Education
Dipl.-Ing. in Architecture at the Technical University Berlin, 1990

Research Interests
Relationship of Free-flow open space, Air flow and Energy.
Integrated design and building energy performance evaluation.
The intertwining of culture, climate and nature in the work of Alvar Aalto.
Materiality and construction, energy efficiency, sustainability in a critical cultural context. Energy efficiency in existing, retrofit and new buildings.

Current Projects

Director of the Center for Building Energy Research (CBER)

Solar Decathlon Performance Tracking of the Interlock House at Iowa DNR's Honey Creek Resort State Park

USGBC R2P2 (United States Green Building Council Research to Practice Project) in collaboration with multiple faculty, the ISU F,P&M and ISU Council on Sustainability.

Exploring Alternatives to the “Typical Meteorological Year” for Incorporating Climate Change into Building Design in collaboration with Eugene Takle, Atmospheric Science.

Berlin 2011 Summer Academy Adaptive Interfaces

Chair of Technology Substantive Area Committee

Contact Information
Phone: (515) 294-7142
Email: upasse@iastate.edu
WWW: http://www.iprt.iastate.edu/cber/index.html
Office: 491 Design

Mailing Address
Architecture Department
146 College of Design
Ames, IA, 50011

• Short CV
• Full CV

• Improving Energy Efficiency in Schenker Lgoistics' Warehouses in Iowa City, Iowa, 11/25/2009
• Solar Decathlon 2009, 01/14/2008
• Oxford 2008 Conference on Architectural Education, 07/23/2008
• SIMULATION OF NATURAL VENTILATION FLOWS POSSIBILITIES FOR THE RESTORATION OF THE VIIPURI LIBRARY VENTILATION SYSTEM, 09/19/2008
• Casa a Marxen, 08/29/2006
• Sustainable Building Typologies, 01/06/2007
• The Fluid-Dynamics of Air-Flow in Free Flow Open Space: An Architectural Approach to Energy-Efficient Buildings., 12/21/2006
• 1000 European Houses, 01/19/2007
• Architecture & Phenomenology, 05/12/2007
• Defining Space, 10/13/2007
• Sustainable Building typologies: freee flow opne space as a climate typology, 06/12/2007
• Emerging Research, 05/23/2007
• Cost Benefit Analysis for Energy Efficiency in a Small Scale Retrofit Building, 06/29/2009
• Designing Sensual Space, 06/04/2009
• Atmospheres of space: the development of Alvar Aalto's free-flow section as a climate device, 01/01/2009
• Interdisciplinary research into the fluid dynamics of natural ventilation and spatial composition, 09/14/2009
• Space, Time, Energy: Learning From Interlocking A House With The Sun, 07/13/2010
• Energy Efficiency and Preservation of Small-Scale Commercial Building Heritage, 06/24/2010
• Innovation in the Academy: Technology and Form, 06/10/2010
• A net-zero energy home: Using energy modeling for design optimization, 08/11/2010
• Learning from the Solar Decathlon: Making a place for multidisciplinary applied research in architectural education, 06/24/2010
• Using Integrated Student Teams to Advance Education, 03/20/2011
• Traveling Michel Serres’ Passage du NordOuest: what happens, once the ice breaks? A reflection on architectural research conducted between the humanities and engineering. , 04/23/2011
• Predicting Natural Ventilation Flows in Whole Buildings Part 2: The Esherick House, 08/20/2011
• Predicting Natural Ventilation Flows in Whole Buildings Part 1: The Viipuri Library, 08/20/2011
• Constructing Energy Efficiency: Rethinking and Redesigning the Architectural Detail, 03/27/2011
• Rules of thumb for passive solar design: performance analysis of the 2009 U.S. Department of Energy's Solar Decathlon Houses, 08/20/2011
• Passe, Kaelber Architekten: Haus Marxen's interior, 01/01/2009
• The Interlock House, 10/01/2009
• Adaptive Interface, 06/30/2011
• Future Waterfronts , 06/30/2010
• College of Design Faculty Award for Extraordinary performance, 04/15/2009
• Iowa State Live Green! Excellence in Sustainability Award, 02/20/2010
• Iowa State University Alumni Association IMPACT Award 2010, 10/01/2010
• Energy Systems design and performance evaluation for the ISU Solar Decathlon, 07/15/2010
• Sustainable Residential Design for Kathmandu Nepal, 05/13/2011
• College of Design Investment Grant, 06/01/2011
• Iowa EPSCoR: Harnessing Energy Flows in the Biosphere to Build Sustainable Energy Systems, 09/02/2011