H. (Halina) Veloso e Zárate

H. (Halina) Veloso e Zárate

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Halina is a Ph.D. researcher at Architecture and the Built Environment, Delft University of Technology, on Data-Supported Design for Transport Nodes and Sustainable Urbanization. Her research is under one of the twelve PhD Projects granted by the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment of TU Delft in 2021. Halina graduated in Architecture and Urbanism (2014), at the Pontifical Catholic University of Goias in Brazil. She obtained her Masters degree in Architecture in UCLA, where she worked as Graduate Student Researcher for the Now Institute, a partnership between UCLA and Morphosis Architects (Aug 2015- Jun 2016). She worked with Skidmore, Owings and Merrill LLP, in Los Angeles, (Jun 2016 - Nov 2017) and MVRDV (Feb 2018 - Jun 2021), as an Architect and Urban Designer, and as a Project Leader.

Her Ph.D. (2021-2025) focuses on integrated design methods, being entitled "Integrating Carbon Data across Design Scales". It explores how low-carbon design methods can help assess the integration of data, software, and skills across architecture, urban design, and data sciences to support sustainable decision-making in early-stage design. Through empirical investigations at architectural and urban scales, the research identifies significant external, technological, and organizational challenges in integrating carbon data into design workflows. These challenges include regulatory frameworks, database availability, and access, as well as the robustness versus narrowness of data. Additionally, the research explores the importance of integrating urban data from Geospatial Information Systems (GIS), with architecture design data from Building Information Modeling (BIM), in supporting low-carbon design methods. The outcomes include a nine-step approach for carbon data integration in early-stage design, that could be transferable across design scales; and the development of several digital tools to facilitate the visualization and management of carbon data in design processes.

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  • 2018

    2018: Smart Cities Award Competition, Technology Division, American Planning Association.

    The American Planning Association (APA), Technology Division, has selected SOM’s RegenCities Initiative for an Honor Award in its 2018 Smart Cities Awards. The awards program recognizes projects that support the development of smart cities.

    RegenCities is a research initiative that seeks to define the regenerative city—a concept of urban development built on a restorative relationship with the environment.? The initiative centers on an analysis of public data on the built, natural, infrastructural, socioeconomic, and cultural systems of cities.

    Award recipients were honored at the APA’s National Planning Conference in New Orleans on Monday, April 23rd.

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  • 2015

    21,000 USD UCLA Scholarship + Graduate Student Researcher Workstudy

    21,000 USD

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  • 2015

    30,000 USD Lemann Fellowship

    30,000 USD
    2015-2016: UCLA Latin American Institute Award, Center for Brazilian Studies - Scholarship, by Fundacao Lemann

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