Christoph Reinhart
Initial UMI paper (2013) | Download UMI | MIT course web site (Spring 2017)
Welcome to UMIverse, a portal for urban-level simulation projects based on our environmental urban analysis platform called the Urban Modeling Interface (UMI). We conducted these projects either in classes on urban modeling at MIT and Harvard or as part of larger research activities with external partners worldwide.
| year | Project name | Authors | Location | Focus area | Links | |
| 2020 | Toward a more sustainable Munich | Zach Berzolla, Niall Buckley, Claire Holley and Tristan Searight | Munich | efficient, vibrant and resilient | Video, Presentation | |
| 2020 | South Chicago Masterplan | Yu Qian Ang, Jakub Szczesniak, Tessa Weiss and Moulshree Mittal | Chicago | sustainable, diverse and liveable | Video, Presentation | |
| 2020 | Zero Island | Mariana liebman-Pelaez, Hadley Piper, Ramon Weber and Elizabeth Young | San Francisco | low carbon, resilient energy and mobility | Video, Presentation | |
| 2020 | Rooftop Wonderland | Eakapobh Huang Hanapan, James Kallaos, Shide Salimi, Pablo Taddei and Sara Toepfer | San Francisco | resilient, cost effective and healthy | Video, Presentation | |
| 2020 | Chicago 2 | Benjamin Tasistro-Hart, SungHwan Lim and KuanTing Chen | Chicago | efficient, connected and resilient | video ,Presentation | |
| 2020 | Low-Carbon Climate Adaptation Strategies for Paris Center | Ruoyu Lan, Sacha Moreau and Olivier Faber | Paris | efficient, connected and resilient | video ,Presentation | |
| 2017 | Boston Seaport District | Nathan Brown, Mario Giampieri, Ellie Jungmin Han, NJ Namju Lee | Boston | efficiency, resiliency and livability | Presentation, UMI file | |
| 2017 | Boston Zero | Greg Hopkins; Ed Barbour; Jiamin Sun; Danya Littlefield | Boston | energy efficiency, walkability and affordability | Presentation, UMI file | |
| 2017 | Kigali, Rwanda | Andrew Brose, Daniel Garcia, Justin Lim, Daniel Marshall | Kigali, Rwanda | wind ventilation potential and future load preparedness | Presentation | |
| 2017 | Lisbon fit | Anqi Huo, Ching-Che Huang, Xiaoran Wang, Xiaoshi Wang | Lisbon | cardio community, natural ventilation, reducing site EUI | Presentation, UMI file | |
| 2017 | Autonomous Lisbon | Panagiota Gianniou, Samuel Letellier-Duchesne, Shreshth Nagpal | Lisbon | Seasonal thermal storage | Presentation, UMI file | |
| 2016 | Boston Seaport Smartgrid | Jamie Farrell; Samantha Cohen; Stephany Lin | Boston | load balancing across a neighborhood | Context, Presentation | |
| 2016 | South Boston Waterfront | Jamie Bemis; Rachel Belanger; Tianyi Chen; Alex Mercuri | Boston | tradeoff daylight versus energy | Context, Presentation | |
| 2016 | Alfacinha | Khadija Benis; Sera Tolgay; Irmak Turan | Lisbon | building integrated agriculture | Context, Presentation | |
| 2016 | Lisbon | Simone Cenci; Shreejar Tuladhar; Sara Freitas; Alpha Arsano | Lisbon | natural ventilation analysis | Context, Presentation | |
| 2016 | Al Majaz | Norhan Bayomi; Jake Sobstyl; Asresh Guttikonda | Kuwait | outdoor thermal comfort; links urban planning and architecture | Context, Presentation | |
| 2016 | Kuwait Neighborhood Proposal | Apoorv Kaushik; Bradley Tran; Holly Jacobson | Kuwait | energy supply analysis | Context, Presentation | |
| 2014 | Revitalizing Lower Roxbury | Maxime Cunin; Jeff Geisinger; Cody Rose | Boston | affordable housing; links urban planning and architecture | Video,Presentation | |
| 2014 | Al-Qadisiya, Kuwait City: Sustainable Urban Retrofit and Design | Ali Irani; Katie Gertz; Nathaniel Jones; Nelson Soares | Kuwait | outdoor comfort; dashboard matrix | Video, Presentation | |
| 2014 | MIT Campus | Aiko Nakano; Denise Rivas; Manos Saratsis; Julia Sokol | Cambridge, MA | campus study; planning over time | Presentation | |
| 2013 | Resilient San Francisco 2080 | Cressica Brazier; Fei Hong; Juney Lee; Chris Mackey; Karen Noiva | San Francisco | urban heat island; urban canyon study | Presentation | |
| 2013 | Central Square Retrofit | Apporv Goyal;Thomas Sherman; Zachary Shore;Sarabh Shrestha; Arta Yazdanseta | Cambridge, MA | first comprehensive dashboard | Presentation | |
| 2013 | Kendallegos | James Perakis; Josh Westerhold | Cambridge, MA | spider diagram dashboard; urban daylight study | Presentation | |
| 2013 | San Francisco Alternative Zero | Catherine De Wolf; John Sullivan; Mingxi Zou; Trygve Wastvedt; SunMin May Hwang | San Francisco | systemtic analysis towards net zero; natural ventilation with urban heat island | Presentation | |
| 2011 | Revitaliziing Sevilla's Expo '92 Area | Carlos Cerezo; Natalia Escobar; Ji Seok Park; Amaia Puras | Seville | coupled operational and embodied energy; outdoor comfort analysis | Presentation | |
| 2011 | Compact Residential Development Beijing | Debashree Pal; Juho Lee; Memo Cedeno; Yingying Lu | Beijing | walkability; human scale design | Presentation | |
| 2011 | Reimagining the Boston Row House Neighborhood | Masana Amamiya; Naz Beykan; Meg Howard; Larissa Oaks | Boston | walkability; building massing; parking | Presentation | |
| 2011 | Chicago Data Centre | Travis Boost; Elliot Glassman; Jean You | Chicago | district heating linked to an onsite data centre | Presentation | |
| 2011 | Informal | Incremental Port Au Prince: Haiti | Krista Palen; Dan Weissman; Eddy Mankim; Jessica Yurkofsky | Haiti | coupled CFD-energy analysis; incremental urban growth | Presentation | |
| 2011 | Densifying Istambul | Anne Schmidt; Bing Wang; Nari Yoon; Timur Dogan | Istambul | urban guidelines; coupled CFD/E+ simulation; massing study | Presentation | |
| 2011 | The impact of urban form on energy use in Kendall Square | Tarek Rakha; Corey Wowk; Travis Sheehan | Cambridge | building massing | Presentation |
