Jeff Geisinger is director of sustainable design at Utile, where he leads the firm’s building performance and resilience initiatives. He works with project teams to design energy-efficient, sustainable buildings and spaces by integrating energy modeling into the design process. His teaching approach emphasizes the importance of climate-responsive methods and analysis at the earliest stages of design. Geisinger has worked at Ennead Architects in New York and Guillermo Vázquez Consuegra in Seville, Spain. He earned degrees from MIT and Rice University and is a Certified Passive House consultant and a registered architect in Massachusetts.
Courses
Fall 2023 Courses
ARCH 2256-01 - ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN
LevelUndergraduate
UnitArchitecture
Subject Architecture
Period Fall 2023
Credits 3
FormatLecture
Mode In-Person
Start date
End date
ARCH 2256-01
ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN
LevelUndergraduate
UnitArchitecture
Subject Architecture
PeriodFall 2023
Credits3
FormatLecture
ModeIn-Person
Start and End2023-09-06 to 2023-12-13
Times: T | 9:40 AM - 12:40 PMInstructor(s): Jeffrey GeisingerLocation(s): Bayard Ewing Building, Room 106Enrolled / Capacity: 30Status: Open
SECTION DESCRIPTION
This course reinforces the fundamentals of environmental systems- thermal, light, ventilation, acoustics-and teaches design strategies to evaluate and optimize building concepts based on these systems. The lab component will include hands-on testing (e.g. data-loggers for thermal and HDR imaging for daylighting) and an emphasis on digital simulations (e.g. Rhino plug-ins for thermal and lighting analysis). The Simulation Game is an in-class activity where students compete to make the most energy-efficient conceptual building massing using an energy modeling program in Rhino/Grasshopper. The course will culminate in a case study project in which students apply design strategies to a specific building design problem.
Majors are pre-registered for this course by the department. Preference is given to Junior Architecture Students.
Major Requirement | BArch: Architecture
ARCH 256G-01 - ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN
LevelUndergraduate
UnitArchitecture
Subject Architecture
Period Fall 2023
Credits 3
FormatLecture
Mode In-Person
Start date
End date
ARCH 256G-01
ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN
LevelUndergraduate
UnitArchitecture
Subject Architecture
PeriodFall 2023
Credits3
FormatLecture
ModeIn-Person
Start and End2023-09-06 to 2023-12-13
Times: T | 9:40 AM - 12:40 PMInstructor(s): Jeffrey GeisingerLocation(s): Bayard Ewing Building, Room 106Enrolled / Capacity: 15Status: Open
SECTION DESCRIPTION
This course reinforces the fundamentals of environmental systems- thermal, light, ventilation, acoustics-and teaches design strategies to evaluate and optimize building concepts based on these systems. The lab component will include hands-on testing (e.g. data-loggers for thermal and HDR imaging for daylighting) and an emphasis on digital simulations (e.g. Rhino plug-ins for thermal and lighting analysis). The Simulation Game is an in-class activity where students compete to make the most energy-efficient conceptual building massing using an energy modeling program in Rhino/Grasshopper. The course will culminate in a case study project in which students apply design strategies to a specific building design problem.
This course is a requirement for first-year MArch (3yr) Architecture Students.
Major Requirement | MArch: Architecture (3yr)
Spring 2024 Courses
ARCH 255G-01 - ENCLOSURE DESIGN
LevelGraduate
UnitArchitecture
Subject Architecture
Period Spring 2024
Credits 3
FormatLecture
Mode In-Person
Start date
End date
ARCH 255G-01
ENCLOSURE DESIGN
LevelGraduate
UnitArchitecture
Subject Architecture
PeriodSpring 2024
Credits3
FormatLecture
ModeIn-Person
Start and End2024-02-15 to 2024-05-24
Times: W | 1:10 PM - 4:10 PMInstructor(s): Jeffrey GeisingerLocation(s): Bayard Ewing Building, Room 106Enrolled / Capacity: 95Status: Open
SECTION DESCRIPTION
Comprehensive design of building enclosures - integrated consideration of structural design, tolerance, detailing, thermal transmission, air transmission, and moisture transmission. Introduce typical and atypical systems of enclosure with emphasis on relative advantages of different systems depending on location, intended performance, and design intent.
Majors are pre-registered for this course by the department. Enrollment is limited to Graduate Architecture Students.
Major Requirement | MArch (2yr) and (3yr): Architecture
