Marc Aurel Schnabel
Qualifications & Affiliations
PhD (HK); Dipl Ing (UdK); MEd (Syd)
BAB; HKIBIM; HKIUD; W16, DARA
President ASA – P.Chair AIAB – P. President CAADRIA
Bio
Professor Marc Aurel Schnabel is the Dean of the Wellington Faculty of Architecture and Design Innovation, Professor in Architectural Technology at the Wellington School of Architecture, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand and Visiting Professor at School of Architecture, Sheffield University. Trained as an Architect, he is leading research and education in the field of design and architectural technology.
As President of the Architectural Science Association (ANZAScA) and Past Presidents of CAADRIA, the international Association for Computer Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia, the Industry Advisory Board of Autodesk and founding member of buildingSMART HK, he is affiliated with various professional bodies and scientific committees. He has taught and worked in Germany, Australia, and Hong Kong for over twenty-five years and has become highly recognised for his work in the areas of computational design and learning environments. He is Principal Investigator of the National Science Challenge, Building Better Homes, Towns and Cities, researching in the fields of augmented- and virtual reality, digital heritage, parametric design learning and intelligent cities.
In 2019 Professor Schnabel received three significant architectural honours. He was made a CAADRIA Fellow. He accepted an invitation to join the international PEEK Board as the expert for architecture and design. PEEK is the funding programme for arts-based research supported by the Austrian Science Fund. And also, is partner of the European Union’s REACH to redesign access to cultural heritage for a wider participation in preservation, reuse and management of European culture.
He publishes extensively internationally about novel perspectives in digital architecture and urban design. He curated two digital architectural exhibitions, Disparallel Spaces at Tin Sheds- and 8448cubed at Gaffa-Galleries, and chaired several international conferences, among them the 15th and 24th International CAADRIA Conference ‘New Frontiers’, and ‘Intelligent & Informed’ the 47th and 51stConference of the Architectural Science Association ‘Cutting Edge’ and ‘Back to the Future’, as well as the SmartGeometry Conference Hong Kong. He has established the Digital Architecture Research Alliance, DARA , as well as the online social network Urban Digitalics connecting professionals and researchers in innovative digital spatial design.
EA Contact: Jeannie van Heerden
Research Interests
- Virtual & Augmented Environments: Virtual Design Studio, Digital Heritage, Collaborative digital design, Social network learning
- Parametric & algorithmic modelling & simulation: BIM & CIM, Urban form & thermal comfort, Traffic & urban design (UC-Win Road), Real-time simulation (FUZOR), Intelligent cities
- Digital Manga: Digital architectural narratives and visualisation
Publications
Links
- Research Gate: www.researchgate.net/profile/Marc_Aurel_Schnabel
- Academia: www.victoria.academia.edu/MarcAurelSchnabel
- Urban Digitalics: www.facebook.com/groups/urbandigitalics
- Digital Architecture Research Alliance: https://dara.digital/
Current Research Projects
NSC11: Shaping Places, Future Neighbourhoods
DLHVM: Smart Cities & Big Data
Collaborative Mass Housing (ModRule)
Virtual Environment Design Studio
PhD Supervision
CHOWDHURY, Shuva
Generating urban codes, an algorithmic urban design platform for neighbourhoods in New Zealand
VUW, since 2015
HE, Yi Harry
Design Principles for Outdoor Wind Environment in Urban Areas
VUW, since 2015
ZHANG, Yingyi
Relationship between Urban Space Network and Social Inclusion through Space Syntax Method Analysis
VUW, since 2015
PETTY, Margaret
Cultures of light : Electric light in the United States, 1890s-1950s
VUW, 2015-2016
NGUYEN, Ngoc Minh
Towards The Making of User Friendly Public Space in China
VUW, 2015-2016
PETERA, Kasun
Outdoor Thermal Comfort: Developing an Index to Predict Outdoor Thermal Comfort in Hot and Cold Climates
VUW, since 2016
LO, Tian Tian Sky
A Study of the Potential in Using Gamification to Develop a Digital Platform for Multi-User-Oriented Housing Design
CUHK & VUW, since 2013
AYDIR, Serdar
Decoding Kashgar within Digital Heritage
CUHK & VUW, since 2013
DAI Qun, Carol
Urban Heat based on Environment & Urban Form
CUHK, 2011-2014
PAULINI, Mercèdes
Context-aware Captology in Pervasive Computing
USYD, 2008-2010
MILOU, Anthony
On Demand Knowledge Access for students and recent Graduates USYD, 2008-2009
NG, Kal
Digital Animation
HKU 2004-2006
SEICHTER, Hartmut
Augmented Reality in Architectural Urban Design
HKU, 2004-2006
KUAN, Steven
Three dimensional Designs within Voxel Based Virtual Environments HKU, 2003-2005
LI, Weidong
Digitally Assisted Participation in Design Studio Critique
HKU, 2003-2005
MArch Supervision
ROGERS, Jessie
Digital Design Ecology
VUW, 2018-2019
WANG, Brandon
Design Systems informed by Human Behaviour
VUW, 2018-2019
QURESHI, Cyrus
Beyond the Portal: Exploring Cities through Mixed Realities
VUW, 2018-2019
NGUYEN, Duong
Mindful Manifestation: Neuroimaging Architecture from EEG to Virtual Reality
VUW, 2018-2019
INNES, Daniel
Perception of Scale in Virtual Reality
VUW, 2017-2018
MEEKINGS, Scott
Architectural Big Data for Datamed Architecture
VUW, 2016-2017
VAN VELTHOOVEN, Claudia
Parametric Wind: A high-rise for Wellington
VUW, M. Arch, 2016-2017
HASLOP, Blaire
Glitch Architecture
VUW, 2016-2017
KRUEGER, Christen
The other side of the mirror
VUW, 2016
Philip Penn
Responsive Environments
VUW, M. Arch, 2015
Yunjing Zhang
Response Dynamics: An investigation of dynamic context as generator of parametric design
VUW, M. Arch, 2015-2016
Viliame Rawalai
Designing a Social Communication Tool for Project Management
VUW, M. Arch, 2015-2016
Mint Penpisuth Wallace Metabopolis: Biomorphic Transportation Framework for Cities of the Future
VUW, M. Arch, 2015-2016
Joshua Dubbeld
Half a Good House; Incremental Housing for Wellington's First Home Buyers
VUW, M. Arch, 2015-2016
TSANG Wai Ching Billy
Civic Engagement
CUHK, M.Arch, 2014-105
Po Yi Wong Connie
Sensation of Nature
CUHK, M.Arch, 2014-105
CHEUNG Chung Kan
Urban Waste
CUHK, M.Arch, 2013-2014
LEE Ping Yin Kampfer
Kinetic Architecture
CUHK, M.Arch, 2013-2014
WONG Ka Po
Interactive Retail Spaces
CUHK, M.Arch, 2013-2014
YU Ming Tai
Volumetric Urban Underground
CUHK, M.Arch, 2013-2014
CHEUNG, Catherine Yuen Li
Shrinking City
CUHK, M.Arch, 2012-2013
HO, Hang Chun
Vertical Fairground
CUHK, MArch, 2012-2013
LU, Qing
Ideal Community
CUHK, M.Arch, 2012-2013
OR, Man Piu
Vertical Urbanism
CUHK, M.Arch, 2012-2013
TO, Yin Jimmy
Public Space for/to/by the Public
CUHK, M.Arch, 2012-2013
Cheung Pui Kin Ivan
Performative Environments
CUHK, M.Arch, 2011-2012
Au, Bobby
Digital Techonics in Urban Context
CUHK, M.Arch, 2010-2011
Gan, Yile:
Urban Connector as Community Generator
CUHK, M.Arch, 2010-2011
Ngan Yuk Kei
Adaptable Micro Urbanism: Alchemy of Sham Shui Po
CUHK, M.Arch, 2009-2010
Yick Ho Alvin Kung
Urban Gene Therapy: Parametric Regeneration
CUHK, M.Arch, 2009-2010
High Distinction & Year Award
Yip, Wai Yee Janie
[M]ovement, [T]ime, [R]adiance
HKU, M.Arch, 2002-2003
High Distinction
Lo, Kin-choi Heiren
Towards Intelligence: Idea of reflexivity in Topological architecture
HKU, M.Arch, 2002-2003
Yeung, Sze Hang Jess
Adaptive Social Underground Linkage
HKU, M.Arch, 2002-2003