Ulrike Passe

Ulrike Passe

Professor, Architecture

Contact

upasse@iastate.edu

515-294-7142

Campus Office: 491 Design


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

Bio

Research Interests

Director to the ISU Center for Building Energy Research

Principal Investigator of the ISU PIIR (presidential initiative for interdisciplinary research) project: Big Data for Sustainable Cities Decision Making

https://sustainablecities.cber.iastate.edu/

My compass for research is the Passage du Nord-Ouest as taken by Michel Serres to describe the passage between the humanities and science.

Relationship of Free-flow open space, Air flow and Energy on building and urban (microclimate) scale. Sustainable Urban Systems. Integrated design and building energy performance evaluation. Materiality and construction, energy efficiency, sustainability in a critical cultural context. Energy efficiency in existing, retrofit and new buildings. I previously conducted research on the intertwining of culture, climate and nature in the work of Alvar Aalto.

 

Current Projects

2023: NSF SCC-IRG Track 2: A data-driven approach to designing a community-focused indoor heat emergency alert system for vulnerable residents (CommHEAT) ($1,200,000) https://www.commheat.org/

2022: Iowa Economic Development Authority (IEDA) Iowa School Ventilation and Energy Efficiency Retrofit Assessment ($199,878)

2022: NSF DISES-RCN: Developing new strategies for urban-rural systems to overcome interconnected social, environmental, and technological challenges (URSYS), Dynamics in Social and Environmental Systems Research Network Program at the National Science Foundation ($500,000). https://urban-ruralsystems.org/

2020: Thompson, J., (PI), Ganapathysubramanian, B., Zhou, Y., Liebman, M., Schwab, N., Passe, (Senior Personnel), Krejci, C, Gassmann, P., ($2,5mio), NSF INFEWS / T1: Social and biophysical models to integrate local food systems, climate dynamics, built forms, and environmental impacts in the urban FEWS nexus. Four years interdisciplinary research grant awarded with start date Jan 01. 2020. U. Passe will act as project and communications coordinator and lead all building and urban energy modeling aspects of the project. https://iowa-urbanfews.cber.iastate.edu/

2019: Ulrike Passe (PI), Janette Thompson, Kimberly Zarecor, SUS_RURI: Developing a Convergence Sustainable Urban Systems Agenda for Redesigning the Urban-Rural Interface along the Mississippi River Watershed, NSF workshop grant 07/01/2019 - 12/31/2019 over $50,000. https://sus-ruri.pubpub.org/

Education

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

Registered Architect in Germany since 1993

Member of the BDA Berlin 2005-2010

International Associate The American Institute of Architects (AIA)

Board of Directors member to the Passive Low Energy Architecture (PLEA)

Past president of the Society of Building Science Educators (SBSE)

 

Selected Publications

  • Recent Publication List: please see full CV, and my ResearchGate and Google Scholar Profiles
  • NSF INFEWS / T1: Social and biophysical models to integrate local food systems, climate dynamics, built forms, and environmental impacts in the urban FEWS nexus
  • SUS_RURI: Developing a Convergence Sustainable Urban Systems Agenda for Redesigning the Urban-Rural Interface along the Mississippi River Watershed,
  • Invited keynote: Indo-Swiss Building Energy Efficiency Project (BEEP)
  • IDRO Research Grant: Integrating microclimate considerations into urban landscape typologies for energy and water regeneration and sustainability
  • "Dynamic Shading in Buildings: a Review of Testing Methods and Recent Research Findings"
  • ASHRAE 1710: Effect of Dynamic Shading Devices on Daylight and Energy Performance of Perimeter Zones
  • ACSA/AIA Top 10 COTE for Students Competition
  • A Hybrid Simulation Model for Urban Weatherization Programs
  • Methodologies for Studying Human-Microclimate Interactions for Resilient, Smart City Decision-Making
  • Simulating the future microclimate to identify vulnerable building interior conditions
  • Typological Studies For Passive Design Strategies Based On Coupled Measured And Modelled Data
  • Designing Passive Solar Heated Spaces
  • ISU PIIR Big Data for Sustainable Cities Decision Making
  • Architectural Student’s Attitude towards Building Energy Modeling: a Pilot Study to Improve Integrated Design Education
  • Simulating the future microclimate to identify vulnerable building interior conditions
  • Changing climate: The effects on energy demand and human comfort
  • The Potential Energy Efficiency of a Hybrid Designed House: A Post-occupancy Case Study on the Heating and Cooling System
  • President-Elect of the Society for Building Science Educators (SBSE)
  • Incorporation of future building operating conditions into the modeling of building-microclimate interaction: A feasibility approach
  • The Interlock House: Communicating Sustainable Practices through Architecture
  • Big data for sustainable city decision-making.
  • Five years on: building science research with a Solar Decathlon home
  • Energy Efficient Dehumidification by Solar Driven Liquid Desiccant Systems for Residential Application
  • Designing for the future changing climate: testing parametric adaptation strategies,
  • 2014-2015-cote-top-ten-for-students-winners
  • Designing Spaces for Natural Ventilation: an Architect's Guide
  • In pursuit of Iowa's first 'net zero' building
  • Typological Studies for passive design strategies based on modelled and measured data
  • Nordic Light in Italy
  • Vacuum Insulated panels: Next Generation Insulation Material for Appliance, Transportation and Building Systems
  • The future of solar (is) Architecture
  • The Harran Houses as a case study for solar assisted passive ventilation and cooling
  • Miller Faculty Fellowship: Active Collaboration for Sustainable Technological Integration
  • Iowa EPSCoR Broader Impacts Mentoring and Outreach Award
  • Pursuit funding for a NSF CyberSEEs proposal on green buildings: Preliminary Validation Work
  • Towards a Dynamic Daylight Understanding
  • Workshop on sustainable buildings using efficient energy harvesting materials and models based on traditional Harran Adobe House
  • Improving air flow performance models for passive solar and natural ventilation design: Comparing Simulation and Preliminary Measurements
  • NSF EFRI EAGER
  • Building Science Webinar
  • Exploring Alternatives to the" Typical Meteorological Year" for Incorporating Climate Change into Building Design
  • United States Green Building Council Research to Practice Project
  • Integrating Thermo-Fluid Computational Models into Understanding Sustainable Building Design
  • Interlocking a House with the Sun (Interview)
  • Future context for thermal comfort: Impact of a changing climate on energy demand and human thermal comfort.
  • Iowa EPSCoR: Harnessing Energy Flows in the Biosphere to Build Sustainable Energy Systems
  • Predicting Natural Ventilation Flows in Whole Buildings Part 2: The Esherick House
  • Predicting Natural Ventilation Flows in Whole Buildings Part 1: The Viipuri Library
  • College of Design Investment Grant
  • Iowa State University Alumni Association IMPACT Award 2010
  • Iowa State Live Green! Excellence in Sustainability Award
  • Improving Energy Efficiency in Schenker Lgoistics' Warehouses in Iowa City, Iowa
  • The Interlock House
  • College of Design Faculty Award for Extraordinary performance
  • Passe, Kaelber Architekten: Haus Marxen's interior
  • Solar Decathlon 2009
  • 1000 European Houses
  • The Fluid-Dynamics of Air-Flow in Free Flow Open Space: An Architectural Approach to Energy-Efficient Buildings.