Building Technology Program Theses: Recent submissions

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    • Building archetype calibration for effective urban building energy modeling 

      Cerezo Davila, Carlos (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)
      In response to the current environmental challenges, city governments worldwide are developing action plans to both reduce GHG emissions and increase the resilience of their built environment. Given the relevance of energy ...

    • Validated interactive daylighting analysis for architectural design 

      Jones, Nathaniel Louis (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)
      The conventional approach to predicting interior illumination and visual discomfort in buildings is to run a ray tracing simulation with high accuracy settings, wait while the simulation processes, and repeat as necessary ...

    • Structural grid shell design with Islamic pattern topologies 

      Khouri, Noor K (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)
      Geometric patterns, pioneered centuries ago as a dominant form of ornamentation in Islamic architecture, represent an abundant source of possible topologies and geometries that can be explored in the preliminary design of ...