Buildings are active components within multiscale climate, environmental, social and technical systems. Given their extended lifespan, changes in this larger context will affect their long term performance: variations in occupant behavior might render a façade design obsolete, while failures in the power grid will require more flexible urban energy systems.  In order to design a sustainable and resilient built environment, the tools we develop for their analysis in architecture and urban planning need to address this complexity at all scales and facilitate the interaction with other disciplines.

The talk will show how some of these questions have been addressed in my work as a researcher, designer, and educator, focusing on the development of building performance simulation (BPS) workflows for life cycle assessment, urban energy analysis and neighborhood modeling.

Dr. Cerezo is a Research Scientist and Instructor in the Sustainable Design Lab (SDL) at MIT. He is a licensed architect by the University of Seville (Spain, 2010) and he holds a Master in Sustainable Design from Harvard University (2013) and a PhD from MIT (2017). His work focuses on the development of workflows and tools to incorporate building performance simulation in design. His current research at SDL is centered on the application of energy simulation and uncertainty analysis and an urban scale, in collaboration with the municipalities of Boston, Chicago, Lisbon, and Kuwait. Carlos has practiced architecture in Spain, the Netherlands and more recently in Japan (2013). He has served as President of the IBPSA Boston Chapter.