BUILDINGS, CITIES, AND PERFORMANCE
Cities account for a significant portion of global anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions, due to population growth and urbanization. With major contributions to energy demand and carbon emissions in cities, building-related urban energy use should be the foundation of local and global agendas to meet carbon reduction targets. The 3rd International Graduate Student Symposium that is hosted by the PhD Program at IIT Architecture will explore the theme of "Buildings, Cities, and Performance". The symposium is to provide a platform to engage in and enhance the dialogue around future trends of energy performance research in the building sector within an urban context. The symposium highlights graduate student contributions in architecture, engineering, urban design and planning, landscape architecture and other related disciplines.
SCHEDULE
Opening event: Nov 16, 2018
All-day paper sessions: Nov 17, 2018
Chicago architecture tour: Nov 18, 2018
FRI, NOV 16: OPENING
Lower Core, S. R. Crown Hall
3:00 - 4:00 PM | REGISTRATION (S. R. Crown Hall; South Entrance)
4:15 - 4:30 PM | INTRODUCTION AND WELCOME
Rahman Azari, PhD, Director of Program
Peter Kilpatrick, PhD, Provost
Michelangelo Sabatino, PhD, Dean of the College of Architecture
4:30 - 5:30 PM | KEYNOTE SPEECH
Christoph Reinhart, PhD, Professor and Director of Building Technology Program, MIT
Cities for the Millennials – Design Tools in Support of Sustainable Urban Architecture
5:30 – 6:00 PM | RECEPTION (Upper Center Core)
6:00 – 8:30 PM | HOLIDAY GOSPEL CONCERT (Upper Center Core)
SAT, NOV 17: PAPER SESSIONS
S. R. Crown Hall
8:00 - 8:30 AM | BREAKFAST
8:30 - 9:45 AM | IIT CAMPUS TOUR
9:45 - 10:00 AM | INTRODUCTION
Narjes Abbasabadi, PhD CandidateRahman Azari, PhD, Director of Program
10:00 -10:50 AM | KEYNOTE SPEECH
Norbert Lechner, Professor Emeritus at Auburn University
Architecture in a Warming World
11:00 AM – 12:30 PM | Upper Center Core, S. R. Crown Hall
PAPER SESSION A-1: URBAN ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE
A New Look into District Energy Systems for Energy Efficient Neighborhoods, Alpha Yacob Arsano, Shreshth Nagpal and Christoph Reinhart, MIT
Mapping and Quantifying Urban Heat Islands in India’s Most Dense Cities
Surekha Tetali; Nina Baird, Carnegie Mellon
A New Look into District Energy Systems for Energy Efficient Neighborhoods
Alpha Yacob Arsano, Shreshth Nagpal and Christoph Reinhart, MIT
Evaluating Urban Ventilation in the Urban Grid of Barcelona and Berlin: A Comparative Study on the Relationship Between Wind Direction and Urban Morphology, Homeira Mirhosseini, Penn State
An Integrated Data-Driven Framework for Urban Energy Use Modeling
Narjes Abbasabadi and Rahman Azari, IIT
Revisiting City Energy Performance Grading: The Inadequacy of Current Standards and The Promise of Big Data, Sokratis Papadopoulos and Constantine Kontokosta, New York University
11:00 AM – 12:30 PM | Lower Core, S. R. Crown Hall
PAPER SESSION A-2: URBAN AND BUILDING PERFORMANCE: COMFORT, ENVIRONMENTAL INDOOR QUALITY AND ENERGY
A New Framework for Evaluating Indoor Views and Internal Visual Connectivity in Open Plan Workspaces, Irmak Turan and Christoph Reinhart, MIT
A Framework for Performance-Based Façade Design for Optimizing Energy, Comfort and Cost, Mahsa Minaei and Ajla Aksamija, Umass Amherst
An Integrated Machine Learning and Simulation Framework for Indoor Air Quality and Energy Use (IAQ-EU), Mehdi Ashayeri, IIT
Investigating the Spatial Variation and Relationship Between Building and Transportation Energy Use for Residents of Philadelphia Metropolitan Region, Shideh Shams Amiri, Simi Hoque, Earl Lee and Nariman Mostafavi, Drexel University
Climate Change Impacts on Office Buildings Performance: A Case Study of Philadelphia USA, Hamed Yassaghi; Simi Hoque, Drexel University
Network Simulation And Scale-model Experimental Study Of Natural Ventilation In Subway Stations, Yanan Liu, Zhen Zeng Yujie Zhang and Yimin Xiao, Chongqing University
Human Behavior In Outdoor Public Spaces Of Tall Urban Morphology: A Micro-climatic Study Of Inter-relationships Between Outdoor Thermal Comfort, User’s Attendance And Physical Urban Forms, Zahida Khan, IIT
12:30 - 1:30 PM | LUNCH (S. R. Crown Hall)
1:30 - 2:20 PM | KEYNOTE SPEECH
Stephen Ray, PhD, Assistant Professor and Director of Sustainability, North Park University; Technical Advisor to Skidmore, Owings and Merrill
Low Entropy, Smart, and Healthy Cities
2:20 - 2:35 PM | COFFEE BREAK
2:35 - 4:05 PM | Upper Center Core, S. R. Crown Hall
PAPER SESSION B-1: MATERIALS, SYSTEMS, AND BUILDING PERFORMANCE
Interaction of Chilled Beam Flows and its Impact on Air Circulation and Thermal Comfort in Buildings, Nikhilesh Ghanta, Barry Coflan And Leon Glicksman, MIT
Lessons from the Creation of a Thermally Isolated Structural Steel and Reinforced Concrete Museum Building, Daniel Whittaker, IIT
On the Impact of Height Limitation Ordinances of Ultra-Tall Buildings; Chicago and Dubai, Amajd Alkoud, IIT
Fast Estimation of Buildings’ Embodied Energy Using Economic Input-Output Method for an Urban Model, Rezvan M.Ziazi and Melissa Bilec, University of Pittsburgh
Embodied Carbon in MEP Systems: A Simplified Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) Method for MEP Systems in Commercial Office Buildings of the Pacific Northwest
Barbara Rodriguez, Kathrina Simonen, Hyun Woo Lee and Monica Huang, University of Washington
A Novel Statistical Model for Monitoring & Predicting Energy Behavior in an Office Building, Thulasi Ram Khamma, Yuming Zhang, Stéphane Guerrier, Mohamed Boubekri, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign & Penn State
Knowledge Representation and Reasoning Framework for Building Energy Monitoring, Parastoo Delgoshaei, Mohammad Heidarinejad, Amanda J. Pertzborn, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), IIT
2:35 - 4:05 PM | Lower Core, S. R. Crown Hall
PAPER SESSION B-2: CLIMATE, DESIGN AND BUILDING PERFORMANCE
Designing an Energy-Efficient Residential Building in Hot and Arid Region of Iran, City of Yazd, Farzad Hashemi, Iowa State University
Enhancing Natural Ventilation Through Massing: New Possibilities for Turkish Mass Housing, Ezgi Bay, IIT
Net Zero Energy School Buildings in Cold Climate: Design Strategies and Techniques, Hamed Hakim, Andriel Fenner, Mohamad Ahmadzadeh Razkenari and Charles Kibert, University of Florida
Development of Energy Performance Index Benchmark for Cold Climatic Regions of India, Giriraj Srivastava, Ankit Bhalla, IIT, GRIHA Institute
The ‘Particlizing’ of the Matter, Grazia Maria Nicolosi, University of Catania
Parametric Optimization of Courtyard’s Configuration in Typical Saharian Houses, Benharra Houda and Mahaya Chafik, university of Biskra
The Impacts Of Naturally Ventilated Double-skin Facade Configurations On Energy Performance For Supertall Office Buildings, Yohan Kim, IIT
Prototype of Net Zero Energy School for Hot & Dry Climate In Indian Context
Amanda Thounaojam, Shoumik Desai, Yashima Jain, Dharini Sridharan, and Ankit Debnath, CEPT University
4:05 - 4:20 PM | COFFEE BREAK
4:20 - 5:10 PM | KEYNOTE SPEECH
Sybil Derrible, PhD, Director of Complex and Sustainable Urban Networks Lab, University of Illinois at Chicago
Shaping Future Cities to be Smart, Sustainable, and Resilient
6:30 - 9:00 PM RECEPTION
Tadao Ando Gallery, Wrightwood 659
Sunday Nov 18: Chicago architecture tour
Meet at 8:20 AM in S. R. Crown Hall (bus departs 8:30 AM)
10 AM - 2:30 PM FARNSWORTH HOUSE | LUNCH | FREDERICK C. ROBIE HOUSE