CAMPBELL HALL ADDITION

The University of Virginia School of Architecture is planning for a new building to host office and studio spaces, and this course entertained potential facade interventions focused on performance-based designs. 

UVA’s building portfolio already includes several buildings that claim energy efficiency with LEED certifications, but case study analysis of those buildings proves otherwise. A popular mechanism to achieve these so-called efficiencies are combinations of frit and fins or louvers, and this project is thus a challenge of actually achieving efficiencies with those mechanics for the new architecture building. 

Analytical and design tools used in the class included Tableau, Rhino3D, Climate Studio Solemma, and Grasshopper, curating a workflow based on iterative feedback loops, grounding design interventions in spatialized energy data points and analysis of deltas to achieve efficiencies.