This project touches on a broad range of architectural and sustainability concepts, tools, and workflows. A common thread is the development of techniques to help users express constraints and to design emergent behaviour.
Due to the complexity of the problem domain, we take a community-based approach and work towards enabling and empowering research scientists around the world studying these areas. To this end, we have founded the Symposium on Simulation for Architecture and Urban Design.
We are creating a high-quality Building Information Model of our offices in Toronto. Our goal is to make our building into a living laboratory for energy modeling, simulation, validation, and ultimately, for sustainability.
As systems become more complex, the design and authoring process becomes more abstract. This project explores both interactive and programmatic means for authoring constraints to control emergent behaviour.
Buildings are the largest consumers of energy responsible for 48% of all Green House Gas (GHG) emissions. Due to the complexity and multidisciplinary aspects of architecture design and construction, and urban design and society, modeling and simulation have become valuable techniques to understand and optimize this enormous challenge. Although research on building simulation has a long history, simulation research has also progressed significantly over the last few decades. We believe that these areas can contribute greatly to each other, enabling the construction of an advanced systems-based building simulation framework. This ambitious research agenda will require multi-disciplinary cooperation and a more explicit collaboration to further advance and accelerate progress on holistic systems-based simulation for minimizing resource consumption and GHG emissions, while maximizing occupant comfort. This project will work towards the creation of this next-generation collaborative simulation framework.
Building performance systems are becoming more common in an effort to expose and measure the operational efficiency of a building. Going beyond current graphical or floor-plan viewers, we examine advanced 3D real-time sensor-network visualizations as part of a building debugging tool to improve building efficiency.
Rhys Goldstein, Michael Glueck & Azam Khan. (2011).
Real-Time Compression of Time Series Building Performance Data
2011 Conference Proceedings:
IBPSA-AIRAH Building Simulation Conference.
pp. 1057-1064.
Rhys Goldstein, Alex Tessier & Azam Khan. (2011).
Space Layout in Occupant Behavior Simulation
2011 Conference Proceedings:
IBPSA-AIRAH Building Simulation Conference.
pp. 1073-1080.
Holger Graf, Souheil Soubra, Guillaume Picinbono, Ian Keogh, Alex Tessier & Azam Khan. (2011).
Lifecycle Building Card: Toward Paperless and Visual Lifecycle Management Tools
SimAUD 2011 Conference Proceedings:
Symposium on Simulation for Architecture and Urban Design.
8 pages.
Rhys Goldstein, Alex Tessier & Azam Khan. (2010).
Customizing the Behavior of Interacting Occupants using Personas
SimBuild 2010 Conference Proceedings:
IBPSA-USA SimBuild Conference.
8 pages.
Best Paper Award
Ebenezer Hailemariam, Michael Glueck, Ramtin Attar, Alex Tessier, James McCrae & Azam Khan. (2010).
Toward a unified representation system of performance-related data
eSim 2010 Conference Proceedings:
IBPSA-Canada eSim Conference.
pp. 117 - 124.
Ramtin Attar, Venk Prabhu, Michael Glueck & Azam Khan. (2010).
210 King Street: A Dataset for Integrated Performance Assessment
SimAUD 2010 Conference Proceedings:
Symposium on Simulation for Architecture and Urban Design.
pp. 27-30.
Invited Paper
Ramtin Attar, Ebenezer Hailemariam, Michael Glueck, Alex Tessier, James McCrae & Azam Khan. (2010).
BIM-based Building Performance Monitor
SimAUD 2010 Conference Proceedings:
Symposium on Simulation for Architecture and Urban Design.
pp. 32.
Invited Video
Michael Glueck, Sean Anderson & Azam Khan. (2010).
DeskCube: using Physical Zones to Select and Control Combinations of 3D Navigation Operations
SimAUD 2010 Conference Proceedings:
Symposium on Simulation for Architecture and Urban Design.
pp. 41-44.
Invited Paper
Rhys Goldstein, Alex Tessier & Azam Khan. (2010).
Schedule-Calibrated Occupant Behavior Simulation
SimAUD 2010 Conference Proceedings:
Symposium on Simulation for Architecture and Urban Design.
pp. 3-10.
Ramtin Attar, Robert Aish, Jos Stam, Duncan Brinsmead, Alex Tessier, Michael Glueck & Azam Khan. (2009).
Physics-based Generative Design
CAAD Futures 2009 Conference Proceedings:
CAAD Futures Foundation.
pp. 231-244.
Ebenezer Hailemariam
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