MSc ARCHITECTURE AND ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN

Course Leader

Dr Rosa Schiano-Phan

Course Info

MSc Architecture and Environmental Design


Tutors

Dr Rosa Schiano Phan

r.schianophan@westminster.ac.uk

Rosa has over 20 years’ experience in the field of environmental design, devoting most of her career to teaching, research and consultancy, working for global organisations and with international partners. She was formerly a Research Fellow at University of Nottingham and Senior Lecturer at the Architectural Association. She is co-director of Natural Cooling Limited and co-author of The Architecture of Natural Cooling, published in 2020.

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Dr Juan Vallejo

j.vallejo@westminster.ac.uk

Juan Vallejo is an architect graduated from the School of Architecture of the University of Granada in 2010. He completed his postgraduate studies in Sustainable Environmental Design in the AA School of Architecture in 2013 and was awarded PhD at the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Nottingham in 2018. His expertise lies in the field of building environmental simulation software tools, natural ventilation and passive evaporative cooling. Juan is Visiting Lecturer in Architecture and Environmental Design (MSc) at the Faculty of Architecture and Built Environment of the University of Westminster, where he regularly lectures on environmental design principles, passive design techniques and building simulation tools.

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Zhenzhou Weng

z.weng2@westminster.ac.uk

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Professor Joana Soares Goncalves

J.Soaresgoncalves1@westminster.ac.uk

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Kartikeya Rajput

K.Rajput@westminster.ac.uk

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Amedeo Scofone

A.Scofone@westminster.ac.uk

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Mehrdad Borna

M.Borna@westminster.ac.uk

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Acknowledgements

We are particulary grateful to the Quintin Hogg Tusts (QHT) for funding the provision of environmental sensing kits to students.

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In the academic year 2020/21, the Architecture and Environmental Design MSc, having started in January and moved online, focused on the investigation of the environmental performance of work and live environments during the pandemic. Thanks to the QHT Online Learning Experience fund 2020, the students were included in an unprecedented experiment, called ‘Sensing the Changing Environment’, involving the simultaneous environmental monitoring and analysis of their own residences around world. This study will lead to the semester 2 design brief on ‘Designing for the Changing Environment in the times of the Pandemic’ started in May 2021. Proposals for the complete re-imagination of the studied sites will be offered by the students with attention to the compounding requirements of a post-pandemic society, climate change and resources conservation.

The course successfully continues the Collaborative Thesis Programme with Industry and the BREEAM Approved Graduate course, while gaining Learning Affiliate status with the Energy Institute. These initiatives have led to joint publications and employment opportunities for our students.

Special thanks: Christian Dimbleby (Architype), Catherine Harrington (Architype), Dean Hawkes,

Phil McIlwain (Westminster Council), Andrew Moore (Hilson Moran), Filomena Russo.

Student names: Amal Breika, Anastasiia Babenko, Cynthia Espinola Cano, Dagyeong Kang, Dalia Safar, Dhrumil Patel, Diana Criollo Guaman, Edlira Kraja, Ezgi Ercan, Gaelle Letort, Genievee Tapia, Gursharan Randhawa, Iyad El-Beaini, Liam Rollings, Maria Angiulli, Maria Makhlouf, Marie Haase, Megha Menon, Sarumela Vijaiyalan, Sylvia Segovia Franco, Uzma Shaikh, Wei Gao, Zain Shaikh.

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