[Examiner KULeuevn] Ayu Miyamoto on Parametric Modelling for Architectural Early Design Stages

Congratulations, Ayu Miyamoto, for passing your viva exam. On 10/10/2023 at 14h, I attended online the public defense 🎓 of Ayu Miyamoto as an Examiner at the Design and Engineering of Construction and Architecture, KULeuven, Belgium. Her dissertation's title is: « Sustainability of Residential Buildings: Parametric Modelling and Data Visualisation for Early Design Stage.» The Ph.D. is supervised by Prof. Frank De Troyer (Supervisor) and Karen Allacker at the Department of Architecture, Faculty of Engineering Science, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.

The developed tool allows a limited input accumulating info over the first design phases (pre-design, sketch design, preliminary design) and contains a "dashboard" offering a numerical and graphical overview of selected characteristics of each design variant considered as a relevant step. An overview of the design history is automatically generated. In this Ph.D. research, the database for monetized environmental impacts of building elements is elaborated based on the Belgian LCA method for buildings

Congratulations, Ayu, for this great achievement and dedication to many complex details. The parametric modeling and sensitivity analysis, together with the suggested Improved Dynamic Equivalent Heating Degree Day (IdEHDD) method and the Equivalent Heating Degree Day (EHDD) method, present a solid contribution to the field of informed design decision support. I can confirm that your persistence in combining building performance simulation with life cycle assessment and validating your findings through usability testing and user experience research are the key reasons for your success.

Read here the key publications:

✅ Miyamoto, A., Allacker, K., & De Troyer, F. (2021). Early design phase energy predictions using a semi-dynamic approach as an accurate proxy for dynamic energy simulations. Energy and Buildings, 111341.
✅ Miyamoto, A., Allacker, K., & De Troyer, F. (2022). Visual tool for sustainable buildings: A design approach with various data visualization techniques. Journal of Building Engineering, 56, 104741.
✅ Miyamoto, A., De Troyer, F., & Allacker, K. (2023). SUSTAINABILITY OF RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS: Parametric modeling and data visualization for the early design stage, Ph.D. dissertation, KU Leuven, Belgium. https://lnkd.in/dqArdD_b

Many thanks for the invitation by Prof. Frank De Troyer and Prof. Karen Allacker. The jury committee members included Prof. Jean Berlamont (President of the Jury), Prof. Andrew Vande Moere, Prof. Griet Verbeeck and Prof. Staf Roels. I wish you, Ayu, a prosperous future career and life.

📢 Read and share the 📄 dissertation. The manuscript is embargoed until 2024-10-10, or contact Ayu: https://lnkd.in/dqArdD_b

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