AIA Hong Kong - Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) Campus
Speakers
Carlos Cerezo Davila, Sustainable Design Leader, KPF
CES: 1.0 LU/ HSW for AIA Members
Event Description
Designed by the New York based architectural firm Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates (KPF) as an inspirational “smart green campus”, the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) Campus project combines institutional form, function, and aspiration with sustainability and organic beauty. It memorably heralds the university of the future, setting a new standard for higher education. In this presentation, Carlos Cerezo Davila will share the sustainable goals set forth for the project, and present to audience the studies behind this campus of the 21st century.
Speaker Bios
Carlos Cerezo Davila, Sustainable Design Leader, KPF.
Carlos Cerezo Davila is the Sustainable Design Leader of KPF, guiding the firm in its ongoing efforts to positively impact the environment through its built work. Before joining KPF, Cerezo Davila worked as a Research Scientist with the Sustainable Design Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), focusing on the development of workflows and tools to incorporate building performance simulation in design at all scales. His research work has studied the application of energy simulation and uncertainty analysis at an urban scale in collaboration with municipalities such as Boston, Chicago, Lisbon, and Kuwait. Boston’s proof of concept study for a citywide Urban Building Energy Model (UBEM), a term introduced in one of Cerezo Davila’s published scientific papers, modeled over 80,000 buildings and estimated their energy usage to assist the city in developing urban energy generation strategies. As an instructor in the Building Technology program at MIT, Cerezo Davila taught environmental modeling to architects and urban planners. He is a licensed architect by the University of Sevilla, and has practiced in Spain, Japan, and the United States.
Moderator: Winston Yeo, AIA, Founding director, OFGA, 2021 President, AIA Hong Kong
Winston Yeo, AIA, is a founding partner and director at OFGA. Establish in 2013 for the refinement of ideas and the craft of execution, OFGA has since built a strong portfolio in branding and interior architecture projects that challenge the status quo. Before founding OFGA, Winston was a design lead at Hillier, New York, where he made key contributions on a number of award-winning projects, most notably the Irving Convention Center in Texas.
He has served the AIA Hong Kong community over several different capacities, as program chair in 2019, Vice President in 2020, and currently as President 2021.
