Best Paper Award at SimAUD 2012 conference
© 2012 EPFL
The 2012 edition of the Symposium on Simulation for Architecture and Urban Design (SimAUD) held in Orlando FL on March 26-28, 2012, awarded the Best Paper Award to an article by Siobhan Rockcastle from MIT and Marilyne Andersen from EPFL entitled "Dynamic Annual Metrics for Contrast in Daylit Architecture".
The awarded paper is an outgrowth of a recently completed Master of Science in Architectural Studies (SMArchS) thesis at MIT conducted under Marilyne Andersen’s supervision by Siobhan Rockcastle. It addresses the question of the dynamic aspects of perceptual daylight in a novel way, with a focus on contrast and variability and based on a typological matrix of architectural spaces rendered over time.
The SimAUD committee unanimously selected the paper for this award "in recognition of this paper’s quality, originality and significance in modeling & simulation". Siobhan Rockcastle plans to join the LIPID in early 2013 to pursue this innovative work as a PhD thesis project.