Interior Design assistant professor, Dr. Negar Matin, has published a study that advanced the application of data-driven design for minimizing discomfort glare in high-performance sustainable buildings. This study indicates that using responsive facade systems with hourly adaptive control strategies can significantly maintain daylight glare factors such as Daylight Glare Probability (DGPs) within an imperceptible range (<0.35) for an entire year across different design scenarios including different facade configurations, building orientations, and climate zones.
Simulated office diagram from Matin et al.
In this study, computational models were developed by incorporating hourly daylight glare probability (DGP) with occupants’ spatial data and facade active variables to minimize discomfort glare for responsive facades. To consider all possible scenarios, the proposed computational models have been tested 20,736,200 times, and daylight glare probability values at 34,995,328,000 points in the simulated test room were calculated.
This project was funded by the Faculty Investment Program provided by the Vice President for Research and Partnership and the Program for Research Enhancement of the Gibbs College of Architecture at the University of Oklahoma. The project has been conducted in the OU High-Performance Interior Architecture Laboratory in close collaboration with research partners from the GameAbove College of Engineering and Technology at Eastern Michigan University, including Dr. Ali Eydgahi.
Associate Professors Lee Fithian, Ph.D., and Elizabeth Pober have published a chapter in the recently released New Perspectives in Indoor Air Quality, published by Elsevier. Their contribution, titled “Chapter 16 – Architecture and the Challenges of Indoor Air Quality,” examines the relationship between architecture and indoor air quality.
Dr. Ladan Mozaffarian, Assistant Professor of Regional and City Planning, has been selected to serve as Co-Chair of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP) Planners of Color Interest Group (POCIG) for the 2025–2027 term.
The Gibbs College of Architecture is proud to recognize Tahsin Tabassum, a recent graduate of the college’s Master of Regional and City Planning program and current doctoral student at the University of California, Irvine, for receiving the prestigious 2024–2025 American Planning Association (APA) Outstanding Student Award.
