Education

2014: PhD Design Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology School of Architecture., Atlanta Georgia. USA.
2005: Post Professional Master of Architecture, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA.
2002: Professional Architect degree, Universidad Maritima de Chile., Vina del Mar, Chile.
1999: Bachelor’s in architecture degree, Universidad Maritima de Chile, Vina del Mar, Chile.
 

Biography

Hugo Sheward is a professional architect with three major degrees in architecture. A design computation Ph.D. at Georgia Institute of Technology, he has worked in the development of design tools and software specification for the United States General Services Administration and for the implementation of BIM tools for the purpose of laboratory design. His current work focuses in the development of automation of ventilation systems performance estimation for early stages of laboratory design. His research interest concentrates in the development of Building Information Modeling (BIM) technologies. He is also interested in the development of knowledge-based systems for architectural design and development of design performance evaluation tools for early stages of design and better standards for data interoperability.

Statement of Teaching Interest

To support higher levels of expertise in computational technologies in architecture education and to serve both our graduate and undergraduate students, Particularly in areas such as i design computation, as well as a more advanced application of digital tools such as Rule-Based Building design assessment, Building Information Modeling (BIM)), and the use of parametric and BIM tools to perform building design performance assessment.

Statement of Research Interest

My work in the past few years will serve as a foundation for me to continue developing my research and teaching agenda. In the next five years, I plan to leverage the existing partnerships and continue developing research in BIM and automated design and its application in research laboratories, healthcare facilities, and healthy communities. Two main directions have been identified for future research development: 1. Creating BIM-based best practice healthcare projects benchmarking databases that can tie design parameters with patients and healthcare organizations’ performance outcomes (e.g., Length of Stay, infection rate, patient satisfaction scores, etc.) and provide design recommendations at the early design phase; 2. Develop automated knowledge-based rule-checking design assistance and assessment for the generative design of complex building types (e.g. research laboratory and healthcare facilities) based on design guidelines.

List of Recent Scholarly Work

1. Sheward, H., BIM Based Analysis of Spatial Properties in Building Layouts. American Journal of Civil Engineering and Architecture. Vol. 9, No. 4, 2021, pp 142-155. http://pubs.sciepub.com/ajcea/9/4/3. Main-Author, data processing, writing
2. Sheward, H. (in press), Automation of Normative Calculations for Early Stages of Building Design, 2021, American Journal of Civil Engineering and Architecture. Main-Author, data processing, writing
3. Cai, H., Zilm, F., Sheward, H., & Graham, K. (2020). Responding to COVID-19 – Healthcare Surge Capacity Design for High- Consequence Infectious Disease. Technology| Architecture and Design (TAD)., 4(2), 135- 139. doi: 10.1080/24751448.2020.1804752. Co-Author, data processing, writing