Yasha J Grobman

Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Architecture and Town Planning, Faculty Member

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Professor Yasha Jacob Grobman

Yasha Jacob Grobman is a professor at the Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning at the Technion and the founding member of the Technion Computational Design research group (T_CODE), as well as an award-winning practicing architect.

Prof. Grobman's research focuses on architectural design computation, developing cutting-edge digital tools and methods for design and fabrication. He also advocates for a broader understanding of architectural performance, encompassing not only environmental and structural aspects but also perceptual and behavioral aspects of architectural space.

Prof. Grobman is a co-author of several books, including the 2011 book "Performalism - Between Form, Function, and Performance in Contemporary Architecture," and the author or editor of over 90 other book chapters and refereed publications. He is also a sought-after speaker at architectural schools and frequently participates in architectural exhibitions worldwide. Additionally, he has received numerous awards and research grants, including first place in the 2017 AEC Excellence Awards in the sustainability category for the design of the Porter School for Environmental Studies building, the Yuli Ofer 2009 First Prize for Advancement of Architecture, an Israeli Science Foundation personal research grant, and the EU Horizon 2020 FET open Grant.

In addition to his research, Prof. Grobman is an active practicing architect at Grobman Architects. Most of his design projects serve as test beds for his research ideas, design and fabrication methods, and promote state-of-the-art technology in architectural practice. Many of these projects have arisen from award-winning design competitions, including the Porter School of Environmental Studies building at Tel Aviv University, which won an international design competition for sustainability. The building holds the distinction of being Israel's first LEED Platinum-certified building, in addition to being the recipient of the Israeli government's "Diamond Level" Green Building Standard (5281).

Grobman served as the Dean of the faculty of Architecture and town Planning at the Technion from 2019-2022. Prior to his appointment as dean Prof. Grobman held numerous administrative positions at the Technion, including associate dean for student affairs for his faculty and chair of the Center for Architectural Research and Development.

Prof. Grobman also actively participates in various professional activities, serving as an associate editor of the Architectural Science Review journal, a member of the Israeli National Building Research Institute, and an invited jury member in national and international design competitions and awards.

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Towards sustainability evaluation of urban landscapes using big data: a case study of Israel’s architecture, engineering and construction industry

Landscape Research

Nanocellulose–Mycelium Hybrid Materials: Biofabrication of Nanocellulose–Mycelium Hybrid Materials (Adv. Sustainable Syst. 2/2021)

Advanced Sustainable Systems

Thermal performance of sculptured tiles for building envelopes

Building and Environment, 2021

Since effective thermal insulation of buildings could significantly decrease energy consumption w... more Since effective thermal insulation of buildings could significantly decrease energy consumption worldwide, this study examined the potential of concrete tiles with complex geometries at improving thermal performance in building envelopes. The study focused on air flow characteristics that occur near the external surface of the tile, and their influence on the rate of heat transfer within the material. Six groups of sculptured tiles were developed, using a systematic approach (i.e., repetition of basic geometries), biomimicry, and inspiration from natural envelopes. Air flow behavior and heat transfer rates were examined at three different wind speeds, through both experiments and computational fluid dynamics simulations using a configuration of flow impingement that can be regarded as the worst case scenario. After successfully validating the data, additional numerical simulations were conducted for all developed tiles using the Star-CCM + commercial software. The results showed an ...

Foster+Partners Perform: Performance as Producer of Architectural Form

Soft[ware] Boundaries: Complex Geometry in Architectural Design

Contemporary architects should consider themselves lucky to be able to create in this era. Until ... more Contemporary architects should consider themselves lucky to be able to create in this era. Until recently, both drawing and building construction were highly difficult in terms of geometry. As "architects draw what they can build and build what they can draw," 1 the ability to design and build complex geometry 2 based buildings was a luxury limited to a small number of architects and projects in which time and money were of less concern. It is only in the last decade that assimilation and implementation of the use of new software and hardware computer tools and methods have made possible a proliferation of complex formal expression in modern architectural design. What began as technology-oriented evolution of design and building methods has brought architects to the position where they can draw and build almost without formal limits. Computer power has been used to design and construct complex form for numerous buildings built during the last two decades. Early examples of such buildings are the Bercy project by Renzo Piano Building Workshop (1993), the Fish project in Barcelona (1993) and the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao (1997) by Gehry Partners, and the utility building for the Water Pavilion in the Netherlands by NOX (1997). The "new" formalism introduced by these buildings has been contentious right from the start. The configuration of the polemic has focused on the building's exterior, mainly through formalist perspectives of perception and performance. 3 The interior spaces, and more fundamentally, the new experiments in complex geometry in the interior (such as oblique or folded spaces) have been given much less attention in contemporary discourse. This might be explained by architects' emphasis on physical description as opposed to the situation oriented description (of events and effects) that is more appropriate to interior spaces 4

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