Mojtaba Parsaee

• PhD
• Professor (Assistant) at Indiana State University

This research has designed a 360-degree imagery-multisensor system aiming to capture and visualize environmental parameters in architecture and urban spaces. Unlike existing tools, this system enables simultaneous recording of both imagery and non-imagery environmental data, including lighting, thermal, air quality, sound, and physical space parame...

Global warming is already significantly impacting communities, their health and infrastructure. Previous studies showed that climate change is making the earth warmer, which consequently affects the heating and cooling loads of buildings and their thermal performance. Therefore, it is beneficial to analyze how buildings respond to climate change in...

This research aims at developing a methodology for integrated visualization of diurnal/nocturnal urban heat and light exposed to pedestrians. Heat and light are major environmental qualities affecting the visual and non-visual experiences of pedestrians in urban spaces. The configuration of urban layouts, including built-up area, density, and surfa...

This exploratory research discusses natural ventilation in a traditional city through employing a computational method. The mechanism of airflow in traditional cities has not yet been sufficiently studied through experimental and computational methods. This paper reports work on simulating natural ventilation in traditional Bushehr City by means of...

This paper describes eight imagery datasets including around 12000 images grouped in 1220 sets. The images were captured inside an architectural model aimed at exploring the impact of shading panels on photobiological lighting parameters. The architectural model represents a generic space at 1:10 scale with a single side fully glazing façade used t...

This paper proposes tridimensional (3D) laser scanning to architects and lighting designers as a lighting enquiry and visualization method for existing built environments. The method constitutes a complement to existing lighting methods by responding to limitations of photometric measurements, computer simulation and HDR imagery in surveying and vi...

This paper presents a computational method for spatial visualization and probability evaluations of window view access in architecture based on human eyes' vision fields and biophilic recommendations. Window view access establishes occupants' visual connections to outdoors. Window view access has not, yet, been discussed in terms of the typical vis...

Northern building envelopes must provide efficient indoor-outdoor connections based on photobiological-psychological needs of occupants for positive relationships with the sub-Arctic nature, particularly daylighting and day/night cycles. Envelope configurations of Northern Canada’s buildings have not yet considered such requirements. Potentials of...

This research focuses on developing adaptive high-performance envelopes to enable biophilic healthy buildings in Arctic climates responding to occupants’ wellbeing needs for relationships with the outdoor nature and to energy efficiency requirements. Building envelopes are the main element connecting indoors to the extreme cold weather and drastic...

This research aims at studying the potentials of single-skin and multi-skin envelopes with different window sizes to promote biophilic, healthy lighting and thermal performance of buildings in extreme sub-Arctic climatic conditions. Single-skin envelopes with low window-to-wall ratios (WWR) are most often recommended for sub-Arctic climates to redu...

The aim of this research is to develop climate-based lighting adaptation scenarios for proper photobiological responses in high-performance biophilic buildings throughout the year. Photobiological responses refer to image forming (IF) and non-image forming (NIF) effects of light after reaching human eyes. IF effects enable vision. NIF effects regul...

This study investigates shading panels' (SPs) impacts on daylighting features in a lab scale model in terms of parameters representing potential human eyes' biological responses identified as image forming (IF) and non-image forming (NIF). IF responses enable vision and NIF responses regulate internal body clocks known as circadian clocks. Human-ce...

This paper develops an integrated design framework of adaptive building façades (ABFs) to respond to photobiological and thermal needs of occupants, biophilic factors, energy requirements and climatic features in Northern Canada, i.e. near and above 50°N. The paper discusses the importance of biophilic and photobiological factors and ABFs to improv...

This research develops climate-responsive adaptation scenarios through which the indoor lighting ambiance could be adjusted to photobiological needs of occupants for different activities. Photobiological needs refer to image-forming (IF) and non-image forming (NIF) requirements of individuals to perform a particular activity. Recent photobiological...

This research explores health and well-being responses of occupants to the daylighting design of northern latitude buildings. Photobiological and biophilic studies have shown the significant impacts of daylighting and natural cycles on occupants’ health and well-being. Northern people have forced to spend most of their time in buildings due to stro...

A smart portable device is proposed to monitor and analyze photobiological parameters of light, i.e. image forming and non-image forming, in the space and control artificial lighting and building façades systems with respect to occupants’ behavior and local photoperiods. The proposed device could operate in a real-time spatial basis to monitor inte...

This study discusses the potential of climate-responsive building envelopes (CRBEs) to address biophilic and human-centric lighting factors inside buildings and satisfy occupants’ needs. Biophilic and human-centric lighting guidelines emphasize on image forming (IF) and non-image-forming (NIF) responses of building occupants to light and natural cy...

This research aims at developing shading panels of building envelopes to fulfill occupants’ health and well-being in terms of image forming (IF) and non-image forming (NIF) responses to light and natural cycles. In the last few years, photobiological studies have brought attention to the health and well-being of occupants in terms of IF and NIF res...

This research aims at developing biophilic adaptive façades as a promising solution to promote occupants’ health and building energy efficiency in the extreme-cold climate of Quebec's northern territories. Adaptive façades point to the (self-) adjustment of façade components (such as shading panels, windows and blinds) to occupants’ needs and envir...

This research aims at developing biophilic adaptive façades as a promising solution to promote occupants’ health and building energy efficiency in the extreme-cold climate of Quebec's northern territories. Adaptive façades point to the (self-) adjustment of façade components (such as shading panels, windows and blinds) to occupants’ needs and envir...

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This paper proposes the biophilic design approach as a plausible hypothesis for the challenging conditions related to living and working in extreme cold climates. Biophilic design has recently been developed to overcome the adverse effects of the built environment and to improve human well-being by redefining the human-nature relationship. Yet, bio...

The biophilic design approach has recently been developed to confront adverse effects of the built environment development and improve human well-being by redefining the human-nature relationship. However, suggested biophilic design recommendations are rarely discussed in extreme climatic conditions such as very cold climates in which harsh nature,...

The biophilic design approach has recently been developed to confront adverse effects of the built environment development and improve human well-being by redefining the human-nature relationship. However, suggested biophilic design recommendations are rarely discussed in extreme climatic conditions such as very cold climates in which harsh nature,...

As the main concern in sustainability is consideration to climatic conditions, climatically compatible design is the closest way of getting the maximum advantage of renewable sources of energy, while at the same time the design minimizes the undesirable effects of the construction in the environment and causes coordination with sustainability. From...

Numerous studies have been carried out related to landscape, landscape architecture and urban landscape and it indicates the significance of this issue among designers and scholars. These studies have been dealt with different aspects of landscape and investigated the reciprocal effects between landscape and human. In fact, landscape is recognized...

Due to the production of hydrogen, using fuel cells for energy conversion and storing encounters safety problems. Combining high-temperature solid oxide fuel cells with photovoltaic solar panels or zinc oxide solar panels can be a good candidate to produce/convert and store the energy more efficiently for using at peak times. The current paper inte...

The Bushehr city (Iran) had been the center of attention in different historical periods by foreign countries and central government due to political and economic strategic position in Persian Gulf. The situation and condition of Bushehr, especially in Qajar era, caused that the city encountered the changes and reformations as a result of both inne...

This research attempts to offer a new approach for architectural design process that the concepts of interaction and multi-relations are being achieved through it. This approach, which is identified as an interactive architecture, suggests a process that a dynamic and mutual relation will create among all factors and parameters of design and the ef...

Space and place are among the fundamental concepts in architecture about which many discussions have been held and the complexity and importance of these concepts were focused on. This research has introduced an approach to better cognition of the architectural concepts based on theory and method of semiology in linguistics. Hence, at first the res...