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
- . Energy and Buildings, 324, 114947-114947.
- . Buildings, 12(11).
- . Buildings, 12(9).
- . Composite Structures.
- . Building and Environment.
- . Building and Environment, 169, 106453-106453.
- . Building and Environment.
- . Architectural Science Review.
- . Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Engineering History and Heritage.
- . International Journal of Architectural Computing, 15(2), 169-182.
- . Frontiers of Architectural Research, 3(4), 337-347.
- From Design to Pre-Certification using Building Information Modeling. Journal of Green Building, 8(1), 151-176.
- . Communications in Computer and Information Science, 242 COMMUNICAT, 138-155.
- . Buildings, 14(11), 3398-3398.
- . Buildings, 14(8), 2434-2434.
- . International Journal of Architectural Computing, 147807712311802-147807712311802.
Chapters
- , Communications in Computer and Information Science (pp. 272-290). Springer Berlin Heidelberg
- In Arisona S, Aschwanden G, Halatsch J & Wonka P (Ed.), Digital Urban Modeling and Simulation (pp. 138-155). Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Conference proceedings papers
- . World Conference on Timber Engineering (WCTE 2023), 19 June 2023 - 22 June 2023.
- . Proceedings of the 41st International Conference on Education and Research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe (eCAADe) [Volume 1], 20 September 2023 - 22 September 2023.
- Automatic Room Type Classification using Machine Learning for Two-Dimensional Residential Building Plans. Proceedings of the International Conference on Education and Research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe, Vol. 2 (pp 593-600)
- . CAADRIA proceedings, 9 April 2022 - 15 April 2022.
- Towards an Interactionist Model of Cognizant Architecture A sentient maze built with swarm intelligence. Proceedings of the International Conference on Education and Research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe, Vol. 2 (pp 201-208)
- The influence of Saudi Arabian culture on energy use: Improving the time-use schedules in energy simulation for houses in Riyadh. "Hello, Culture!"- CAAD Futures 2019 (pp 536-552), 26 June 2019 - 28 June 2019.
- Koala: Developing a generative house design system with agent-based modelling of social spatial processes. 24th International Conference of the Association for Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia (CAADRIA) 2019, Vol. 1 (pp 235-244), 15 April 2019 - 18 April 2019.
- Understanding occupant behaviour in Islamic homes to close the gap in building performance simulation: A case study of houses in Riyadh. Building Simulation Conference Proceedings, Vol. 3 (pp 2107-2114)
- BIM2PHPP: A new BIM-based tool for passivhaus design with PHPP. Building Simulation Conference Proceedings, Vol. 1 (pp 100-105)
- . Proceedings of the International Conference on Education and Research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe, Vol. 1 (pp 703-710)
- Prototyping Adaptive Architecture - Balancing Flexibility of Folding Patterns and Adaptability of Micro-Kinetic Movements. Computing for a better tomorrow - Proceedings of the 36th eCAADe Conference - Volume 2, Vol. 2. Lodz, Poland
- Feather-inspired social media data processing for generating developable surfaces: Prototyping an affective architecture Prototyping an affective architecture. ECAADE 2017: SHARING OF COMPUTABLE KNOWLEDGE! (SHOCK!), VOL 1 (pp 181-190)
- Automatic Calculation Of A New China Glare Index. Proceedings of BSO 2016. Newcastle, UK, 12 September 2016 - 14 September 2016.
- Building massing optimisation in early design stage: A performance-driven design based on total sunlight hours evaluation. Proceedings of the 20th Conference on Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia (pp 583-592)
- Reasoning Spatial Relationships in Building Information Models using Voxels. Proceedings of the 32nd International Conference on Education and research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe (pp 465-471). Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, 10 September 2014 - 12 September 2014.
- Tessellating freeform surfaces with boundary-driven analysis. Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia (pp 873-882)
- Data Acquisition and Visualization for IEQ Assessment: A case study of daylight field measurement. PLEA 2013
- . International Conference on Cleantech for Smart Cities & Buildings-From Nano to Urban Scale. EPFL-Lausanne, Switzerland, 4 September 2013 - 6 September 2013.
- Data Sharing for Sustainable Assessments: Using Functional Databases for Interoperating Multiple Building Information Structures. Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Computer Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia (pp 193-202). Chennai, India, 25 April 2012 - 28 April 2012.
- Framework for sustainable building design. Proceedings of the 14th Conference on Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia (pp 43-52). Yulin, Taiwan
- Procedural Reconstruction of NURBS Surfaces. Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia (pp 597-606). Yulin, Taiwan, 22 April 2009.
- Integrating sustainable building rating systems with building information models. Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia (pp 193-200)
- Fault Detection and Localization using IFC: A Case Study of BIM-based Visualisation of BAS-related Faults. CIBSE Technical Symposium 2019, 25 April 2019 - 26 April 2019.
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