Ass. Prof. Yun Kyu Yi’s “QuVue implementation for decisions related to high-rise residential building layouts” is published in Building and Environment.
This paper tested a newly developed visible sky ratio measure called QuVue in an actual high-rise residential complex to determine its robustness and identify its limitations. QuVue is a new index for measuring visible sky ratios that overcomes the major hurdles of current methods. It calculates the actual three-dimensional projection area of obstacles onto a virtual hemisphere, considering humans’ downward view.
Prof. Yi’s work, titled QuVue, has been trademarked under the U of I Board of Trustees. The tool is for architectural and engineering services, namely consulting services, to evaluate sky view ratios.
Scott Murray has authored a chapter in the new book Modernism and American Mid-20th Century Sacred Architecture, edited by Anat Geva and published this month by Routledge. Murray’s chapter presents a comprehensive history of a remarkable but short-lived and nearly forgotten building in Champaign designed by the noted architect Paul Rudolph.
Pengyuan Shen, William Braham, and Yun Kyu Yi, “Development of a lightweight building simulation tool using simplified zone thermal coupling for fast parametric study.” Applied Energy, Volume 223, 1 August 2018, Pages 188-214.
Associate Professor Scott Murray is the author of a new article, titled “Architects and the Cultural Agency of Television: Frank Lloyd Wright on The Mike Wallace Interview,” published in the current issue of the journal Thresholds, Volume 46.
“Thresholds is the annual peer-reviewed journal produced by the MIT Department of Architecture, held in over 150 university art & architecture libraries around the world. Content features leading scholars and practitioners from the fields of architecture, art, and culture. Thresholds is published by MIT Press.” – http://thresholdsjournal.com/
Hardcover and paperback, 8.5” x 11”, 200 pages, 180 illus.
Exploring the design of innovative building enclosure systems in contemporary architecture and their precedents in earlier twentieth-century modern architecture, this book by Scott Murray examines the tectonics, the history, and the influence of translucency as a defining characteristic in architecture. Each chapter presents a comparative analysis of two primary buildings: a recent project paired with a historical precedent, highlighting how architects in different eras have realized the distinctive effects of translucent glazing in building facades. Research for this book was supported by grants from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the Alan and Leonarda Laing Foundation, and the Campus Research Board at the University of Illinois.
SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE, UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN
