In this month?s IBPSA-NYC meet, we?re switching gears and instead of
exploring simulation tools, we?re taking a look at new and innovative ways
to visualize building performance data. Visualizing performance data to
tell a good story is often under discussed and we hope to pull back the
covers on it a bit. Hope you can join us in this conversation!

IBPSA-USA New York Regional Chapter presents:

Innovative Ways to Visualize Building Performance Data

Location: Arup, 77 Water Street, 4th Floor, New York 10005

Date & Time: Tuesday, September 17, 2013 - 6:00-8:00 PM.

6:00-6:30 PM Networking

6:30-7:00 PM Dhour - Grasshopper Based Visualization Toolkit

Kyle Steinfeld, Assistant Professor, Department of Architecture, University
of California, Berkeley

(Presenting remotely)

7:00-7:15 PM Q & A

7:15-7:45 PM Visualizing Building Performance Data

Neil Katz, Associate, Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, Chicago

7:45-8:00 PM Q & A

Click here to register:
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Descriptions

Presentation 1

Title: Dhour - Grasshopper Based Visualization Toolkit

Kyle Steinfeld, Assistant Professor, Department of Architecture, University
of California, Berkeley

This presentation will detail a new prototyping visualization toolkit
called "Dhour", developed for the Grasshopper visual programming
environment, which enables the situational development of information
graphics. By enabling more nuanced and customizable views of complex data,
the software described here offers designers an exploratory framework in
contrast to the highly directed tools currently available.

About the Speaker: Kyle Steinfeld is an Assistant Professor specializing in
digital design technologies in the Department of Architecture at University
of California Berkeley, where he teaches undergraduate and graduate design
studios, core courses in architectural representation, and advanced
seminars in digital modeling and visualization. Professionally, he has
worked with and consulted for a number of design firms, including Skidmore
Owings and Merrill, Acconci Studio, Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates,
Howler/Yoon, Diller Scofidio Renfro, and TEN Arquitectos. His research
interests include collaborative design technology platforms and bioclimatic
design visualization, and he holds a Masters of Architecture from MIT and a
Bachelor's Degree in Design from the University of Florida.

Presentation 2

Title: Visualizing Building Performance Data

Neil Katz, Associate, Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, Chicago

Visualizing analysis results can be as important as generating the analysis
itself. This information should be presented in a way that non-engineers -
a client, a designer - can understand, and (even more importantly) can be
used as part of the design process to improve and optimize a design; ie.
can be used as a decision-making tool. This is particularly true during the
early design phases of a project.

This presentation highlights examples of visualizing energy and lighting
analysis results, through color-coded graphs, mapping results onto
visually-identifiable building models, and even animating the results
through time. One project will be presented as a case study, and additional
visualization examples will be shown as well.

About the Speaker: Neil Katz is an architect with Skidmore, Owings &
Merrill. His area of expertise is ?computational design?, which includes
parametric and algorithmic design and modeling, building information
modeling, and various kinds of analysis. While computational tools
(computers and applications) are intensely used and developed,
?computational design? is more an approach to design than these tools.

Geometry and visualization are important aspects of his work, which is
primarily immersed in projects as part of the project team, but also
includes research which spans many projects (and some research is
independent of projects).

Neil has taught parametric modeling and various software applications at
the office and at schools of architecture in New York and Chicago
(including: NYU, the New York School of Interior Design, Parsons / the New
School, IIT, and the School of the Art Institute).
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Pallavi Mantha