57th International Conference of the

Architectural Science Association (ANZAScA)

26 – 29 Nov 2024, Gold Coast, Australia

ASA 2024

Harmony in Architectural Science and Design: Sustaining the Future

ASA 2024 Conference Program

                           Tuesday 26th November 2024

From 1:00 pm

Registration Opens
Building G40 Level 5 Foyer

                         CONCURRENT WORKSHOP SESSIONS

2:00- 4:00 pm

Immersive Horizons: Shaping Tomorrow’s Architecture with VR

Mr Soroush Masoumzadeh, UniSA

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Introductory
Exploration of Life Cycle Assessment
 

Dr Despina Linaraki, GU

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5:30-6:00 pm

Opening Ceremony (Open to the public)

Welcome to the delegates, Dr Fan Zhang & Dr Cecilia Bischeri

Welcome to Griffith University, Associates Professor Andrew Busch – Head of School Engineering and Built Environment

Address from the President of the ASA, Dr Christopher Jensen


G40_5.63 Griffith Auditorium

6:00-7:20 pm

Keynote Speech 1: Architecture’s Role in Sustaining the Future (Open to the public)

Ms Ali Bounds & Mr Neil Logan, BVN Co-CEO

Chair: Mr Joe Snell, Director, Studio Snell

G40_5.63 Griffith Auditorium

7:20 pm-9:00 pm

Welcome drinks and canapes
Building G40 Level 5 Foyer

                            Wednesday 27th November 2024

From 8:00 am

Registration Opens
Building G40 Level 5 Foyer

9:00-10:20 am

Keynote Speech 2: Economic Development Queensland’s role in shaping a thriving health and knowledge economy

Mr Gareth Richardson, development Manager, Economic Development Queensland

Chair: Dr Tinting Liu
G40_5.60 Lecture Theatre 1

10:20-11:00 am

Group Photo & Morning Tea
Building G40 Level 5 Foyer

                            PARALLEL SESSIONS

11:00 am-
12:30 pm

Session 01: Architectural/building science, Indoor environment quality

Chair: Prof Richard Hyde 

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11:00 AM| Reducing Traffic Noise for Indoor
Comfort: Wing Cheong Estate, Hong Kong – Improvements with Different
Inclination Angles 

Ferdinand Oswald 

11:15 AM| An exploration of energy outcomes
in 32 homes in Victoria 

Pabasara Upalakshi Wijeratne 

11:30 AM| Improvement of heat exchange
efficiency of combined heat recovery ventilation system with phase change
materials for external load reduction 

Yongjun Choi 

11:45 AM| Thermal comfort evaluation of an
indoor thermal environment control algorithm using a metabolic rate estimation
model 

Ji Young Yun 

 12:00 PM| Multimodal machine learning model for thermal comfort prediction using
infrared facial thermal images and tabular data 

Haifeng Lan 

 

Session 02: Architecture, design and environment

Chair: Dr Rongrong Yu

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11:00 AM| Cinematic Echoes: Exploring the
Spectrum of Misery and Dignity in Mexico City’s Forgotten Cinemas 

Juan Carlos Dall’Asta 

11:15 AM| Re-designing the Australian dream:
Homeness imaginaries in emerging residential typologies 

Caroline Dahl 

11:30 AM| Towards a Comprehensive Definition
of Circular Building Through Qualitative Meta-synthesis 

Fernando Pavez 

11:45 AM| Harmony in the House: Qajar
Architecture through a comparative case study of six houses 

Azin Ehteshami  

12:00 PM| Exploring social sustainability in
the built environment: definitions, dimensions, and implications 

Azra Zainab Shabbir Ahamed 

  

 

 

Session 03: Building and energy simulation prediction, and evaluation

Chair: Dr Mark Dewsbury

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11:00 AM| Analysing the Impact of Interest Rate on the Feasibility of Using Different Window Classes in Residential Buildings 

Mikael Gilbert 

11:15 AM| Lessons Learned from Calibrating the Simulation Model Using Measured Data 

Hirda Lailani Khalid 

11:30 AM| Evaluation of ventilation options for an urban childcare centre 

Sanuj Bandara 

11:45 AM| Optimizing landfilling fees for construction waste: A dynamic multi-objective optimization approach balancing environmental and economic performance 

 Wenbo Zhao 

12:00 PM| Innovative Trombe wall technology applicable to north-facing facade for increase energy efficiency of public buildings 

Seong Taek Kang 

 

 

 

 

12:30-1:30 pm

Lunch

Building G40 Level 5 Foyer

                      PARALLEL SESSIONS

1:30-3:00 pm

Session 04: Architecture, design and environment

Chair: A/Prof Ju Hyun Lee

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1:30 PM| Addressing the ‘recovery window’:
shifting approaches in post-disaster shelter strategies 

Subin Umar Rahman 

1:45 PM| Towards an Immersive Design
Experience: Initial User Requirements to Integrate Parametric Design with
Virtual Reality 

Hamidreza Sakhaei 

2:00 PM| A theoretical framework for
development of virtual environments to aid contextual architecture 

Soroush Masoumzadeh Sayyar  

2:15 PM| Designing in Different Realities:
How Virtual Environment Fidelity Influences Design Thinking—Insights from Pilot
Studies 

Soroush Masoumzadeh Sayyar 

2:30 PM| Nature-experiential archetypes:
Learnings from the Gandhi Ashram 

Archie Arvindbhai Patel 

 

 

Session 05: Building resilience, sustainability, and life cycle analysis

Chair: Prof Robort Crawford

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1:30 PM| Sustaining the Future by Using
University Campuses as Material and Greenhouse Gas Emissions Banks 

André Stephan 

1:45 PM| Sizing up new housing in Victoria:
An interdisciplinary perspective on housing sufficiency 

Nicola Willand  

2:00 PM| Enhancing and harmonizing
environmental sustainability and circularity through timber hybrid building. 

Bigyeong Shin 

2:15 PM| Comparison of process-based and
hybrid life cycle inventory data for environmental benchmarks of residential
buildings 

Lise Mouton 

2:30 PM| Life cycle greenhouse gas emissions
of energy retrofitting strategies for residential buildings in India: A case
study 

Nayanika Bora 

 

 

 

3:00-4:00
pm

Afternoon Tea, Visit Griffith University Architecture Students End-of-year-Exhibition
Building G40 Level 5 Foyer and Building G39

                      PARALLEL SESSIONS

4:00-5:30 pm

Session 06: Design education and research

Chair: Ms Susan Wake

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4:00 PM| Integrative AI in Architecture:
Towards a Conversational Design Process 

Juan Carlos Dall’Asta 

4:15 PM| Viral architecture or the
unintentional architecture criticism of social media 

Ines Consuela Essen 

4:30 PM| Barriers and Opportunities in Online
Delivery of Architecture and Building Design Studios: Australian Educators’
Perspectives 

Peter Lawrence 

4:45 PM| Through the Forest of Extraneous
Things: Exploring Cognitive Load Theory and Architectural Design Studio
Andragogy 

Daniel Gibbs 

5:00 PM| Workshopping architectural
acoustics pedagogies 

Michael Mack 

Session 07: Building materials and indoor environment quality

Chair: Dr Ferdinand Oswald

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4:00 PM| Decoding Office Satisfaction: What
Drives Positive and Negative Experiences for Occupants. 

Maryam Khoshbakht 

4:15 PM| An investigation of occupant window
opening behaviour in residential aged care facilities during winter in
Adelaide, Australia 

Ali Malekpour 

4:30 PM| An evaluation of methods to
determine the water vapour diffusion resistivity properties of Australian
plantation timber commonly used in construction  

Mark Dewsbury 

4:45 PM| Investigating the impact of
emissivity of fully glazed facades on the outdoor thermal environment 

Elham Sanagar Darban

5:00 PMRecycling waste banners into eco-friendly insulation for sustainable building materials

Dongchan Jin

Session 08: Online Session 1

Chair: Dr Cecilia Bischeri

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4:00 PM| Verticality, density and porosity
equilibrium for yielding desirable microclimatic conditions 

Ruffina Thilakaratne  

4:15 PM| Analysis of Interior Colour Schemes
in New Zealand Architectural Spaces 

Megan Jan Burfoot 

4:30 PM| Pedagogical Benefits of Embedding
Project-Based Learning (PBL) into the Architectural Curriculum: A Case Study 

John Latto 

4:45 PM| Why don’t we see more examples in
Australia of sustainability retrofits initiated by apartment owners? 

Denise Ryan 

5:00 PM| Implications of Building Information Modelling (BIM) on project performance in
high-end 
residential
projects amidst economic crises: A case study of Sri Lanka (2020 – 2023)  

Dona Hashini Anuradha Wijesinghe 

                                                                                Thursday 28th November 2024

From
8:00 am

Registration Opens
Building G40 Level 5 Foyer

9:00-10:20
am

Keynote Speech 3: Beyond traditional architectural science research

Prof Veronica Soebarto, The University of Adelaide

Chair: Dr Fan Zhang

G40_5.60 Lecture Theatre 1

10:20-11:00
am

Morning Tea
Building G40 Level 5 Foyer

                 PARALLEL SESSIONS

11:00 am-
12:30 pm

 

Session 09: Architectural/building science, Indoor environment quality

Chair: Dr Mary Myla

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11:00 AM| A discrete choice experiment
approach towards students’ preferences of the lighting and acoustic condition
in a virtual classroom 

Cynthia Hou 

11:15 AM| Social factors driving adaptive
behaviours for indoor comfort: Towards a framework for effective integration 

Francisca Rodriguez 

11:30 AM| The thermal qualities of the living
environments of older South Australians: an examination of two cohorts 

Larissa Arakawa Martins 

11:45 AM| A Novel Approach to Investigate the
Impact of Building Features on Occupant Behaviours: A Case Study of Low
Socio-Economic Older People in South Australia 

Shadi Jamialahmadi 

12:00 PM| The Effect of Indoor Temperature
and Task Complexity on the Cognitive Performance of Office Workers 

Sadia Israt Anam 

Session 10: Architecture, design and environment

Chair: Prof Ning Gu

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11:00 AM| Floating and stilt houses in Agusan
Marsh, Philippines: Vernacular architecture and water urbanism in the 21st
century 

Isidoro R. Malaque III  

11:15 AM| Optimizing Building Performance: A
Systematic Literature Review on Harnessing AI in Early Design Stages 

Arianna Brambilla  

11:30 AM| Good medium: better maximum 

Guy Marriage  

11:45 AM| Housing Tomorrow: Challenges and
opportunities for prefabricated medium density housing in New Zealand 

Megan Scholtz 

12:00 PM| Designing climate-responsive built
and living environments: perceptions of barriers and facilitators among design
practitioners 

Sareh Moosavi 

 

12:30-
1:30 pm

Lunch Building

G40 Level 5 Foyer

                 PARALLEL SESSIONS

1:30 pm –
3:00 pm

Session 11: Building and energy simulation, prediction, and evaluation

Chair: Prof Mark Luther

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1:30 PM| Bio-Hygrothermal Performance of Clay Masonry Veneer Wall Systems in Southeast Australian Residential Buildings: A Comparison from 6 Star to 7 Star with AEH 0.250, 0.375 

Liqun Guan 

1:45 PM| Assessing the cooling effect of novel photonic meta-concrete on buildings with and without thermal insulation 

Nick Adams 

2:00 PM| Decarbonization of PV homes through services system electrification 

Zheng Wang 

2:15 PM| Home is where the HRV is: A workflow to proliferate the Passive House standard in Australia 

Noah Soderlund 

2:30 PM| Input for building energy
modelling: Automatic 3D geometry model processing from UAV images 

Mengfan Jin  

Session 12: Cities and outdoor environment 

Chair: Prof Isidoro Malaque III

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1:30 PM| Distant landscapes: Finding harmony
in the work of Roberto Burle Marx 

Susan Wake 

1:45 PM| Oasis Effect for Cooler Cities 

Maria Fernanda Parnenzini 

2:00 PM| An Evidence Based Framework for
Climate-Sensitive Urban Design 

Yisong Liu 

2:15 PM| Multimodal Perception-Driven Safety
Analysis for Urban Street 

Shuyang Li 

2:30 PM| Heat-exposure risks in the construction industry: an analysis of fatal and non-fatal incidents in the United States between 2000 and 2023 

Seyed Armin Mirhosseini 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Session 13: F2F and Online session

Chair: Dr Maryam Khoshbakht

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1:30 PM| A Psarran Analysis: Architectural
Narratives in Taylor Swifts’ Artistic Landscape [ONLINE] 

Siti Balkish Roslan 

1:45 PM| Assessing the Internal Thermal
Comfort of Buildings in The Greater Male Region, Maldives: with Special Reference to Building Practices and Energy Demand perspective on housing sufficiency [ONLINE] 

Ahmed Jinan 

2:00 PM| Integration of Vernacular Design
Principles in Contemporary Buildings: A Comfort Assessment of School Buildings in Colombo, Sri Lanka [ONLINE] 

Tharoosha Sankalpa Karunagoda 

2:15 PM| Developing a comprehensive framework for assessing elder friendly accessibility in mid-rise residential buildings in Colombo, Sri Lanka 

Nesura Tharaka Bulathsinghala 

2:30 PM| Formulating an Index for Pluvial
Flood Resilience in Colombo, Sri Lanka: A Sponge City’s Perspective 

Suvani Manawadu Wickramasinghe 

3:00-3:30
pm

Afternoon Tea
Building G40 Level 5 Foyer

                  PARALLEL SESSIONS

3:30 – 5:00 pm

 Session 14: Cities and outdoor environment

Chair: Dr Ehsan Sharifi

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3:30 PM| Multicriteria framework for land use
planning in watershed areas: Case of Matina river watershed, Davao City,
Philippines 

Isidoro R.
Malaque III 

3:45 PM| Unveiling the design faults of
green roofs as novel urban green spaces for enhanced thermal comfort: Lessons
from Melbourne 

Andrea Pianella  

4:00 PM| What are smart cities good for? What
city-building professionals say about the ‘smart city’ 

Fanni Melles  

4:15 PM| Rethinking the Building Energy Use
from Occupant Aspect 

Shuyang Li 

4:30 PM| Examining the Spatio-Cultural
Characteristics of Ethnic Communities: A Combined Syntactic and Semantic
Approach 

Ling Zhou 

Session 15: Building resilience, sustainability, and life cycle analysis

Chair: Dr Christopher Jensen

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3:30 PM| The reliability and comparability of
Environmental Product Declarations in Australia 

Robert
Crawford  

3:45 PM| Determination of Commercial
Building Solar Admittance Measures for the Next National Construction Code of
Australia 

Paul Bannister  

4:00 PM| Integrating the consideration of
embodied environmental flows into the building design process 

Fabian Prideaux 

4:15 PM| Integrated assessment of the life
cycle greenhouse gas emissions and life cycle costs of a smart heating,
ventilation and air conditioning control system for an office building 

Praddeep Gobinath  

4:30 PM| Addressing interdependencies
between urban ecology and Urban Industrial Buildings (UIBs) in the context of
climate change: a literature review 

Marjan Rafiei 

 

 

 

 

Session 16: Online Session 2

Chair: Dr Tingting Liu

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3:30 PM| Impact of virtual reality on
interior design project assessment: A comparative study at the University of
Buraimi, Oman 

Ahmed Anwar
Kandil 

3:45 PM| A Comparative Study: Vernacular
Timber Construction Techniques of Iranian, Japanese, and Spanish Granary
Structures 

Farkhondeh
Vahdati  

4:00 PM| Examining sound insulation
properties of bamboo-based composite construction material: a literature review 

Farkhondeh Vahdati  

4:15 PM| Building-Integrated Photovoltaics
(BIPV) in Building performance Research – A systematic literature review 

Aanuoluwapo Aderonke Oguntade  

4:30 PM| A rapid prediction model for
building facade solar radiation using random forests 

Jun Hao Chan 

 

 

 

 

6:00-9:00
pm

Conference Dinner

Chair: Dr Rongrong Yu

Southport Yacht Club, 1 Macarthur Parade, Main Beach, Queensland, 4217

                             Friday 29th November 2024

9:00-10:20
am

Keynote Speech 4, Nature in Cities: Exploring Necessary Paradigm Shifts in Urban Design

Prof Ali Cheshmehzangi, Head, School of Architecture, Design and Planning, The University of Queensland

Chair: Dr Cecilia Bischeri

G40_5.60 Lecture Theatre 1 

10:20-11:00
am

Morning Tea
Building G40 Level 5 Foyer

                             PARALLEL SESSIONS

11:00 am-
12:30 pm

Session 17: Architecture, design and environment

Chair: A/Prof Arianna Brambilla

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11:00 AM| Harmony, Vāstu Architecture and
Contemporary Living 

Aparna Datey 

11:15 AM| Sleep in Intensive Care Units: The
Impact of Light Interventions 

Iza Karen Linders 

11:30 AM| Sustainable Acoustics: Sound
Absorptive Mycelium Composites in Architecture 

Brandon Eduardo Martinez 

11:45 PM| Thermal performance of three common
steel facade profiles 

Ricardo Lionar 

 

 

Session 18: Building resilience, sustainability, and life cycle analysis

Chair: Dr Cynthia Hou

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11:00 AM| Embodied greenhouse gas emissions of
the Fusion Modular VPAC system 

Robert Crawford 

11:15 AM| From rooftops to ecosystems:
Understanding the life cycle embodied GHG emissions of green roofs in Melbourne 

Andrea Pianella 

11:30 AM| An approach for comparing the
embodied greenhouse gas emissions of HVAC systems for large volume buildings 

Praddeep Gobinath  

11:45 AM| Policy review and mapping for
building sector decarbonisation – Insights from Australia and New Zealand 

Dilshi Ishanka Dharmarathna 

12:00 PM| Understanding the Differences in
LCA Tools for Building Environmental Impact Assessment: A Comparative Analysis 

Huixin Peng 

Session 19: Theory, practice and community engagement

Chair: A/Prof Daniela Ottmann

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11:00 AM| Temporal Synthesis in Architecture:
Bridging Geography, Material Memories, and Urban Narratives 

Juan Carlos Dall’Asta 

11:15 AM|
Leveraging AI and AR to Revitalize Suzhou’s Canals: 
Enhancing
Sustainable Cultural Heritage Awareness via Participatory Workshops. 

MinJoo Baek 

11:30 AM| Will humans replace AI? A Design
Dilemma 

Surendar Jayachandran 

11:45 AM| Engaging diverse stakeholders:
Integrating wellbeing and sustainability in residential design and construction 

Emma Morse 

 

 

12:30-1:30 pm

Annual General Meeting, Award Ceremony, Announcement of Next Conference

G40_5.60 Lecture Theatre 1

1:30-2:30
pm

Lunch

Building G40 Level 5 Foyer

2:30
pm

End

 

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