Maria Isabel Rivera (Ph.D. 2019)
Assistant Professor at the Department of Architecture, Universidad de Concepción, Chile.
Additional Degrees: Bachelor of Architecture, University of Concepcion, Chile. Master of Architecture, University of Washington, USA.
Advisor: Alison Kwok, Ph.D.
Research Interests: Isabel's research focused on indoor environmental quality in school buildings. She investigated thermal comfort and indoor air quality conditions in naturally ventilated primary schools in Southern Chile. Her study helped better understand the perceptions of children and teachers to the physical classroom conditions and to characterize how indoor environmental quality is related to socioeconomic status, home conditions, and health.
Journal Publications
Schewiker, M., André, M., Al-Atrash, A., et al (2020). Evaluating assumptions of scales for subjective assessment of thermal environments – do laypersons perceive them the way, we researchers believe?. Energy and Buildings. Published: 15/03/2020, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enbuild.2020.109761
Mhuireach, G., G.Z., Brown, Kline, J., Manandhar, D., Moriyama, M., Northcutt, D., Rivera, M.I., and Van Den Wymelenberg, K., (2020). Lessons learned from implementing night ventilation of mass in a next-generation smart building. Energy and Buildings. Published: 15/01/2020. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enbuild.2019.109547
Schewiker, M., Abdul-Zahra, A., André, M. et al (2019). The Scales Project, a cross-national dataset on the interpretation of thermal perception scales. Nature, Scientific Data, 6, 289 (2019). Published: 26/11/2019. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-019-0272-6
Proceedings Publications
Delpino, M., Rivera, M.I., & Alarcon, M. (2019). Academic Urban Labs: Architectural Design Studios to Address Local Challenges. Proceedings 2019 Reynolds Symposium Education by Design, Portland, Oregon, EE.UU., October 18 and 19, 2019.
Rivera, M.I., & Kwok, A. (2019). “Thermal Comfort and Air Quality in Chilean Schools, Perceptions of Student and Teachers,” Proceedings Future of Praxis: Applied Research as a Bridge Between Theory and Practice (ARCC Spring), Toronto, Canada, May 29 to June 1, 2019. https://www.arcc-journal.org/index.php/repository/article/view/63
Kwok, A., Tjahjana, N., Rivera, M.I. (2017). Campus Audit Squads for Energy (CASE): understanding behavioural patterns and energy use of plug loads. Proceedings Passive Low Energy Architecture (PLEA) 2017, Designing to Thrive, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, July 2 to 5, Vol I, 789-796.
Elzeyadi, I., Abboushi, B., Hadipour, H., Rivera, M. I. (2016). HIGH-PERFORMANCE FAÇADES: Measuring the Impacts of Dynamic Shading Prototypes on Indoor Environmental Quality Using Yearly Simulations and Field Tests. Proceedings PLEA 2016, Buildings, People: Towards Regenerative Environments, Los Angeles, California, USA., July 11 to 13, Vol II, 1004-1013
Agurto, L., Espinosa, P., Rivera, M.I., Merino, L. (2015). Desarrollo de un Conjunto de Indicadores y Criterios de Sostenibilidad Urbana como Herramienta Digital para Asistir el Diseño de Barrios en el Contexto Chileno. IV Workshop Interdisciplinar de Investigación e Indicadores de Sustentabilidad. Universidad de Concepción, Concepción, Chile. March 30, 31 and April 1, 2015.
Contact email: mariaisrivera@udec.cl