Jeffrey Geisinger

Critic - Architecture
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RISD faculty member Jeffrey Geisinger
BARC, Rice University
SMArchS, Massachusetts Institute Technology

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
Level Undergraduate
Unit Architecture
Subject Architecture
Period Fall 2023
Credits 3
Format Lecture
Mode In-Person
Start date
End date

ARCH 2256-01

ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN

Level Undergraduate
Unit Architecture
Subject Architecture
Period Fall 2023
Credits 3
Format Lecture
Mode In-Person
Start and End 2023-09-06 to 2023-12-13
Times: T | 9:40 AM - 12:40 PM Instructor(s): Jeffrey Geisinger Location(s): Bayard Ewing Building, Room 106 Enrolled / Capacity: 30 Status: 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
Level Undergraduate
Unit Architecture
Subject Architecture
Period Fall 2023
Credits 3
Format Lecture
Mode In-Person
Start date
End date

ARCH 256G-01

ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN

Level Undergraduate
Unit Architecture
Subject Architecture
Period Fall 2023
Credits 3
Format Lecture
Mode In-Person
Start and End 2023-09-06 to 2023-12-13
Times: T | 9:40 AM - 12:40 PM Instructor(s): Jeffrey Geisinger Location(s): Bayard Ewing Building, Room 106 Enrolled / Capacity: 15 Status: 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)

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RISD faculty member Jeffrey Geisinger
BARC, Rice University
SMArchS, Massachusetts Institute Technology