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Professor Faoro is an Associate Professor in the Department of Architecture. He teaches and coordinates the structural systems courses in the Department of Architecture and teaches upper-division comprehensive and capstone studios in the senior year. His students have received awards for their work and presented research at national conferences. He has lectured, presented, and published multiple papers on architecture and sustainability and co-authored a section of a monograph on research in professional ethics in architecture. He has co-authored research in applied and professional ethics. His interests involve the use of technology in education and assessment methodologies, energy conservation, bio-climatic design, building simulation, and buildings systems integration. His students have won seven ASHRAE international competition awards in integrated sustainable building design categories. He is a contributor to the ASHRAE Green Guide section on architecture. He is a paper reviewer for the Architectural Resources Centers Consortium (ARCC) and TAD a journal on technology and research in architecture. He has served as an editor for five university-based publications and booklets on urban design and architecture. He has been a founder and committee member of the USGBC Detroit student Design Competition.
Collaborator: Nickola Gjurchinoski, Research Assistant
This work strives to improve the existing guidelines in the field of Bioclimatic Building Design by employing computer simulations, and examination of new building parameters to provide architects and engineers direction in the early stages of building design for energy reduction. The research tests prototype model(s) in energy analysis software to examine if the recommended guidelines are in fact leading to low energy use and if the guidelines have variable outcomes if some parameters are modified, e.g., building size, floor area contained etc. This knowledge will serve to validate and qualify beyond generalities the existing bioclimatic design guideline recommendations. It will then be used as a basis to expand the design guidelines on past work completed by Professors -Victor Olgay, Norbert Lechner and by Shahin Vassigh et.al. The purpose of this study and effort is to utilize current energy modeling software to generate basic design strategies relative to building form, shape, and spatial characteristics, orientation, envelope profile, and location of low level conditioning spaces and professional standard reference data of climatic conditions of selected climate zones/types.
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