TP3C research team met with the Advisory Board Members on February 24, 2025. TP3C Advisory Board members include leading professionals from local and national/international organizations, as well as advocates of architectural research: Dr. Mahsa Farid Mohajer (Sustainable Building Analyst, Stantec), David Green (Master Planning Urban Design Leader and Principal, Arup), Dr. Mic Patterson (Ambassador of […]
Read MoreProfessor Ajla Aksamija was recently interviewed by Dr. Franca Trubiano, Associate Professor and the Graduate Group Chair of the PhD Program in Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania. The interview was published in the American Institute of Architects (AIA) Philadelphia Context Magazine Winter 2025 issue, focusing on architectural research. Professor Aksamija and Dr. Trubiano discussed […]
Read MoreProfessor Ajla Aksamija will present an invited lecture at the Lawrence Technological University (LTU) College of Architecture and Design on Monday, February 17, 2025 at 6 PM. Professor Aksamija’s lecture “Innovations in Architectural Design: Research and Advanced Technologies” is part of LTU’s lecture series, Design x Technology. This lecture focuses on innovations in architecture, relationships […]
Read MoreTP3C research team led community engagement workshops for the Liberty Park Greenhouse (LPG) Revitalization Study on January 27 and 28, 2025. These workshops were organized to review to-date findings of the study, archival/historical research, measurements and observations of LPG’s current conditions, as well as digital model and architectural documentation developed by the TP3C research team. […]
Read MoreTP3C is pleased to welcome Dr. Emmanuel Aghimien as a Post-Doctoral Fellow to the School of Architecture at the University of Utah. He holds a Ph.D. in Architectural Engineering from the City University of Hong Kong, where his research concentrated on modeling solar radiation, daylight, and sky models, and their impact on energy-efficient bioclimatic building […]
Read MoreProfessor Ajla Aksamija led a four-day workshop on innovations in architecture, organized by the Bosnian-Herzegovinian American Academy of Arts and Sciences (BHAAAS) and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Diaspora Invest project in Bosnia and Herzegovina, from December 9 to 13, 2024. Professor Aksamija first presented a public lecture, “Innovation in Architecture: Design, […]
Read MoreSuncica Milosevic and Prof. Timothy Adekunle presented a paper “Evaluating Building Performance of an Existing Research Laboratory Building: Energy-Efficiency and Indoor Environmental Quality” at the Comfort At The Extremes (CATE) 2024 Conference in Seville, Spain (November 20-22, 2024). The paper, co-authored with Prof. Ajla Aksamija, presents a study on indoor environmental quality (IEQ) and building […]
Read MoreTP3C is teaming up with the Salt Lake City Corporation and Dr. Michael Mayo, Professor Emeritus at the Department of Marketing & Entrepreneurship, Kent State University to study retrofit design strategies for the Liberty Park Greenhouse. The project is part of the Salt Lake City Capital Improvement Program (CIP). The Liberty Park Greenhouse is an […]
Read MoreFacade World Congress 2024 was held at the University of Utah School of Architecture (SoA) from October 8 to 10. Organized by the Facade Tectonics Institute and the SoA, the Congress brought together architects, engineers, contractors, manufacturers, researchers, and academics from around the world. The event included fifty presentations of peer-reviewed papers, keynotes, panel discussions, […]
Read MoreTP3C’s research on intelligent facades has been featured by the Building Design + Construction network. An article “Could ‘smart’ building facades heat and cool buildings?” discusses the development, testing and benefits of active facade systems that integrate thermoelectric materials. Thermoelectric materials are smart materials that can produce a temperature gradient when electricity is applied, exploiting […]
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