Courses: Introduction to Analytics Modeling, Revit, Healthcare Design of the Future, VIP: Surrogate Models for Urban Regeneration, Data-driven Methods in Design and Sustainability, Building Simulation in Design Practice, Public Health Analytics.
Undergrad studies where I obtained a professional degree in architecture.
• Development of authoring scripting solutions using IfcOpenShell library to read and manipulate BIM/IFC models in Revit combined with Rhino.Inside.Revit.
• Running, analyzing and programming of post-processing tools for indoor CFD simulations using OpenFOAM and Grasshopper tools.
• Teaching Assistant of the VIP: Resilient and Healthy Buildings, conducting research on CFD and ABS while providing technical assistance to students.
• Design of house proposal in response to a conflagration in the city, approved by the community.
• Project modeling using Revit and Rhinoceros, documentation, rendering with Twinmotion, and post-production with Adobe Photoshop.
• Project presentation to involved communities consisting of 50+ people.
• Architectural design aligned with engineering and coding requirements.
• Project modeling, documentation, and rendering using Revit and Rhinoceros.
• Development of visualization components for Outdoor+, a Grasshopper plugin for Urban Microclimate simulations.
• Development of custom Grasshopper scripts for Design Space Exploration and Climate Simulations
A Review of a Spatiotemporal Integration Framework for Built Environments: Coupling of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) and Agent-Based Simulation (ABS) (Abstract accepted)
Álvarez, M., & Bernal, M. (2021, November). Design spaces of structurally pre-evaluated funicular shapes. In Proceedings of XXV International Conference of the Iberoamerican Society of Digital Graphics (Vol. 9, pp. 807-878). São Paulo, Brazil: Blucher.
Álvarez, Marcelo; Bernal, Marcelo; Castro, Carlos; "Modeling technique for vault-like structure generation through topological manipulation", p. 238-245 . In: Congreso SIGraDi 2020. São Paulo: Blucher, 2020. ISSN 2318-6968, DOI 10.5151/sigradi2020-33