Dr. Arch. Daniela Maiullari is an Assistant Professor at the chair of Environmental Technology and Design and an active member of the HERITAGE team (HEat Robustness In relation To the AGEing cities program). In her research, as an urbanist and as a scholar, she investigates the environmental performance of urban forms to advance climate-responsive design and planning. Her current work focuses on the interactions between urban form, urban climate, and energy transition processes to address the challenges of decarbonizing cities while adapting to a warmer future. She is actively involved in Living Labs activities to develop design guidelines for heat stress mitigation in Dutch and European cities. In particular, her studies address the challenge of creating and testing data-driven morphological methods for identifying and assessing integrated urban cooling solutions for the built environment.

In the graduation studio, Daniela is interested in supervising projects that integrate climate analytics and urban design across multiple scales, creating a synergic workflow between research and design. Possible graduation topics can include:

  • Urban strategies for mitigating indoor and outdoor temperatures or for adapting to global and urban warming
  • Heat exposure/mitigation potential of morphological patterns and planning models
  • Adaptive decarbonization measures and global warming impacts on energy consumption
  • Urban policy and strategies for sustainable energy transitions
  • Climate assessments of urban morphological types through observations and modelling techniques