Solemma Symposia
2020
HOK, LOS ANGELES
DIVA DAY 2015
Architectural Association, London
2018
Cornell University, NYC
DIVA DAY 2014
University of Washington, Seattle
2017
Berkeley, California
DIVA DAY 2013
Thornton Tomasetti, NYC
DIVA DAY 2016
University of Toronto
DIVA DAY 2012
MIT, Cambridge, MA
Solemma Symposium Presentations
Solemma Symposia bring together sustainability enthusiasts to discuss the use of environmental analysis tools in design practice, research and architectural education. Browse our collection of presentations and projects by leading practitioners, educators and scientists that were presented at past events.
COMPLEX LIGHT TRANSPORT THROUGH PRINTED GLASS | 2020
Ramon Weber - MIT Media Lab
ADVANCED DYNAMIC GLAZING CONTROLS | 2020
Galen Burrell - View Inc.
RECENT VISUAL COMFORT WORK | 2020
Madeline Gradillas - Atelier 10
BIOCLIMATIC FACADE DESIGN & OPTIMIZATION | 2020
Christiana Moss - Studio Ma
LOST IN TRANSFORMATION | 2018
Thomas Auer - Technical University of Munich + Transsolar
MULTIDIMENSIONAL URBAN MODELING + BUILDING INTEGRATED AGRICULTURE | 2018
Khadija Benis and Christoph Reinhart - MIT
IMPROVING ELECTRIC LIGHTING THROUGH SPECTRAL MODELING | 2018
Sarah Safranek - Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
ALFA WORKFLOW + FIELD STUDIES | 2018
Jon Sargent and Alstan Jakubiec - Solemma and SUTD
TEACHING BUILDING SCIENCE AS A GAME | 2018
Panelists from MIT, RISD, University of Pennsylvania, Tulane, SUTD, Syracuse University, and Cornell
RELATIVE PERFORMANCE: DESIGNING THE SMART(ER) CITY | 2018
Luc Wilson - KPF
LIGHT IN THE PUBLIC REALM | 2018
James Carpenter and Joseph Welker - James Carpenter Design Associates
HELIOTROPIC SHADING: DAYLIGHTING A RARE BOOKS READING ROOM WITH ELECTROCHROMIC GLASS AND PARAMETRIC ANALYSIS | 2017
Dan Weissman - Lam Partners
ALFA - ADAPTIVE LIGHTING FOR ALERTNESS | 2017
Jon Sargent - Solemma, LLC
SPECTRAL ODYSSEYS: CASE STUDIES IN THE APPLICATION OF LIGHTING RESEARCH | 2017
Marty Brennan and Ed Clark - ZGF Architects
MEASURING AND ANALYZING CIRCADIAN LIGHT | 2017
Mehlika Inanici - University of Washington
THE EYE IS NOT JUST FOR SEEING: HOW LIGHT AFFECTS ALERTNESS, SLEEP AND CIRCADIAN RHYTHMS | 2017
Steven W. Lockley - Harvard Medical School
PROJECT DAY CAPTURE (STUDENT COMPETITION WINNER) | 2017
John Scheeler and Jeff Drexel - Cornell University
DIRECT SUN AND OCCUPANT COMFORT | 2017
Madeline Gradillas and Henry Richardson - Atelier Ten
COLLABORATIVE VISUALIZATIONS FOR DESIGN DECISIONS | 2017
Brianna Coston, Kera Lagios and Michael Martinez - Integral Light Studio
ANNUAL DAYLIGHT IMPACTS OF MANUAL AND AUTOMATED BLIND CONTROL ALGORITHMS | 2017
Amir Nezamdoost and Kevin Van Den Wymelenberg - University of Oregon ESBL
FROM RADIANCE TO REAL-TIME AND VIRTUAL REALITY | 2017
Nathaniel Jones - Arup
CIRCADIAN DAYLIGHT IN PRACTICE: DETERMINING A SIMULATION METHOD FOR THE DESIGN PROCESS | 2016
Jessica Zofchak and Henry Richardson - Atelier Ten
DEVELOPING BUILDING PERFORMANCE TOOLS: FROM VIEWS TO ZONING | 2016
Luc Wilson - KPF
NEW FUTURE PRACTICES | 2016
Ryan Welch - KieranTimberlake
NEW DIVA-GRASSHOPPER FEATURES | 2016
Jon Sargent and Timur Dogan - Solemma
DRIVING FORM: DAYLIGHT AS SCULPTOR | 2016
Sean Quinn - HOK
ACHIEVING DAYLIGHT QUALITY IN LARGE SCALE PROJECTS: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES | 2016
Amaia Puras-Ustarroz - HLB
DEFINING THE ZONE OF BIOLOGICAL DARKNESS: A NOVEL AREA-BASED CIRCADIAN DAYLIGHT METRIC | 2016
Kyle Konis - USC
DIVA ANALYSIS AS A DESIGN TOOL – PROJECT EXAMPLES / CASE STUDIES | 2016
Neil Katz - SOM
SPEEDING UP DAYLIGHTING DESIGN AND GLARE PREDICTION WORKFLOWS WITH ACCELERAD | 2016
Nathaniel Jones - MIT
DAYLIGHTING EFFECT OF SEPARATING DIRECT AND DIFFUSE INSOLATION WITH A FACADE-INTEGRATED, TRANSPARENT SOLAR COLLECTOR | 2016 (Student Competition Winner)
Mohamed Aly and Kenton Phillips - RPI Center for Architecture Science and Ecology
NEW FEATURES IN DIVA 4.0 | 2015
Christoph Reinhart, J. Alstan Jakubiec, Jon Sargent, Timur Dogan - Solemma
25 YEARS OF ATELIER TEN: (IN)VISIBLE ARCHITECTURE | 2015
Reinier Zeldenrust - Atelier Ten
MATERIAL CHARACTERIZATION | 2015
Christoph Reinhart and Madeline Gradillas - MIT; J. Alstan Jakubiec - Singapore University of Technology and Design; Timur Dogan - Cornell
REST LUMINAIRE DESIGN | 2015 (Student Competition Winner)
Teri Lim and Geraldine Quek - Singapore University of Technology and Design
USING DIVA FOR PLANNING APPLICATIONS | 2015
Arthur Mamou-mani - Simply Rhino; Tom Bentley - Anstey Horne
OPTIMIZING A FACADE FOR AN ARID CLIMATE | 2015
Anne Iversen - Henning Larsen
USING COMPREHENSIVE DIVA ANALYSIS AS THE CATALYST FOR THE DESIGN OF A SMALL ARCHITECTURE OFFICE IN BOSTON | 2015
Madeline Gradillas - MIT
DAYLIGHTING DESIGN AND RESEARCH ACTIVITIES SUPPORTED BY RADIANCE SIMULATIONS | 2015
David Geisler-Moroder - Bartenbach Lichtlabor
DEVELOPMENT OF THE SHADING STRATEGY FOR THE KAFD METRO STATION | 2015
Carmelo Galante and Tommaso Pieraccini - NEWTECNIC
KLIMAENGINEERING 2.0 - FROM INFORMED DESIGN TOWARDS LANGUAGE! | 2015
Christian Frenzel - Transsolar
DESIGN OF AN INTERDISCIPLINARY LABORATORY IN TURKEY | 2015
Timur Dogan - Cornell
THREE EASY PIECES | 2015
Francesco Anselmo - ARUP
ENHANCING DIVA AS A TOOL TO STUDY LIGHTING CONTROL | 2014
Tuan Tran - University of Hawaii at Manoa
INTERACTING WITH DATA | 2014
Erick Katzenstein - MODELAB
NEW FEATURES IN DIVA FOR RHINO | 2014
J. Alstan Jakubiec - Solemma
LEEDV4 PANEL INTRODUCTION: LM83 DAYLIGHTING METRICS | 2014
J. Alstan Jakubiec - Solemma
PREDICTING DYNAMIC DAYLIGHTING PERFORMANCE FROM A LIMITED NUMBER OF HDR PHOTOGRAPHS | 2014
Mehlika Inanici - University of Washington
HOW FIRST-TIME MODELERS GRAPHICALLY COMMUNICATE DIVA RESULTS | 2014
Seth Holmes - University of Hartford
DIV-A10: EVOLVING, COMMUNICATING AND VALIDATING DAYLIGHT RESULTS FOR OVER TWO DECADES | 2014
Emily Hagan, Henry Richardson, Michael Esposito - Atelier Ten
INTERRELATION OF GEOMETRY, DAYLIGHTING AND STRUCTURE IN PERFORATED SCREEN WALLS | 2014 (Student Competition Winner)
Niloufar Emami - University of Michigan
PARAMETRIC MODELING + SIMULATION: WHAT CAN BE IGNORED WHEN | 2014
Scott Crawford and Apoorv Goyal - LMN
DESIGN VALIDATION FOR VIEWS, DAYLIGHT & COMFORT | 2014
Marty Brennan and Ed Clark - ZGF
A NEW LOOK AT RESILIENCY: MODELING TEMPERATURE DRIFT WITH VIPER | 2013
Jessica Zofchak and Michael Esposito - Atelier Ten
SAVE SHAHEEN! AN ACADEMIC DAYLIGHT RETROFIT PROJECT | 2013
Holly Samuelson - Harvard GSD
THE LORAX PROJECT | 2013
Christoph Reinhart - MIT
ITERATION AND LEGIBILITY WITH DIVA | 2013
Erick Katzenstein - LMN
GLARE STUDIES: GUND HALL AND DOT | 2013
J. Alstan Jakubiec - MIT
NEW FEATURES IN DIVA FOR RHINO | 2013
J. Alstan Jakubiec - Solemma
APPLYING TOOLS FOR CROSS-PRACTICE COLLABORATION | 2013
Vamshi Gooje - Thornton Tomasetti
CLOSING THE LOOP: DESIGN/ANALYSIS > VALIDATION > FABRICATION | 2013
Zach Downey - CUNY
BUILDING SIMULATION (NOT) IN THE STUDIO | 2013
Max Dölling - T.U. Berlin
DAYLIGHT SIMULATION: PURPOSE AND PATH | 2013
Shrikar Bhave - Transsolar
RE-ENVISIONING THE DAYLIGHT ANALYSIS WORKFLOW | 2012
John An - YR&G; Jessica Zofchak - Atelier Ten
RETROFITTING LIBRARIES FOR DAYLIT WORK ENVIRONMENTS AND TRANSITION SPACES | 2012
Carlos Cerezo, Natalia Escobar and Amaia Puras - Harvard GSD
HYBRID DAYLIGHT MODELS IN ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN EDUCATION | 2012
Max Dölling - T.U. Berlin
MODELING DYNAMIC SHADING DEVICES WITH THE DIVA ADVANCED SHADING MODULE | 2012
J. Alstan Jakubiec and Jeff Niemasz - Solemma
DESIGN AND ANALYSIS OF A THREE-DIMENSIONAL SHADING SCREEN IN SINGAPORE | 2012
J. Alstan Jakubiec, Azadeh Omidfar, and Thomas Schröpfer - Harvard GSD
DIVA IN PRACTICE - CHOLERA TREATMENT CENTER, PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI | 2012
Kera Lagios - Lam Partners
DIVA AND DESIGN | 2012
Jeff Niemasz and Jon Sargent - Solemma
THE NEW ELECTRIC LIGHTING MODULE | 2012
Christoph Reinhart - Solemma
THE SCIENCE BEHIND DIVA | 2012
Christoph Reinhart - Solemma
DAYSIM TO ENERGYPLUS | 2012
Jon Sargent - Solemma
UNDER ONE ROOF - EXAMPLES FROM RESEARCH AND PRACTICE | 2012
Jonatan Schumacher and Ben Silverman - Thornton Tomasetti