Dr Chengzhi Peng (he/him)
BArch, DipLA, MSc, PhD, SFHEA
School of Architecture and Landscape
Senior Lecturer
Director of Postgraduate Research
+44 114 222 0318
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School of Architecture and Landscape
- Profile
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My research sits at the intersection of two key areas: (1) Design Studies, Architectural Computing and Digital Architecture (DADA), and (2) Architectural-Urban Science and Climate (AUSC). I have a sustained track record in research grant capturing from a variety of funding sources in the UK and abroad. I have produced over 80 publications as research outputs, 26 published in peer-reviewed international journals, 50 peer-reviewed internal conferences, more are under review and in preparation. I am currently leading a team of one postdoctoral research associate and six PhD students working in the field of Architectural and Urban Science with projects on city-scale housing stock energy modelling, indoor air quality and energy modelling of institutional building stocks, vegetation and urban air quality modelling, urban community solar micro-grid optimisation.
My teaching portfolio covers subject areas encompassing Design Studies, Digital Architecture and Environmental Simulation. Foremost among my priorities has been i) the continued engagement with dissertation/thesis modules at the UG, MArch, PGT levels; ii) directing the MSc programme on Digital Architecture and Design (DAAD)in line with institutional priorities on employability and entrepreneurship; and iii) integrating advanced environmental simulation into sustainable design for climate change adaptation at the MSc level. Being a Senior Fellow of Higher Education Academy (SFHEA), I have consistently put research-led teaching into practice and engaged with institutional strategic priorities in higher education.
- Qualifications
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- BArch, DipLA, MSc, PhD
- Research interests
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Building stock energy and environmental quality modelling, impacts of climate change on building energy and environmental performance, challenges of ageing societies on the built environment, outdoor-indoor air quality modelling, heat-health warning and planning.
- Publications
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Books
- Design Through Digital Interaction. Bristol: Intellect.
Journal articles
- Modelling the effects of vegetation and urban form on air quality in real urban environments: A systematic review of measurements, methods, and predictions. Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, 128693-128693.
- Developing indoor heat-health warning systems for vulnerable populations. Field Actions Science Report, 2025(27), 100-105.
- Modelling urban dwellers’ indoor heat stress to enhance heat-health warning and planning. Building and Environment, 243.
- Evaluation of housing stock indoor air quality models : a review of data requirements and model performance. Journal of Building Engineering.
- Collating a city's collective memory in co-production of an online urban design learning space. Interaction Design and Architecture(s)(49), 84-96.
- An archetype-in-neighbourhood framework for modelling cooling energy demand of a city's housing stock. Energy and Buildings, 196, 30-45. View this article in WRRO
- Integration of agent-based modelling of social-spatial processes in architectural parametric design. Architectural Science Review. View this article in WRRO
- Influences of visual preferences expressed by participants on early stage of learning space design: an interactive parametric modelling study. Architectural Science Review, 61(6), 454-466. View this article in WRRO
- Correlating cooling energy use with urban microclimate data for projecting future peak cooling energy demands: Residential neighbourhoods in Seoul. Sustainable Cities and Society, 35, 645-659. View this article in WRRO
- The Port of Sheffield: Co-creation in Mobile Application Development for Place-Based Interaction with Large-Scale Urban Heritage Sites. Historic Environment, 28(2), 56-68. View this article in WRRO
- An outdoor-indoor coupled simulation framework for Climate Change–conscious Urban Neighborhood Design. Simulation: transactions of the Society for Modeling and Simulation International, 90(8), 874-891. View this article in WRRO
- Microclimate change outdoor and indoor coupled simulation for passive building adaptation design. Procedia Computer Science, 32, 691-698. View this article in WRRO
- Climate change simulation for intelligent green building adaptation design. 2014 International Conference on Intelligent Green Building and Smart Grid (IGBSG). View this article in WRRO
- Elements of a Visual Language for Social Engagement with Climate Change Conscious Urban Neighbourhood Design. The International Journal of Environmental Sustainability, 9(1), 51-66.
- Learning from a new learning landscape: Visualisation of location sensing data in the Augustine House Experiment. British Journal of Educational Technology, 44(5), 795-809. View this article in WRRO
- Mapping Interstitial Urban Spaces through Performing the City. Leonardo: Art Science and Technology, 46(5), 491-492.
- Environmental profiling as an approach for quantifying the environmental sustainability of residential buildings in Nigeria. ICSDEC 2012: Developing the Frontier of Sustainable Design, Engineering, and Construction - Proceedings of the 2012 International Conference on Sustainable Design and Construction, 431-440.
- Bridging Outdoor and Indoor Environmental Simulation for Assessing and Aiding Sustainable Urban Neighbourhood Design. Archnet-IJAR: International Journal of Architectural Research, 6(3), 72-90.
- Applying ISO-Space to Healthcare Facility Design Evaluation Reports. Seventh Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation (ISA), Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, 13-20.
- UCampus: Can an open source 3D interactive virtual campus modelling platform support institutional learning and innovation?. International Journal of Architectural Computing, 9(3), 303-324.
- Interactive installations on the threshold of built heritage. International Journal of Design Sciences and Technology, 13(1), 29-50.
- In-situ 3D concept design with a virtual city. Design Studies, 27(4), 439-455.
- Tracking decision-making during architectural design. Electronic Journal of Information Technology in Construction, 10.
- e-service as a new paradigm for interactive multidimensional city modeling. Proceedings - 2004 IEEE International Conference on e-Technology, e-Commerce and e-Service, EEE 2004, 169-172.
- Reconstructing urban contexts online for interactive urban designs. Design Studies, 25(2), 175-192.
- Exploring urban history and space online: Design of the virtual Sheffield application. Design Studies, 23(5), 437-453.
- On an alternative framework for building virtual cities: Supporting urban contextual modelling on demand. Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design, 29(1), 87-103.
- Flexible generic frameworks and multidisciplinary synthesis of built form. Design Studies, 20(6), 537-551.
- Exploring communication in collaborative design: co-operative architectural modelling. Design Studies, 15(1), 19-44.
- Survey of collaborative drawing support tools.. Comput. Support. Cooperative Work., 1, 197-228.
- Thermal comfort modelling of older people living in care homes: an evaluation of heat balance, adaptive comfort, and thermographic methods. Building and Environment.
Chapters
- Designing Innovative Learning Spaces in Higher Education at a Turning Point: Institutional Identities, Pervasive Smart Technologies and Organizational Learning In Baskerville R, De Marco M & Spagnoletti P (Ed.), Designing Organizational Systems: An Interdisciplinary Discourse (pp. 217-244). Berlin Heidelberg: Springer.
- Capturing Histories of Design Processes for Collaborative Building Design Development, Computer Aided Architectural Design Futures 2001 (pp. 427-437). Springer Netherlands
- Dynamic Retrieval in an Urban Contextual Databank System using Java-CGI Communications, Computer Aided Architectural Design Futures 2001 (pp. 89-102). Springer Netherlands
Conference proceedings papers
- Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) Supported Urban Design to Reduce Particle Air Pollutant Concentrations. CAADRIA proceedings, 21 March 2023 - 23 March 2023.
- Automatic Room Type Classification using Machine Learning for Two-Dimensional Residential Building Plans. Proceedings of the International Conference on Education and Research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe, Vol. 2 (pp 593-600)
- Parametric modelling and simulation of an indoor temperature responsive rotational shading system design. RE: Anthropocene, Design in the Age of Humans - Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia, CAADRIA 2020, Vol. 1 (pp 579-588)
- Understanding occupant behaviour in Islamic homes to close the gap in building performance simulation: A case study of houses in Riyadh. Proceedings of the 16th IBPSA Conference (pp 2107-2114). Rome, Italy, 2 September 2019 - 4 September 2019.
- Towards an Interactionist Model of Cognizant Architecture A sentient maze built with swarm intelligence. Proceedings of the International Conference on Education and Research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe, Vol. 2 (pp 201-208)
- The influence of Saudi Arabian culture on energy use: Improving the time-use schedules in energy simulation for houses in Riyadh. "Hello, Culture!"- CAAD Futures 2019 (pp 536-552), 26 June 2019 - 28 June 2019. View this article in WRRO
- Koala: Developing a generative house design system with agent-based modelling of social spatial processes. 24th International Conference of the Association for Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia (CAADRIA) 2019, Vol. 1 (pp 235-244), 15 April 2019 - 18 April 2019. View this article in WRRO
- Singing Cans Prototyping an experimental wind instrument through parametric design integrated with field experiments. Proceedings of the International Conference on Education and Research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe, Vol. 1 (pp 703-710)
- Evaluating Overheating Risk and Mitigation Strategies in Low Energy Houses in the UK: Two Sheffield Case Studies. CIBSE/ASHRAE 2017 CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS, 12 April 2017 - 13 April 2017. View this article in WRRO
- Feather-inspired social media data processing for generating developable surfaces: Prototyping an affective architecture Prototyping an affective architecture. ECAADE 2017: SHARING OF COMPUTABLE KNOWLEDGE! (SHOCK!), VOL 1 (pp 181-190)
- The Role of a City's Collective Memory in Supporting Cooperative Urban Design Learning.. CDVE, Vol. 7467 (pp 143-150)
- Townscaping: Development of dynamic virtual city augmented 3D sketch design tools. Computer Aided Architectural Design Futures 2005, Proceedings (pp 105-114)
- Visualising city in change with the medium platform. Proceedings of the International Conference on Education and Research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe (pp 217-224)
- Dynamic retrieval in an urban contextual Databank system using Java-CGI communications - Development of the SUCoD prototype. COMPUTER AIDED ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN FUTURES 2001, PROCEEDINGS (pp 89-102)
- Capturing histories of design processes for collaborative building design development - Field trial of the ADS prototype. COMPUTER AIDED ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN FUTURES 2001, PROCEEDINGS (pp 427-437)
- Fault Detection and Localization using IFC: A Case Study of BIM-based Visualisation of BAS-related Faults. CIBSE Technical Symposium 2019, 25 April 2019 - 26 April 2019. View this article in WRRO
- KOALA: Developing a Generative House Design System with Agent-Based Modelling of Social and Spatial Processes. Proceedings of the 24th Annual Conference of the Association for Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia (CAADRIA 2019), 15 April 2019 - 18 April 2019. View this article in WRRO
- An empirical approach to modelling climate change impact on building energy use. CIBSE Technical Symposium 2018 - 'Stretching the envelope', 12 April 2018 - 13 April 2018. View this article in WRRO
- Microclimate Change Outdoor and Indoor Coupled Simulation for Passive Building Adaptation Design. the Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Sustainable Energy Information Technology. Hasselt, 2 June 2014 - 5 June 2014.
- Climate Change Simulation for Intelligent Green Building Adaptation Design. the Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Green Building and Smart Grid. Taipei, 23 April 2014 - 25 April 2014.
- Environmental Simulation for Designing with Climate Change: Framework, Experiments and Reflection. Architecture and Resilience on a Human Scale International Conference. Sheffield, 10 September 2015 - 12 September 2015.
- Correlating Urban Microclimate Modelling with Energy Use Data Analysis to Inform Site-Specific Climate Change Adaptation Design. Architecture and Resilience on a Human Scale International Conference. Sheffield, 10 September 2015 - 12 September 2015.
- A Web-based Interactive Virtual Environment for Collecting End Users Expressed Visual Preferences of Learning Spaces. Architectural Design Conference. Istanbul, 25 June 2015 - 27 June 2015.
- Designing Sustainable Urban Neighbourhoods with Climate Change. The Faculty of Social Sciences Research Conference 2014. Sheffield, 19 September 2014 - 19 September 2014.
- How Hot Can the University Campus Get in 2050? Environmental Simulation
of Climate Change Scenarios at an Urban Neighborhood Scale. Symposium on Simulation for Architecture and Urban Design (SimAUD 2013), Vol. 45(8) (pp 28-35). San Diego, California, USA, 7 April 2013 - 10 April 2013.
- Enhancing a Virtual City with Collective Memory: A Pilot Study of Jalan Malioboro in Yogyakarta. The 28th Education and Research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe Conference - Future
- Towards a unifying visualization modelling platform for supporting climate change conscious urban neighbourhood design. World Renewable Energy Congress 2011
- Developing a Web-Based 3D Visualisation Modelling Platform to Support Innovative Planning and Design of Learning Spaces: A Case Study of the University of Sheffield Campus. The 10th International Conference on Design and Decision Support Systems in Architecture and Urban P
- Visualising Future Learning Spaces in Context: the Sheffield Experiment. Proceedings of EDULEARN09 (pp 3977-4007). Barcelona, 6 July 2009 - 8 July 2009.
Software / Code
- uCampus: A Web-based 3D interactive visualisation modelling platform to effect participative and collaborative planning and design of future learning spaces. JISC Retrieved from http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/institutionalinnovation/wecamp.aspx
- Design Through Digital Interaction. Bristol: Intellect.
- Research group
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Architectural and Urban Science (AUS)
- Grants
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[1] Renovating Care Homes Fit for the Future: Balancing Indoor Heat Stress Risk Mitigation with Net Zero Ready by 2050, AXA Research Fund, £124,739 awarded. Dr Choo-yoon Yi (PI) has been appointed as the AXA Postdoctoral Fellow for this project to work with Dr Chengzhi Peng (Co-I) and Prof Darren Robinson (Co-I), 01 Feb 2023 – 01 Feb 2025.
[2] Co-producing an environmental performance guidelines framework for care homes fit for the future, Higher Education Innovation Funding (HEIF) Response Mode 2021/22, £16,495 awarded. Dr Choo-yoon Yi (PI) was appointed the PDRA for this project to work with Dr Chengzhi Peng (Co-I), Prof Darren Robinson (Co-I) and Prof Charmaine Childs (Co-I) (Sheffield Hallam University), 01 January 2022 – 31 December 2022.
[3] Thermal Stress Vulnerability and Resilience: Housing Stock Transformation fit for an Ageing Society in Future Climate, ESRC Post-Doctoral Fellowship, £91,953.60 awarded, Dr Choo-yoon Yi (PI) was appointed the PDRA for this project to work with Dr Chengzhi Peng (Co-I), Prof Darren Robinson (Co-I) and Prof Charmaine Childs (Co-I) (Sheffield Hallam University), 01 October 2020 – 31 December 2021.
[4] Future Climate and Change in Liveability of a City’s Housing Environment (PI), funded by the ESRC White Rose Doctoral Training Partnership Collaborative Award 2018, in collaboration with Sheffield Housing Company and the Regional Economic and Social Research Centre, Sheffield Hallam University, £ 80,150 awarded: 01 October 2018 – 30 Sept 2022.
[5] Transcultural Understanding of Designing with Climate Change: A Joint Design Research Studio Approach (PI). In collaboration with Ranald Lawrence (University of Sheffield), Kevin Fellingham (University of cape Town), Edward Ng (Chinese University of Hong Kong), Yang Liu & Liming Kong (Xi’an University of Architecture and Technology), Kun Li (Wuhan University). Worldwide Universities Network (WUN) Research and Development Scheme 2014. £14,932 awarded, 01 Jan 2015 – 30 Jun 2016.
[6] Human-Machine Cooperation in Robotics and Autonomous Systems. In collaboration with Professor Tony Prescott (PI, Sheffield Centre for Robotics). The Great Technologies Capital Call, Engineering and Physical Science Research Council £825,082 awarded to University of Sheffield: 1 Oct 2013 – 31 Jan 2015. As a Co-Investigator, I contributed to the Mixed Reality Interface (MRI) Platform under the Hybrid Reality Facility. The MRI Platform is housed at the School of Architecture for interactive design of smart spaces that include assistive robotic systems.
[7] The Augustine House Experiment (AHE) (PI). In collaboration with Phil Poole at the Canterbury Christ Church University. JISC Institutional Innovation Programme, Benefits Realisation Phase 1b. £15,000 awarded: 04 Jan 2010 – 30 Jun 2010.
[8] A Web-Based Interactive Visualisation Modelling Platform to Effect Participative and Collaborative Planning and Design of Future Learning Spaces (PI). JISC Institutional Innovation Programme, Call II: Large-Scale Institutional Exemplars. £297,344 Awarded (Total Project Cost: £371,679 with Institutional Contribution: £74,335): 01 Oct 2008 – 31 Mar 2010.
- Teaching interests
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- Undergraduate Dissertation Project (RIBA Part 1);
- Postgraduate Dissertation Project (RIBA Part 2, MAAD, MSc Sustainable Architectural Studies);
- Urban Microclimate Simulation;
- Digital Architecture and Design
- Teaching activities
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ARC322, ARC556/566/596, ARC605, ARC6988, ARC6990
- Professional activities and memberships
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- Member of Editorial Board, ArchNet-IJAR, International Journal of Architectural Research, ISSN (Online) #1938 7806, Emerald Publishing, March 2012 – February 2023.
- Invited Guest Editor, Buildings — MDPI AG Open Access Journal, Basel, Switzerland, ISSN 2075-5309.
- Associate Editor, The International Journal of Environmental Sustainability, Common Ground Publishing, ISSN: 2325-1077.
- Appointed moderating panel member for the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), Panel B: Creative and Performing Arts, July - October 2012.
- Member of the AHRC Peer Review College, serving on the Academic and International categories of membership, 1 January 2009 to 31 December 2012.
- International Conference Programme Committee Member: Digital Media and its Applications in Cultural Heritage (DMACH), Education and Research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe (eCAADe), Association for Computer Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia (CADRIA), and CAAD Futures.