Dr Tsung-Hsien Wang
BS Arch, MS Arch, PhD, FHEA
School of Architecture and Landscape
Lecturer in Sustainable Digital Design
- Profile
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Prior to joining 91Ö±²¥ School of Architecture in 2012 I was a PhD researcher and adjunct instructor in the School of Architecture at Carnegie Mellon University, USA. I also worked in both architecture and technology firms, including SOM and Gehry Technologies, and was invited to give guest lectures and workshops in the US, UK, China and Taiwan.
With a combined background in architecture and computation, I am interested in computational design research of information modelling for sustainable building design and evaluation.
In particular, I investigate algorithmic and parametric modelling workflow for iterative building performance simulation, evaluation and visualisation at both single building and urban scales.
- Research interests
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My major research interests lie in investigating architectural geometry construction and information modelling from a parametric and generative perspective. Central to my research is to investigate computational approaches to solving:
- Building Information Interoperability for computer-aided sustainable design and evaluation. With sortable topological relational network this work can be applied in areas of building performance simulation, sustainability evaluation, compliance checking and information interoperation from a single building to a city scale.
- Complex Architectural Geometry Manifestation through performance-driven optimisation and digital fabrication.
Postgraduate Research Supervision Interests
- performance-driven design process
- geometry construction and optimisation
- cloud-based computing for interactive/real-time building information modelling and visualisation
- information interoperation for building performance simulation and sustainability evaluation
- Publications
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Journal articles
Chapters
Conference proceedings papers
Preprints
- Research group
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- Mohammed H Aljammaz, Closing Gaps in Building Performance Predictions with Culture-Specific Occupancy Behaviours, 2017-present
- Olivia Espinosa Trujillo, Tension-only Bamboo Structures, 2017-present
- Omar SA Hamed, Automating BIM for Green Building Evaluation and Certification in Jordan, 2018-present
- Grants
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- ARUP Global Research Challenge 2014 (PI: Dr Tsung-Hsien Wang, CI: Prof. Martin Mayfield), ARUP, £20,000, Dec 2014-Jun 2016.
- Learned Societies Fund for CAADRIA 2013, SSoA, 2013
- Learned Societies Fund for eCAADe 2014, SSoA, 2014
- Teaching activities
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My current teaching activities are at Post Graduate Taught level:
- ARC6811 Parametric Architectural Geometry, Autumn.
- ARC6812 Building Information Modelling, Management and Analysis, Autumn.
- ARC6818 Elements of Computational Design I, Autumn.
I co-Lead Studio MAKE (ARC6815 with Dr Chengzhi Peng) and also contribute to the following modules: ARC6816 MSc Dissertation/Thesis Design Project; ARC6990 MSc SAS Advance Project; ARC322 Special Study; ARC556/566 MArch Dissertation
In 2013 and 2014, I coordinated ARC6840 Renewable Energy module for MSc Sustainable Architecture Studies.
Administrative roles:
- Undergraduate Admissions Coordinator
- Programme Co-Leader of MSc Digital Architecture and Design
- Member of IT and Print Committee
- Professional activities and memberships
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- Reviewer, Architectural Science Review, 2014
- Reviewer, 16th International Conference on Geometry and Graphics (ICGG), 2014
- Member of SmartGeometry 2012 International Advisory Board, 2012
- ARM|Additive Robotic Materialization, AGD+Tamkang University, Taiwan, 2013
- Actuating Geometry in Design [Digital Fabrication], Taipei Tech, Taiwan, 2013
- Actuating Geometry in Design [Physical Computing], Taipei Tech, Taiwan, 2012
- [Guest Lecture] Generative Architecture Geometry, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA, 2010
- [Invited Workshop] Parametric Urban Furniture, Tamkang University, Taiwan, 2009
- [Invited Workshop] Digital Tectonics : Robotic Fabrication, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA, 2009