Four ARCH 615 students from the Chase L. Leavitt Graduate Building Science Program – Saba Raji, Manan Lakhani, Niyoshi Sanghrajka, and Selin Guner took the Honor Award in the Graduate Category of the 2023 Architecture@Zero design competition for their design of an agriculture center and farmers’ housing in Allensworth, California.

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SCANNING USING A SMART PHONE FOR HERITAGE CONSERVATION: A Case Study Using the Reunion House - Hong Ye, MBS'23

DYNAMIC WORKPLACE PLATFORM: Exploration of the Feasibility of Human Electroencephalogram (EEG) to Predict the User’s Indoor Environmental Satisfaction - Xiaoyu Yin, MBS'23

Indoor Environmental Quality and Comfort - Haoyue Dai, MBS'23

Carbon Accounting Tool(CAT) in BIM: An Embodied Carbon Plug-in for Revit - Xiangyu Sun, MBS'23

Data visualization in VR/AR: Static Data Analysis in Buildings - Danqi Meng, MBS'23

Thermal Performance of a Precast Roof Assembly - Aditya A. Bahl, MBS'23

A High-Performance SuperWall: Designed for a small residence at Joshua Tree National Park - Archana Janardanan, MBS'23

Post Occupancy Evaluation in office:Study of environmental satisfaction and work productivity through hot desking system - Shreya Satodia, MBS'23

TINY HOUSE IN THE DESERT: A study in indoor comfort using moveable insulation and thermal storage - Yuqing He, MBS'23

POST-TENSIONING A GFRC ASSEMBLY: An Experiment Using Glass Fiber Reinforced Concrete Panels - Mohammad Alwataid, MBS'22

QUANTIFY HUMAN EXPERIENCE: INTEGRATING VIRTUAL REALITY, BIOMETRIC SENSORS, AND MACHINE LEARNING - Jenson Chen, MBS'22

Dynamic Shading and Glazing Technologies: Improve Energy, Visual, and Thermal Performance - Weixuan lu, MBS'22

Simulation-Based Lighting Control Algorithm: Integrating Daylight and Lighting Simulation for Daylight-Linked Lighting Control - Shaobo Yang, MBS'22

Streamlining Precast Back-Frame Design: Automated Design Using Revit Plug-In - Victoria Dam, MBS'22

Microclimate and Building Energy Performance - K Krupa Pai, MBS'22

Net Zero Carbon Concrete - Mohammed Dadabhai, MBS'22

A Survey and Experiments Exploring Light Transmitting Concrete - Chinmai Shimpi, MBS'22

Indoor Air Quality for Human Health in Residential Buildings - Minghuan Gong, MBS'22

IEQ, Sleep Quality and IoTs: Meta-Analysis on Improving IEQ and Sleep Quality Using IoT - Jun Wang, MBS'22

Using Bio-signals with Smart Windows - Zihan Wang, MBS'22

Net Zero Energy Building: The integration of design strategies and PVs for zero-energy consumption - Haotian Wu, MBS'22

BIM+AR in Architecture: A Building Maintenance Application for a Smart Phone - Ruisong Zheng, MBS'22

MULTI-OCCUPANCY ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL FOR SMART CONNECTED COMMUNITIES – YUSHI WANG, MBS '21

DESIGN AND MODELING OF AN ENGINEERED BAMBOO STUD WALL IN SOLIDWORKS – BARBARA AGUIRRE, MBS '21

IMPACT OF BAMBOO MATERIALS ON INDOOR AIR QUALITY– VIDYA CHOWDARY CHUNDRU, MBS '21

IMPACTS OF BUILDING PERFORMANCE ON OCCUPANTS’ WORK PRODUCTIVITY – AISHWARYA SWAMY, MBS '21

OFFICE FLOOR PLANS GENERATION BASED ON GENERATIVE ADVERSARIAL NETWORK – ZHEQUAN ZHANG, MBS '21

AN ANALYSIS OF BUILDING COMPONENT ENERGY USAGE – MUNTASEER KHAN, MBS '21

DEVELOPMENT OF AI-DRIVEN ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN GUIDELINES: ESTABLISHING HUMAN BIOMETRIC SIGNAL-DRIVEN ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN GUIDELINE AS A FUNCTION OF PSYCHOLOGICAL PRINCIPLES – XINGBAI ZHANG, MBS '21

EMBODIED CARBON OF WOOD CONSTRUCTION – RUSHITA VORA, MBS '21

DEVELOPMENT OF DATA-DRIVEN BUILDING FAÇADE DESIGN PREFERENCE GUIDELINE MODELS: MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUES TO PREDICT USER DESIGN PREFERENCES – JONG JOO KIM, MBS '21

AUTOMATING FIRE CODE COMPLIANCE USING BIM AND REVIT PLUG-INS – WENXIN HU, MBS '21

THE POTENTIAL USE OF MULTI-OCCUPANT BIO-SIGNALS FOR HIGH-PERFORMANCE BUILDING CONTROL MECHANISMS - YUAN SUN, MBS ’20

USING BUILDING INFORMATION MODELING WITH AUGMENTED REALITY: VISUALIZING AND EDITING MEP SYSTEMS WITH A MOBILE AUGMENTED REALITY APPLICATION - ZEYU LU, MBS ’20

A PROPOSAL FOR BUILDING ENVELOPE RETROFIT ON THE BONAVENTURE HOTEL: A CASE STUDY EXAMINING ENERGY AND CARBON - ALEXXA SOLOMON, MBS ’20

THE INTELLIGENT CONTROL STRATEGY OF KINETIC FAÇADES FOR DAYLIGHT AND ENERGY PERFORMANCE: EVALUATING THE DAYLIGHT EFFECT OF ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS BASED ON PARAMETRIC WORKFLOW - CHENXI YANG, MBS ’20

A BIM-BASED TOOL FOR ACCESSIBLE DESIGN STANDARD PLAN CHECK - ZHYING LIU, MBS ’20

STREAMLINING SUSTAINABLE DESIGN IN BUILDING INFORMATION MODELING: BIM-BASED PV DESIGN AND ANALYSIS TOOLS - QIHANG LIN, MBS ’20

AUGMENTED REALITY IN ROOM ACOUSTICS: A SIMULATION TOOL FOR MOBILE DEVICES WITH AUDITORY FEEDBACK - ZHIHE WANG, MBS ’20

Joyce Hahn - Measuring Daylight: Analysis Of Daylighting At LACMA’s Resnick Pavilion


Kai Yin - Building Bridges: Filling Gaps Between BIM And Other Tools In Mechanical Design 

Lisha Deng - Exterior Glare Simulation: Understanding Solar Convergence From Concave Facades Using Heat Maps 

Dennis Chow - Blind To Light Loss: Evaluating Light Loss Through Commercial Building Facades As A Contribution To Urban Light Pollution 

Jaehyun Moon - Considering Occupants: Comprehensive POE Research On Office Environment Of Southern California 

laria Toldo - Informing Conservation: Implementation Of Building Information Modeling Systems For Architectural Heritage 

Mohammad Aljammaz - Daylighting Tubes In Riyadh And Los Angeles: Comparison Of Culture And Market Penetration 

Shinjini Bhattacharjee - Determining Solar Envelope Geometry For Sites With Existing Buildings 

Qianqian (Sunny-Fan) - Facade Forensics: Visualizing Thermal Data In A Building Information Model 

Kai Yin - Building Bridges: Filling Gaps Between BIM And Other Tools In Mechanical Design 

Brittany Moffett - Envisioning Seismic Los Angeles: Data Visualization Techniques For An Interactive Seismicity And Building Response Map Application 

Edna Catumbela - Green Facades Morphological Analysis: A Taxonomy Development Tool For Design Assistance 

Maral Rahmani - Climate-Responsive User Interface: Environmental Control In Residential Facilities Using User-Centered Approaches 

Aditya Dharane - Bridging The Energy Gaps By Using Measured Weather, Occupancy, And Submetered Data 

Kim Cheong - Impact Of Occupants In Building Performance: Extracting Information From Building-Related Data 

Kelly Burkhart - Evaluating Daylighting Design Expectations: POE To Improve Future Daylighting Design Decision-Making        

Fahad Alshiddi - Pre-Cast Concrete Envelopes In Hot-Humid Climates: Improving Envelopes To Reduce Cooling Load And Electrical Consumption

Yiyu Chen - Environmental Adaptive Design: Building Performance Analysis For Climate Change

Chao Yang - Energy Use Intensity Estimation Method Based On Building Façade Features By Using Regression Model

Spurthy Yogananda - Green Roofs: Study Of Various Parameters And Their Influence On The Building With Respect To Climate Zones.

Bo Yi - Improving Thermal Conditions: Development Of An Automatic Thermal Control System Using Human Skin Temperature

Varshini Raman (2015)

Geoffrey Becker - Ctrl+Z: Exploring The Effects Of Undoing Retrofits To Pre-War Buildings In Los Angeles        

Angella Johnson - Fire Engineering And Vertical Evacuations In Ultra High-Rise Buildings    

Mohammad Hijazi - Bridging The Gap: A Methodology To Support Bim Data Exchange For Building Energy Performance, Simulation, And Analysis

Hui-Ling Chang - Evaluation And Optimization Of Solar Control Screens: Using Daylight Simulation To Optimize Solar Control Screen Geometry

Sebanti Banerjee - Daylighting Prediction: An Evaluation Of Lighting Design Software For Analysis Of Daylighting In Buildings

Shang Sun - Energy Efficient Buildings: A Method Of Probabilistic Risk Assessment Using Building Energy Simulation

Elham Motevalian - Double Skin Facade Performance: The Effect On Daylight And Visual Comfort

Maria Spastri - Transforming Double Skin Facades: Energy Saving Potential Of Dynamic Environmental Control In The Cavity

Varshini Raman - Ieq And The Impacts Caused On Occupants: A Poe Study Of An Office Building

Rui Zhu - Human-Environment Interaction: Potential Use Of Pupil Size For Office Lighting Controls

Alejandro Gamas - Grasshopper-Diva-Etc:A Parametric Envelope-Modeling Workflow For Daylight And Thermal Quality

Praveen Sehrawat - Urban Energy Modeling: Contrasting Building Energy Simulation Using Gis Tools With Validated Energy Simulation Tools

Chenchuan Trent Qian - Thermal Lag Addin For Revit: Analysis Wall/Roof Section And Energy Saving

Stephanie Egger - Airflow Investigation On Fabric Structure Forms: A Fluid Dynamic Analysis 

Zakarya Alahmed - Double-Skin Facades In Hot-Arid Climates 

Meng Gong - External Structure For Existing Buildings In Seismic Zones: Tensile Envelope For Structure Renovation: Lateral Drift Reduction In Existing Structures Using External Devices

Michael Makris - Structural Design Tool For Performative Building Elements: An Automated/Semi-Automated Grasshopper Plugin For Inventing New Or Unusual Informed Form 

Tyler Tucker - Performative Shading Design: Parametric Based Measure Of Shading System Configuration Effectiveness And Trends 

Aireen Batungbakal - Chromic Glass: Light And Acoustics Properties From Glass To Facade Systems: Simulating The Relation Between Smart Glass And Laminate Glass Using Its Reflective And Refractive Properties 

Nura Darabi - Life Cycle Comparison For Commercial Buildings: Resource Efficiency Of Retrofit Versus Replacement 

Ioli Papaioannou - Smart Facades For Environmental Control Systems: A Smart Façade Contributing Effectively To Air Pollution Treatment. 

Mika Yagi - “Watts Per Person” Paradigm To Design Net Zero Energy Buildings: Achieving Maximum Energy Savings By [Re] Defining The 2,000 Watt Society 

Yue Liu - Effective Lighting Shelf And Form Finding: Development Of The Lighting Shelf Design Tool And Energy And Lighting Performance Integrated 

Tighe Lanning - Economizer Performance And Verification: Effect Of Human Behavior On Economizer Efficacy And Thermal Comfort In Southern California 

Sananda Mukherjee - Green Roof Design Guidelines For Office Buildings In Different Climates: A Thermal Performance Assessment Through Energy Modeling

Priyanka Padmanabhan Nayar - Improving Thermal Comfort In Residential Spaces In The Wet Tropical Climate Zones Of India Using Passive Cooling Techniques: A Study Using Computational Design Methods

Morgan Wiener - Unitized Double Skin Façade Assemblies: Achieving The Needs Of Future Envelope Systems Through Construction And Performance Advances

Yi-Lun Cheng - Digital Tree Simulation For Residential Building Energy Savings: Shading And Evapotranspiration

Aishwarya Balagopal - Design Proposal And Analysis Of Curved Brace System To Reduce Drift In Moment Frame Structures

Guang Yang - Energy Simulation In Existing Buildings: Calibrating The Model For Retrofit Studies

William Vicent - Comparing Visual Comfort Metrics For Fourteen Spaces Using Simulation-Based Luminance Mapping

Sukreet Singh - Zero Net Energy Institutional Building

Won Hee Ko - Tilted Glazing: Angle-Dependence Of Direct Solar Heat Gain And Form-Refining Of Complex Facades

Feng-Cheng Chiu O'Connor - Effects Of Building Plan Configuration On Lateral Load Responses

Han Sang Kim - Seismic Retrofitting With Cost Effectiveness: Steel Braced Frame, Steel Moment Frame, Concrete Shear Wall, Concrete Moment Frame

Geman Wu - Studies In Preliminary Design Of Fenestration: Balancing Daylight Harvesting And Energy Consumption

Babak Zareiyan - Performance Of Roof Materials High SRI, Low SRI, And Green Roof In California Climate Zone 8 Los Angeles, California

James Jesse Domanski - The Viability Of Wind Energy Harvesting On Low Rise Buildings In The Built Environment: A Case Study Of The Los Angeles Metro Area

Yang Shen - Geothermal Heat Pump's Energy Effect And Economical Benefits

Mohamed Mansour El Sheikh - Intelligent Building Skins: Parametric-Based Algorithm For Kinetic Facades Design And Daylighting Performance Integration

Xin Zhao - An Investigation On Using BIM For Sustainability Analysis Using The LEED Rating System

Hanshu Yin - Glare Studies: Comparison Of Three Glare Indices, HDR Imaging And Measured Values

Hamad Abdullah L Olayan - Harvesting Energy With Solar Panels And Adaptive Shading For Building Skins: A Case Study Of An Office Building In Saudi Arabia

Lutao Wang - Design Of Double Skin (Envelope - As A Solar Chimney: Adapting Natural Ventilation In Double Envelope For Mild Or Warm Climates

Deepa Chandrashekaran - Air Flow Through Louvered Openings: Effect Of Louver Slats On Air Movement Inside A Space

Jason P. Kirchhoff - Solar Thermal Cooling And Heating: A Year-Round Thermal Comfort Strategy Using A Hybrid Solar Absorption Chiller And Hydronic Heating Scheme

Jamil Binabid - Vertical Garden: The Study Of Vertical Gardens And Their Benefits For Low-Rise Buildings In Moderate And Hot Climates

Ryan Hansanuwat - Kinetic Facades As Environmental Control Systems: Using Kinetic Facades To Increase Energy Efficiency And Building Performance In Office Buildings

Tai Uey Huang - Energy Saving Integrated Facade: Design And Analysis Using Computer Simulation

enneth A. Griffin - Night Flushing And Thermal Mass: Maximizing Natural Ventilation For Energy Conservation Through Architectural Features

Elham Moore - Autoclaved Aerated Concrete (AAC - A Study On AAC For Low-Rise Structures In Southern California

Lei Fu - Glass Beam Design For Architects: Brief Introduction To The Most Critical Factors Of Glass Beams And Easy Computer Tool

Vasudha Rathi - Disaster Relief Transitional Emergency Shelter: Environmental And Structural Analysis Of Two Prefab Modular Emergency Shelters For Three Different Californian Climate Zones

Anupam Jain - Development and Validation of a U-BIM Model For Mitigation of the Urban Heat Island Effect

Emily Kemper - Using Architecture in the Fight Against Global Warming Presenting [...] 

Taehyun Kim - Comparison of prefab homes and a site built home: Quantitative evaluation of four [...]

Ben McAlister - Conservation and Reconstruction of Textile Blocks: An Investigation of Issues Concerning the Manufacture, Preservation and Replacement of the Concrete Exterior of the Freeman House in Hollywood, California.

Aran Osborne - Landscape & building solar loads: Development of a computer-based tool to aid [...] 

Daniel Riggin - An Analysis of Underwater Habitats: A Development of the Outline for Aquatectural [...]

Angela Vargas - The Textile Block System: Structural Analysis and Alternative Seismic Upgrading to [...]

Kimmi Wiebe - Biomimetic Design of the Building Envelope: Biological Climate Adaptations and Thermal Controls in the Sonoran Desert

Tianxin Xing - A Teaching Tool for Architectural Acoustics

John Paul Basbagill - Fiber Reinforced Phenolic Foam: Climatic Effects of Mechanical Properties [...]

James Bryon Cleveland - The Potential Application of Natural Fiber Reinforced Bio‐polymer [...] 

Xing Chen - Computerizing the Heliodon

David Douglass - Defining a Sustainable Aesthetic: A New Paradigm for Architecture

Laura Haymond - Full Size Contour Crafting Applications

Yunzhi Huang - Calibration and Data Accuracy Research of the Schierle Shake Table

Anita Jeerage - Glazing Solutions for Low Cost, High Performance Housing in Tijuana, Mexico

Sumedha Kumar - Interoperability Between Building Information Models (BIM - and Energy [...]

Shih Hsin Lin - Watt Hall Energy Management System Implementation Initiative

Ciavash Loghmani - Optimal Zoning Configurations for Solar Access in High Rise Developments

Shraddha Marathe - Design2sustain‐A Web Based Resource Suite for Sustainability [...]

Michael Robert Patterson - Structural Glass Facades: A Unique Building Technology

Greg Swanson - A Concentrating Solar Thermal Collector for Catalina Island

Fares Al-Salem - A Scientifically Based Integration of Traditional Low-Energy Adaptations to Kuwait’s Hot-Arid Climate

Othman Subhi Al-Shamrani - Selection of Structural Systems and Materials: Minimizing [...]

Tareq Ali Baker - An Open-Source Program to Animate and Visualize the Recorded [...]

Sandra Brown - Seismic Analysis and Shake Table Modeling: Using a Shake Table for [...]

Chris Buntine - Zero Peak Residential Electric Demand - An Evaluation of Strategies for [...]

Jason Ritter-Lopatowski - Wind Turbine Integration: A Study of Building Shape and Orientation

Jae Yong Suk - Post-Treatment Analysis of the Glare Remediation of the Walt Disney [...]

Alice Ormsbee Beltran - Water in the Freeman House: A Study of the Block in the Textile Block [...]

Sumit Avinash Brahmbhatt - The Thermal Energy Performance Study of the Freeman House

Varma Namburi - Comparative Evaluation of Lighting Design Software Programs

Jonathan Tedjakusuma - A Visual and Digital Method for Predicting Discomfort Glare

Sarada Chidambareswaran - Mahoney Tables PLUS: A Software Tool for Climate Conscious Design

Johnny Lu - Lighting Design Assessment Tool for Senior Living Facilities

Suganya Thiagarajan - Acoustics of the Bing Theatre: Computer Simulation for Acoustical Improvements

Manu Juyal - SolCAD: a 3-D Spatial Design Tool for Generating Solar Envelope

Mark Hulme - Color, Daylighting and Dynamism: Towards a Theory of Bounced Color and Dynamic [...]

Sreemathi Iyer - Guidelines For Building Non-Engineered Reinforced Masonary In Earthquake-Prone [...]

Ghosson Al-Khaled - Hebel Design Analysis Program

Rashed Khalifa Al-Shaali - Maximizing Natural Ventilation By Design In Low Rise Residential [...]

Fang Sui - Lateral Performance Comparision: Residential Wood Framing and CFS Framing

Kang Kyu Choi - Reinforced Concrete Structure Design Teaching Tool

Khaled Al-Jammaz - Determining Optimal Block-Type for Use in Saudi Arabia

Chung-Hsin Tsai - Natural Ventilation In the High-Rise Buildings For Taipei

Rashed Al-Shaali - Maximizing Natural Ventilation By Design In Low-Rise Residential Buildings Using [...]

Felipe Hernandez - Underwater Farming Colonies: a New Space for Human Habitat

Bean Ching Law - Online Portfolio Repository for Students of Architecture

Nazneen Sabbavala - Thermal Performance of Straw Bales

Madhavi Chavan: - DSnF: Design Studio of the (near - Future

Rebeka Vital - A Case Study Comparing Measured and Simulated Acoustical Environments: Acoustical Improvements of Verle Annis Gallery

Anish Tripathi - Augmented Reality Application for Architecture

Geetika Tandon - A Web-based Teaching Tool on Thermal Processes in Buildings

Vagish Narang - WebArc: Control and Monitoring of Building Systems over the Web

"Wan" Svastisinha Runsrithep - Passive Cooling for Thailand

Sonal Puri - The Essence of Vaastu-Shilpa Shastra: A Multimedia Teaching Tool

Archit Jain - Interactive Teaching Tool on the Web: Site Solar Access

Catherine Houston - UBC Code Supplement

I. Mazzoleni - SBMA: The Online Sustainable Building Materials Advisor

A. Jain - VRSolar: An Exploration in Web Based Interactive Architectural Teaching

E. Setiadarma - A computer aided teaching tool for sun shading devices

S. Japee - Visual discomfort and occupant interaction

S. Keskinel - Superinsulation applied to manufactured housing in hot, arid climates

C.I. Jo - An analysis of theological and technical aspects of lighting in a sacred Christian space

I. Alturki - Physical models to study natural light in atria and adjacent spaces for qualitative and quantitative energy reducing opportunities

S. Bharali - Study of California energy codes and US energy performance standards applicable to Bombay

H. Fuchs - Compilation of ecological design and planning information for a reference text on sustainable architecture

K. Puri - Study of building codes applicable to the Himalaya foothills, to improve energy standards for small scale vernacular buildings

A. Yuan - Computer animation system to teach passive cooling strategies for hot humid climates

P.C. Wang - Reflective light plenum to direct daylight to office interiors

S. Hrisafovic - A computer program to teach passive solar design

U.P. Yeh - Computer aided solar envelop design

R. Singh - Software integration for value conscious design

Y. Kim - Simulation of the configurations for solar houses

H.C. Wang - A cross-ventilation study on a building with skip-stop corridors

L. Nkuo - Passive cooling methods for mid to high-rise buildings in the hot-humid climate of Douala, Cameroon, West Africa

T.H. Al-Qahtani - A passive cooling system for residential building in the eastern province desert in Saudi Arabia