Monday, September 28
12:30-2PM AVT 7-431

CHRISTOPH REINHART
Associate Professor of Architectural Technology,
Harvard Design School

The Role of Building Performance Simulation in Architectural Education and Practice

This presentation will discuss recent experiences and research results gathered at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design related to the topic of teaching building performance simulation to architectural students. There will also be a discussion on preliminary results from a survey that explored the use of building energy models beyond the design phase in which over four hundred architects, building modelers and owners participated over the summer. Other topics that will be covered include:

- The merits of collecting your own weather data, the Gund Hall weather station.
- Building and validating a DesignBuilder/EnergyPlus model of Gund Hall.
- Teaching students to build reliable models for daylight simulations.
- Animated Building Performance simulation daylight – generating
animated Radiance simulations out of Rhino.
- An embedded energy analysis of Gund Hall using Athena.

Light refreshments will be served.
Please contact amulcahy@mit.edu with questions.

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Upcoming dates in the Fall 2009 BTLS:

Mon Sept 28
AVT 7-431, 12:30-2PM
Christoph Reinhart, Harvard University
“The role of building performance simulation in architectural education and practice”

Mon Oct 5
AVT 7-431, 12:30-2PM
Brent Gabby, Simpson Gumphertz & Heger
Lecture title TBA

Mon Oct 19
Room TBA, 12:30-2PM
Byron Stigge, Buro Happold
“Costs and benefits of Double Skin Facades”

Mon Nov 2
1-190, 12:30-2PM
Erik Olsen, Transsolar Inc.
“Inside the shoebox: Using physics-rich performance simulations to provide meaningful design guidance”

Mon Nov 16
AVT 7-431, 12:30-2PM
Simon Greenwold, MathWorks
“Structural Sketches: From ActiveStatics to StaticsPad”

Mon Nov 23
AVT 7-431, 12:30-2PM
Roger Chang, Westlake Reed Leskosky
“Sustainable Design: A Collaborative Approach”