Conference Agenda

Overview and details of the sessions of this conference. Please select a date or location to show only sessions at that day or location. Please select a single session for detailed view (with abstracts and downloads if available).

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Mercer Salon I
Mercer Salon
Pittman
Ardmore
Centennial
Candler
Breakout Hallway
No specific location / location unknown
8:00am
9:00am
10:00am
11:00am
12:00pm
1:00pm
2:00pm
3:00pm
4:00pm
5:00pm
6:00pm
PL3: Closing Ceremony: AI and the Built Environment / Best Paper and Poster Awards
12:00pm - 1:30pm
Mercer Salon I
Location: Mercer Salon I

Title: AI and the Built Environment: Local Applications of a Global Technology

Speakers:

  • Edgar Stach, Thomas Jefferson University
  • Nathaniel Steinrueck, IQVIA  
  • Akhil Hemanth, Newcomb & Boyd

Moderator:

  • Arash Soleimani, Woodbury University

Description

This plenary examines the expanding role of artificial intelligence across the architecture and construction ecosystem.

L3/P3: Lunch 3
12:00pm - 1:30pm
Mercer Salon
Location: Mercer Salon
H9: Historical Persperctive and Grounded Practices 9
8:30am - 10:00am
Pittman
Jinoh Park
Location: Pittman
Session Chair: Jinoh Park, University of Arkansas

Beyond the Spectacle: Reclaiming Vernacular Planning through Quanzhou’s PuJing Temple System

Junchi Fang1, Yue Liu2

1: Cornell University, United States of America; 2: National University of Singapore, Singapore



Reimagining Heritage: Adaptive Reuse of Atlanta’s 1922 Carnegie Library Emphasizing Sustainability, Health, and Community Connectedness

Tyrone Marshall1,2, Melody Harclerode3, Marcelo Bernal1, Patrick Kastner2

1: Perkins&Will, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America; 2: Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America; 3: SPIKE Studio



Pahlavani Playground: Participatory Urban Repair in Zahedan’s Informal Settlements (Iran, 2020–2021)

Samira Sarabandikachyani, Alireza Abrin

University of Cincinnati, United States of America

W10: Design for Health and Wellbeing 10
10:30am - 12:00pm
Pittman
Traci Rider
Location: Pittman
Session Chair: Traci Rider, North Carolina State University, United States of America

Streets of Heat and Hazard: A Pre-Relocation Architectural Analysis of White Horse Road through Adolescent Eyes

Shanshan Hu, Lyndsey Deaton, Leonor Fleming, Zahra Ghazanfari

Clemson University, United States of America



Illuminating Spaces Between: The Compressed, Quiet + Sacred Urban Typologies of Tokyo

Veronica Zhong1, Brian R. Sinclair1,2

1: University of Calgary, Calgary, AB; 2: sinclairstudio Inc., Calgary, AB



Data Centres and Their Integration to Local Environments in Three Distinct Areas of Metro Atlanta

Mine H Hashas-Degertekin

Kennesaw State University, United States of America

P9: Pedagogies of Engagements 9
8:30am - 10:00am
Ardmore
Kelly Riedesel
Location: Ardmore
Session Chair: Kelly Riedesel, Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Social Cohesion | Playful Artful Temporary Artifacts

Zamila Karimi, Quincy Smith, Tim Anderson

Kennesaw State University, United States of America



Emergent Collaboration Through Rule-Based Fabrication

Armando Araiza

University of Texas at San Antonio, United States of America



Analog Precision In Localized Resilient Fabrication

Armando Araiza

University of Texas at San Antonio, United States of America

T10: Technologies of Place 10
10:30am - 12:00pm
Ardmore
Jeffrey Collins
Location: Ardmore
Session Chair: Jeffrey Collins, Kennesaw State University

From Local Prototype to Global Paradigm: Recrafting Housing with New Technology

Scott Gerald Shall1, Breck Crandell2, JT King3

1: LTU and houm PLLC, United States of America; 2: Three Squared Inc and houm PLLC, United States of America; 3: Royal Development, United States of America



Towards a Fungal Architecture? A Study on the Acceptability of Mycelium through Focus Groups with Construction Professionals

Elisa Hofmann, Audrey Mertens

University of Liège, Belgium



Growing Bricks: Mycelium as Building Material

Jay Yowell

Oklahoma state university, United States of America

T9: Technologies of Place 9
8:30am - 10:00am
Centennial
Michael Kleiss
Location: Centennial
Session Chair: Michael Kleiss, University of Maryland

Deployment Control of Reconfigurable Polyhedral Structures for Designing Emergency Shelters

Aysan Mokhtarimousavi1, Vincent Blouin2, Farzad Saeidi Samet3, Michael Kleiss4

1: Clemson University, Clemson, SC; 2: Clemson University, Clemson, SC; 3: University of Nevada, Las Vegas; 4: University of Maryland, College Park, MD



Streamlining the Architectural Design Process of High-Performance Buildings with Analytical Target Cascading

Farbod khalili, Vincent Blouin

Clemson University, United States of America



AI, Urban Informality, and the Politics of Spatial Recognition

Taraneh Meshkani

Kent State University, United States of America

T11: Technologies of Place 11
10:30am - 12:00pm
Centennial
Arief Setiawan
Location: Centennial
Session Chair: Arief Setiawan, Kennesaw State University

Soft Shells: Carbon-Absorbing Concrete Structures through Fabric Formwork

Harnoor Singh, Sangram Ramesh Shinde, Aanchal Ram Kanojia, Christopher Pastore, Yao Lu

Thomas Jefferson University, United States of America



Embedding Structural Behavior Through Stitching in Fabric Formwork for Thin Concrete Shells

Ertunc Hunkar, Lavender Tessmer

Clemson University, United States of America



From Hanging to Standing: Fabric-Formed Catenary Arches as Scalable Concrete Building Components

Lavender Tessmer2, Aysan Mokhtarimousavi1, Vivian Nguyen4, Farzad Saeidi Samet3

1: Clemson University, United States of America; 2: Clemson University, United States of America; 3: Clemson University, United States of America; 4: University of Nevada, Las Vegas

W9: Design for Health and Wellbeing 9
8:30am - 10:00am
Candler
Soo Jeong Jo
Location: Candler
Session Chair: Soo Jeong Jo, Louisiana State University
8:30am - 8:50am

Could Spatial Distributions on School Campuses be Correlated with Children’s Physical Activity and Sedentary Behavior?

Shreyonti Chakraborty1, Clarice MDL Martins2, Luis CB Silva3, Cecilia Tenorio1, Rafael M Tassitano1

1: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States of America; 2: University of Porto, Portugal; 3: University of Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil



8:50am - 9:10am

Preserving Women’s Social Networks in Informal Housing Redevelopment: Local Strategies for Gender-Equitable Urban Futures

Uchita Vaid, Yaoyi Zhou

University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States of America



9:10am - 9:30am

Environmental Design Factors in Telehealth Spaces: A Spatial Response to the Global Crisis of Unequal Healthcare Access

Farzane Omidi1, Debajyoti Pati2, Cameron Brown2

1: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa; 2: Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas



9:30am - 9:40am

Prediction of Overall Thermal Comfort of Radiant Heating Systems Using Experimental Local Comfort Data- A Machine Learning Approach

Abdulrahim Rezaee Parsa1, Mona Azarbayjani1, Seyed Mohammad Hooshmand2, Fatemeh Rafiepur Gatabi3, Hui Zhang4, Andreas Wagner2

1: University of North Carolina at Charlotte, United States of America; 2: Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany; 3: Azad University of Tehran, Iran; 4: Center for the Built Environment at UC Berkeley, United States of America

CB_11_1: Coffee Break 1
10:00am - 10:30am
Breakout Hallway
Location: Breakout Hallway
Tour_1: Atlanta's Beltline
1:30pm - 2:30pm
Tour_2: Portman's Atlanta
1:30pm - 2:30pm