Dr Michelle Yingying JIANG

Module Coordinator of Dense and Green Cities

Michelle Jiang is an architect and a researcher. She works as a programme coordinator at the Zurich Hub for Future Cities Lab (FCL) Global (FCL Global) and also as a research module coordinator and senior researcher in FCL Global. She has been in the FCL programme since 2013, studying building typologies and their post-occupancy performance in terms of social benefits.

Her research includes Space Syntax analysis, socio-spatial analysis on space use behaviour and space appropriation, space use perception and preference, and space design strategies, bridging various scales from buildings to precincts, neighbourhoods and districts. In FCL 2.0, Michelle worked closely with a team of experts on Dense and Green Building Typologies for three years. The team showcased their research findings in the Architecture Biennale of Venice 2018 and held a public symposium, “Dense and Green Typologies”, with thw Singapore Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA).

Before joining FCL, she was the CIB-HKU Student Chapter president at The University of Hong Kong. The Student Chapter supports the communication and exchanges between postgraduate students in architecture, building and construction in the universities in Hong Kong. In the meantime, Michelle coordinated and assisted several international conferences and architectural design competitions in the Commission W104 Open Building Implementation under the International Council for Research and Innovation in Building and Construction (CIB).

Michelle interests include architectural history, socio-spatial studies, Space Syntax, housing, open building and building adaptability and flexibility. She participated in the EPFL research group The Smart Living Lab in Blue Factory, Fribourg/Freiburg, Switzerland, where she drafted the programme of building space flexibility and usability.

Her PhD research studied the Open Building system and individual involvement in the massive residential projects. The research was based on the theories and practice of flexible and adaptable buildings and investigated the diversity of individual users involved in the architectural design and building process and final building performance in their life span. Her works on building flexibility and adaptability were presented in several international conferences and published in some international journals.

Awards

Young Research Award 2011: A4D Architecture in the Fourth Dimension, the 17th Annual Conference of the CIB W104 Commission Open Building Implementation

Exhibitions & Conferences

SSS 2017: The 11th Space Syntax Symposium, Lisbon, Portugal
APNHR 2013: Asia Pacific Network for Housing Research Conference
The 17th International Conference on “Architecture in the Fourth Dimension”, Boston, The United States.
The 16th International Conference on “Open and Sustainable Building”, Bilbao, Spain
2009 CIB Conference “Changing Roles: New Roles, New Challenges”, Noordwijk aan Zee, The Netherland
The 8th Academic Seminar on Traditional Dwellings Across the Taiwan Strait & Settlement and Culture of Hakka, Ganzhou City, Jiangxi Province, China

Education

2008-2012: PhD in Architecture, The university of Hong Kong
2005-2008: Master in Architectural History and Theory, Shenzhen University, China
1999-2004: Bachelor of Engineering in Architecture, Zhejiang University of Technology, China

Publications

View Michelle's list of FCL-related publications here.