BUILDINGS, CITIES, AND PERFORMANCE

IIT ARCHITECTURECHICAGO

3RD INTERNATIONAL GRADUATE STUDENT SYMPOSIUM

NOV. 16–18, 2018

S. R. CROWN HALL3360 S. STATE ST.CHICAGO

PHD PROGRAM IN ARCHITECTURE

IMAGE: IWAN BAANARCH.IIT.EDU

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 WELCOMERahman Azari, PhD, Director of ProgramPeter Kilpatrick, PhD, ProvostMichelangelo Sabatino, PhD, Dean of the College of Architecture

4:30 - 5:30 PM KEYNOTE SPEECHChristoph Reinhart, PhD, Professor and Director of Building Technology Program, MITCities 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 SESSIONSS. R. Crown Hall

8:00 - 8:30 AM BREAKFAST

8:30 - 9:45 AM IIT CAMPUS TOUR

9:45 - 10:00 AM INTRODUCTIONNarjes Abbasabadi, PhD Candidate Rahman Azari, PhD, Director of Program

10:00 -10:50 AM KEYNOTE SPEECHNorbert Lechner, Professor Emeritus at Auburn UniversityArchitecture in a Warming World

11:00 AM – 12:30 PM | Upper Center Core, S. R. Crown HallPAPER 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 ModelingNarjes 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 HallPAPER 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 Trans-portation 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 SPEECHStephen Ray, PhD, Assistant Professor and Director of Sustainability, North Park University; Technical Advisor to Skidmore, Owings and MerrillLow Entropy, Smart, and Healthy Cities

2:20 - 2:35 PM COFFEE BREAK

2:35 - 4:05 PM | Upper Center Core, S. R. Crown HallPAPER 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 NorthwestBarbara 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 HallPAPER 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 ContextAmanda 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 SPEECHSybil Derrible, PhD, Director of Complex and Sustainable Urban Networks Lab, University of Illinois at ChicagoShaping Future Cities to be Smart, Sustainable, and Resilient

6:30 - 9:00 PM RECEPTIONTadao Ando Gallery, Wrightwood 659

SUN, NOV 18: 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