family treatment. Facility designs must consider staff areas, inpatient and outpatient care, rehabilitation and family/patient education, as integral components that contribute to the treatment of mental health disorders and illness.
M.S. in Architecture, December 2012
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Title: IMAGINE PILSEN
Creator: Zouridis, Despina
Date: 2012-11-11, 2012-12
Description: The “mega museum” or museum designed by a superstar architect has become a common addition to cities around the world both large and small....
Show moreThe “mega museum” or museum designed by a superstar architect has become a common addition to cities around the world both large and small. The mega museum concentrates a collection of arts related functions in a single structure that is often either over-scaled for the neighborhood within which it placed or placed outside the urban center in order to make more room for an ever expanding collection of programs. Imagine Pilsen takes the mega museum’s collection of functions and spreads them throughout a three-block area of unoccupied buildings in Pilsen’s historic arts district. Rather than a single lateral or vertical volume, this project proposes eight programs within eight currently unoccupied structures. Eight buildings will express themselves as both architecturally unique to their individual programs and architecturally cohesive so as to be indentified and understood as individual parts and parts of a larger whole. Scale, material, color, structure and light will be utilized as common elements to allow for individual program expression and a cohesive identity available and obvious to the museum visitor. Museum visitors over the course of a day complete their three-block walk “through” of the museum or the museum reveals itself in parts to the visitor who discovers the museum’s components wholly over a longer period of time. Imagine Pilsen is a proposal for the decentralization of programming as a strategy for reinforcing the center of a once thriving community.
M.S. in Architecture, December 2012
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Title: REVISITING THE URBAN BLOCK IN THE LIGHT OF CLIMATE CHANGE A CASE STUDY OF BUDAPEST
Creator: Gal, Csilla Viktoria
Date: 2014, 2014-07
Description: Since the beginning of the twentieth century, the urban block configuration of free-standing buildings has been deemed superior to other built...
Show moreSince the beginning of the twentieth century, the urban block configuration of free-standing buildings has been deemed superior to other built forms, as it provided the necessities of modern healthy living: sunlight and fresh air. In light of climate change, the dissertation aims to reevaluate these long held beliefs and to reintroduce microclimate as an urban design consideration. The study takes four metropolitan block typologies of Budapest as cases to clarify the microclimate influence of key urban design parameters by means of a numerical simulation study. The effects of built form, orientation, vegetation and facade properties are evaluated for a typical summer day. The cases are assessed on the basis of diurnal potential air and mean radiant temperatures within the urban canopy layer. Numerical modeling is performed by ENVI-met and analysis is conducted with MATLAB. The findings indicate that built form and vegetation are key factors governing the microclimate. During the day, intraurban cool island develops between dense configurations and in tree-shaded urban canopies. Orientation is decisive in configurations with large open spaces, where east-west alignment corresponds with peak radiant and air temperatures. Apart from albedo, facade properties have little effect on the microclimate. The rise of air temperature with facade albedo is the outcome of canopy floor heating, resulting from the increased ratio of reflected shortwave radiation. A short-term field experiment was conducted in Budapest to complement the numerical simulation study and to evaluate ENVI-met. The measurement campaign utilized six air temperature and humidity loggers. Additionally, wind speed, air temperature and humidity were recorded at the pedestrian level during an anticyclonic period. In courtyards, thermal stratification developed by day with cool island intensities up to 7 C. In the case of open configurations, neither cool island, nor stratification was observed. The comparison of measured and predicted air temperatures revealed the strengths and weaknesses of the numerical model. In general, predicted temperatures had a decreased diurnal range with maximum values systematically underestimated. ENVI-met also failed to reproduce the thermal stratification in courtyards. Despite these shortcomings, the predicted trends and the relative microclimate differences between the configurations agreed with observations reasonably well.
Ph.D. in Architecture, July 2014
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Title: Sustainable High-Rise Building at Nanjido Park in Seoul
Creator: Kwon, Osung
Date: 2011-08-08, 2011-07
Description: n/a
M.Arch., July 2011

Title: MULTI-DISCIPLINARY PERFORMANCE-BASED FORM GENERATION PROCESS: DEVELOPING AN OPTIMIZATION APPROACH FOR LONG SPAN ROOFS
Creator: Nicknam, Mahsa
Date: 2013, 2013-05
Description: This research is intended to incorporate multiple performances into the architectural form generation process of long span roofs. To this end,...
Show moreThis research is intended to incorporate multiple performances into the architectural form generation process of long span roofs. To this end, it proposes a multidisciplinary performance-based form generation process (MPGP) using Genetic Algorithm (GA) for the exploration of form based on performance criteria. This process leads us to a new integrated design approach in architecture. Conceptual design decisions have the greatest impact on building performance. However in conventional linear approaches, energy and structural issues are typically dealt with after these program, massing, and enclosure decisions are well articulated. This locks in life-cycle performance, and leads to costly redesigns when results fail to satisfy requirements. Research has shown how successful buildings emerge from the rapid and systematic generation and multidisciplinary analysis of many alternatives. However, until recently Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) design teams were constrained by tools and schedule and only be able to generate a few alternatives, and analyze these from just a few perspectives. The rapid emergence of parametric and generative design, building simulation, and design space exploration and optimization tools now make it possible for a design team to construct and analyze far larger design spaces more quickly, and better understand the importance of design variables on the overall building performance. The proposed process, moves beyond the current form generation approaches by using the dynamic potential possibilities of simulation tools in which form generation is based on their performance feedback. The simultaneous integration of multiple xvi performances at the early stage of design minimizes the need to move back and forth later on the design development phase, therefore reducing the overall design circle. MPGP uses the potential of parametric algorithm to generate the form and uses an optimization algorithm, Genetic Algorithms (GAs), as a search algorithm to explore the proper design satisfying required performances. This method will demonstrate how a flexible 3D model can be parametrically altered toward targeted solutions with the help of near real-time feedback generated by performance-based analysis tools within an optimization framework. Hence, in this approach, design is considered to be a process of a repeated loop of generation, evaluation, and modification until the targeted objectives are satisfied. The integration of generative tools and performance analytical tools in the early stage of design provides great opportunities for the designers to enhance the design space and select the proper design among different design solutions based on their preferences. As a result, designers develop architectural forms based on informed decisions by observing the impact of the varying parameters on the structural and energy efficiency performances. Consequently, this process will greatly benefit engineering by achieving a more collaborative and information-based design environment. Increasing the number of efficient design alternatives, dealing with different levels of complexity in the architectural design process, promoting multi-disciplinary collaboration, and improving overall design understanding are the main benefits of the proposed process.
PH.D in Architecture, May 2013
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Title: Design of an industrial town on Black Lake, Michigan
Creator: Simmons, Charles Read, Anning, Harold Edmund, Marx, Emmet Raymer
Date: 1915
Publisher: Armour Institute of Technology
Description: http://www.archive.org/details/designofindustri00simm
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Creator: Hassan, Ahmed Ali
Date: 2017, 2017-05
Description: Bio-polymeric materials derived from renewable biomass have successfully replaced conventional materials in many applications. Despite...
Show moreBio-polymeric materials derived from renewable biomass have successfully replaced conventional materials in many applications. Despite covering 10-15% of the current global plastic market, the application of the Bio-polymeric materials in the field of building facades has hitherto been limited. Unlike the conventional façade materials, Bio-polymeric materials can lessen the carbon footprint of the building façade significantly, reduce a considerable percentage of heat loss, and contribute in alleviating the amount of C&D waste dumped in landfills each year. This will help in saving the natural resources, conserving landfill spaces, decreasing pollution rates, and reducing the overall building weight and energy consumption. Accordingly, this research aims at developing a revolutionary lightweight building façade panel, made from Bio-polymeric agri-based materials, to replace the curtain wall glass and aluminum panel in office buildings, and to assess its impact on the environment, the building energy consumption, thermal performance and structural stability. To achieve that, the research discusses in the first place the potentiality of employing these materials while exploring the main physical and environmental challenges they may confront when introduced to the building facades realm. Secondly, the research adopts rigorous selection criteria to facilitate proposing innovative opaque/transparent materials capable of handling all the environmental, thermal, optical, functional, and economic considerations of the building facade. Thus, 1236 state-of-the-art Bio-polymeric materials have been exposed to a strict methodical screening process through structured quantifiable constraints. MCDM methods have then been employed to enable sorting and ranking the resulted set of candidates considering their order-of-preference in achieving the aforementioned performance criteria. Finally, computational simulation tests have been carried out to ensure that the BioEnclos© Façade Panel satisfies all the energy and building code requirements in terms of heat transfer, energy performance, optical properties, and structural behavior. Consequently, the simulation findings have demonstrated the great capabilities the BioEnclos© Façade Panel can provide to the future of the building façades. Through its several options, the BioEnclos© Façade Panel can reduce the weight of the entire building façade by a range of 43-53%. It also can improve the façade’s thermal resistance and energy savings by a range of 31-52%. In addition, it can maximize the visible light transmittance through the façade’s assembly by a range of 15-31%. Moreover, the BioEnclos© Façade Panel can be commissioned in different colors/textures with good UV radiation resistance, self-extinguishing abilities, exceptional 50-70% reduction in CO2 emissions, and multiple end-of-life options.
Ph.D. in Architecture, May 2017
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Title: A FORGOTTEN FOUNDATION OF THE BAUHAUS: PSYCHO-PHYSIOLOGICAL AESTHETICS AND THE INCEPTION OF MODERN DESIGN THEORY
Creator: Kalkatechi, Mina
Date: 2016, 2016-12
Description: This dissertation investigates the Bauhaus during its activity in Weimar and Dessau, as a pedagogical paradigm of modern era that drew upon...
Show moreThis dissertation investigates the Bauhaus during its activity in Weimar and Dessau, as a pedagogical paradigm of modern era that drew upon different aesthetic ideas of its past, which were set in motion by a vigorous interaction with human sciences during the era of 1890-1914. As a much-contested account of modernism, the story of the Bauhaus has been rewritten in many ways. While the dominant narrative considered the school as a forceful, autonomous entity that stood triumphant in its supposed denial of history and an innovation in modern pedagogy, studies that challenge this autonomy have been exclusive to social and political precedents of the Wilhelmine era. Yet, there remains a significant need in scholarship to fully grasp the scope of the Bauhaus as an aesthetic paradigm that goes beyond an elusive devotion to modern aesthetic ideals. My inquiry aims to position the Bauhaus as an outcome of a broader epistemological framework of its immediate past. Primarily set to address the aesthetics of everyday objects, scientific endeavors in psychology and psychophysiology during this time initiated a new aesthetics, whose main aim I argue, was to render a more humanistic prospect for modern art and architecture. This different connotation of modernity was decisive to counteract the extreme skepticism and negative mentality towards technological progress that was devoid of emotion and affect. Through discussing four discursive themes, I concoct a trajectory of different artistic attempts during 1890-1914 that act as precedents to those of the Bauhaus in 1920s. By so doing, this study highlights a significant contribution to inception of modern design at the Bauhaus: the interaction of human sciences with aesthetics at the turn of the century. This new aesthetics sought to understand its perceptual borders and created a theory of affect that engaged the Bauhaus more than it has been acknowledged in the scholarship. Although this new theory pervaded artistic realms through its interaction with social aspects of design, theories of craft and industry, and modern abstraction, it still remains a forgotten contribution to the Bauhaus. As such, the era of 1890-1914 shaped modern architectural theory more vigorously than previously realized.
Ph.D. in Architecture, December 2016
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Title: THE DESIGN AND ANALYSIS OF A MULTI-PERFORMANCE 3D PRINTED CONSTRUCTION UNIT: AN ALGORITHM TO UPGRADE THE STRUCTURAL, ENVIRONMENTAL AND ASSEMBLY PERFORMANCE IN MASONRY UNITS CONSTRUCTION
Creator: Kalkatechi, Maryam
Date: 2016, 2016-12
Description: This dissertation investigates the design and prototyping process of a new masonry unit. Drawing on the advantages offered by 3D printing...
Show moreThis dissertation investigates the design and prototyping process of a new masonry unit. Drawing on the advantages offered by 3D printing industry, it seeks to improve the unit’s structural efficiency and at the same time experiment with the potential benefits of ABS plastic for its realization. The first step of this process was to formulate a parametric algorithm based on a construction unit that provided different data-sketches. Through a case-by-case analysis, the research process either used these data-sketches as the preliminary step of analysis, or used trial and error to experiment first-hand with 3D printing processes to delineate the scope of their implementation and to account for the design consequences that production techniques brought upon the final product. By such examinations, the aim is to propose a new structural system that forms a new tectonic language and offers constructability solutions for a new wall system. As the most inexpensive and available plastic, using ABS plastic for 3D printed masonry units is a promising endeavor, which all the more necessitates addressing its design challenges. To do so, this research conceived of a 3D printed unit as an arrangement of cells that combined different considerations such as handling the unit, its structural performance and modularity in a uniform, ergonomic and sustainable wall system. The key features of this assembly comprised of a waffle plate that attached the EPS panel to the slab, a sprayed EPS, the ABS plastic unit that had ties as a design element for EPS installation, an interlocking snap-fit joint that vertically fastened the units together, and a custom-designed dovetail joint for horizontal connections. The parametric algorithm modified and redefined individual cells in the corners to realize these connections. The final step of this process entailed a comprehensive comparison of the proposed wall system to alternative wall systems, namely a solid wall system, an ICF wall system, and a cavity wall system for thickness, weight and thermal performance. Using Rescheck software, I compared these wall systems to a base model set in Chicago. Ultimately, this research is a detailed elaboration of a problem-solving process that exploits the capabilities of parametric design beyond its common emphasis on creating new geometries, by means of which the proposed system offers practical solutions to the prevalent challenges in masonry unit construction.
Ph.D. in Architecture, December 2016
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Title: Toward Net Zero Energy: The Correlation Between Achitectural Forms of Tall Buildings and Wind Power Production
Creator: Babsail, Mohammed Omar
Date: 2011-07, 2011-07
Description: Tall buildings are a major component in today’s urban fabric in many parts of the world. The amount of energy they consume is extremely high....
Show moreTall buildings are a major component in today’s urban fabric in many parts of the world. The amount of energy they consume is extremely high. Architects have been showing an increasing interest in designing highly energy efficient tall buildings to reduce the energy consumption significantly and, more recently, to integrate onsite renewable energy production technologies. This integrative approach is referred to as net zero energy building (net ZEB) design. The applications of wind power in tall buildings have been of interest to many designers as the speed and, therefore, the power of the wind increases with height above the ground. A few notable international projects have been constructed that incorporate building integrated wind turbines (BIWT’s). The research presented in this thesis investigated the correlation between the architectural forms of tall buildings and the enhancement of wind power production in office buildings, towards the realization of net zero energy towers through extensive use of computer simulation software and wind tunnel testing. The wind enhancement characteristics of different case studies were determined, and the Wind Enhancement Factor (WEF) was calculated for each case, along the with annual electricity consumption based on five different climate zones. The results indicated significant wind speed enhancement by over 35% in the single tower with openings, and up to 45% in the twin tower arrangement, multiplying the energy production of the turbines by a factor of over three times. Results also showed that wind turbine technology could significantly contribute toward the net ZEB goal by generating up to 45% of the electricity demand by 2025 if the building is designed with 70% energy efficiency, when compared to the baseline of ASHRAE 90.1-2004.
Ph.D. in Architecture, July 2011
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