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Academic Staff
Dr Paola Boarin
Associate Professor
Co-founder and co-director
Research interests:
- Sustainable design
- Rating tools
- Post-occupancy evaluation
- Sustainable heritage conservation
- Design technology
Prof Errol Haarhoff
Emeritus Professor
Co-founder and inaugural co-director
Research interests:
- Urban Design
- Urban Settlement History
- Urban Growth Management
- Urban Intensification and housing
- Modern Architecture History
Dr Alessandro Premier
Senior Lecturer
Co-director
Research interests:
- Advanced façade design
- Responsive architecture
- Smart materials
- Building retrofit
- Sustainable design strategies and innovation
- Colour and light in architecture
Patricia Austin
Senior Lecturer
Research interests:
- Planning and affordable housing
- Sustainable housing, eco-districts and eco-towns
- Planning for an ageing population
- Planning for disabled access
- Designing inclusive accessible built environments
- Crime prevention, safer cities and communities
- Planning and injury prevention
- Strategies for more sustainable urban futures
Priscila Besen
Certified Passive House Designer
Research interests:
- Environmental design
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Building energy retrofit
- Passive House standard in temperate and warm climates
- Post-occupancy evaluation
- Sustainable neighbourhood design
- Social and affordable housing
I-Ting Chuang
Lecturer
Research interests:
- Informed Urban Design
- Urban and Architecture Development
- Spatial quality of public spaces
- Design informatics in urban geography
- Big data analytics in urban studies
Dr Emilio Garcia
Lecturer
Research interests:
- Resilience, inequality and affordability
- Resilience of compact and disperse urban landscapes
- Adaptive change, transformative change and collapse in cities
- Panarchy, adaptive cycles, thresholds, and multiple stability states in built environments
- Measurement of resilience and heterogeneity of urban landscapes
- Resilience and Inheritance.
Dr Kai Gu
Associate Professor
Research interests:
- Urban morphology and urban design
- Methods of characterising and managing the urban landscape
- Urban planning and design of Chinese cities
Dr Stephen Knight-Lenihan
Senior Lecturer
Research interests:
- Climate change mitigation and adaptation at a local government level
- Biodiversity offsets in urban environments
- Ecological resilience and social-ecological systems
- Integrated catchment management
Dr Manfredo Manfredini
Associate Professor
Research interests:
- Urban design history, theory and criticism
- Architecture and spatial design history, theory and criticism
- Affordable and social housing history, theory and practice
- Modern European architecture history, theory and criticism
- Sustainable development
- Education in architecture
Dr Mohsen Mohammadzadeh
Senior Lecturer
Research interests:
- Critical Urban Theory
- Globalisation and Planning in the Emerging Global Cities
- Planning and Urban Conflicts
- Smart City, Cybernetic Technology and Ethics of Big Data
- Transportation and Infrastructure Planning
Dr Sarosh Mulla
Senior Lecturer
Research interests:
- Design research in architecture
- Architects in the expanded field
- Optical effects in architecture
- Contemporary architectural practice
Dr Ferdinand Oswald
Senior Lecturer
Research interests:
- Construction Detailing and Building Technologies
- Facade Design Strategies
- Optimizing Natural Ventilation
- Low -Tech architecture
- Reuse, recycling and separability of building components
Ms Julie Stout
Professional Teaching Fellow
Research interests:
- Urban form and typologies
- Public space
- Cultural influence on urban space
- Effect of sea-level rise on cities
Dr Marjorie van Roon
Senior Lecturer
Research interests:
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Water Sensitive Design
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Low Impact Urban Design and Development
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Integrated Catchment Management
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Aquatic ecosystem health in urban catchments
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Climate change adaptation through ecosystems
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Kaitiakitanga and urban waterways
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Greening cities
Dr Timothy Welch
Senior Lecturer
Research interests:
- Transportation service connectivity and equity
- Methods to incorporate big data into transportation analysis
- Infrastructure investments and housing values
- Planning for non-motorized and emerging transport modes
PhD Students
Luis Medrano Gomez
PhD Candidate
Research interests:
- Building retrofit
- Post-occupancy evaluation
- Energy codes and regulations
- Energy performance gap
- Human-building interaction
- Rebound effect
Akram Fatourehchi Shabestari
PhD Candidate
Research interests:
- Cultural Ecosystem Services
- Indigenous Environmental Stewardship
- Participatory Action Research
- Participatory–based Assessment of Environmental Effects (AEE)
Joemier Pontawe
PhD Candidate
Research interests:
- Public transportation planning
- Climate change mitigation in the transport sector
- Active transportation and micromobility
- Paratransit and other informal transport services
- Local government / subnational level government planning and governance
Sameh Shamout
PhD Candidate
Research interests:
- Sustainable design
- Green building technologies
- Existing buildings retrofits
- Passive design solutions
- Urban Resilience
- Recovery/rebuilt
Jane Waterhouse
PhD Candidate
Research interests:
- Health and environmental design
- Housing and aging in place
- Therapeutic environments, Person – Environment theories
- Environmental Psychology
- Phenomenology and embodiment
- Place and social construction of space