Research

Funded Research Projects:
“Enhancing Post-Project Evaluation of NHS Estates with Annotated 3D Interactive Navigation (A3DIN): Jordanthorpe Health Centre Case Study”, Research Stimulation Fund, Faculty of Social Sciences, £1,675, October 2011 – July 2012. PI: Chengzhi Peng; CIs: Michael Phiri (Architecture), Robert Gaizauskas, Mark Hepple (Computer Science), Sarah Barnes and Jenny Owen (ScHARR); RAs: Alison Chang and Leon Derczynski.
“The Augustine House Experiment”, JISC Institutional Innovation Programme – Benefits Realisation Phase 1b, £15,000, Jan 2010 – Nov 2010. PI: Chengzhi Peng; RAs: Darren Roberts and Panagiotis Patlakas.
“A Web-Based Interactive Visualisation Modelling Platform to Effect Participative and Collaborative Planning and Design of Future Learning Spaces”, JISC Institutional Innovation Programme, Call II: Large-Scale Institutional Exemplars, £297,344 (Total Project Cost: £371,679 with Institutional Contribution: £74,335), October 2008 – 31 March 2010. PI: Chengzhi Peng; RAs: Darrent Roberts, Panagiotis Patlakas, Puja Basu, Howard Evens and Leo Care.
“Food Urbanism Initiative”, Swiss National Science Foundation Division IV, National Research Programmes (NRP), 630,000 CHF, Sept 2010 – Aug 2013. PI: Craig Verzone. Project participants: Lucas Bertschinger, Anna Crole-Rees, Michel Dumondel, Therese Haller, Katja Heitkaemper, Rachel Hill, Jeffrey Huang, Bernard Lehmann, Mark Meagher, Trevor Patt.
“Superstudio”, Swiss cooperation project in architecture, Swiss National Science Foundation, 330,000 CHF, 2008 – 2010. PI: Jeffrey Huang. Project Partners: Dieter Dietz, Laurent Stalder, Fabio Gramazio, Mathias Kohler, Pau Sola-Morales. RA’s: Guillaume Labelle, Mark Meagher, Nathaniel Zuelzke.

Current PhD Thesis Projects:
Sukaina Almousa, “Temporary architecture: Tracing narrative and the body/mind journey in installation art”, supervisors: Dr Stephen Walker and Dr Mark Meagher.
Amr Fawzy Abdelaziz Elwan, “Supporting climate change conscious urban neighbourhood (re)design through environmental simulation and visualization: An outdoor-indoor coupling approach”, funded by the Ministry of Defence, Arab Republic of Egypt, starting January 2010, supervisors: Dr Chengzhi Peng and Dr Hasim Altan.
Maryam Fazel “Time space in animated diagrams – an arrow from spatiotemporality to temporality in diagramming”, supervisors: Dr Mark Meagher and Dr Stephen Walker.
Sushardjanti Felasari, “Enhancing Virtual City with Collective Memory to Support Architectural and Urban Design Learning”, funded by the Indonesian Directorate General of Higher Education Overseas Postgraduate Scholarship Programme, starting January 2009, supervisor: Dr Chengzhi Peng.
Adam Park, “Performative Mapping of Urban Spaces”, funded by the RECITE Scholarship, University of Sheffield, starting Nov 2010, supervisors: Dr Chengzhi Peng and Dr Daniela Romana (Department of Computer Science).
Octavianus Cahyono Priyanto, “User Preferences of Visual Comfort in Higher Education Learning Spaces”, funded by the Indonesian Directorate Development General of Higher Education Overseas Postgraduate Scholarship Programme, starting Oct 2011, supervisors: Dr Chengzhi Peng, Prof Steve Fotios.
Yang Yu, “Fusion of Physical and Digital Representations in Architecture: A Mixed Reality Modelling Approach”, partially funded by the Fee Waiver Scholarship at the University of Sheffield, starting September 2011, supervisors: Dr Chengzhi Peng and Dr Mark Meagher.

Completed PhD Thesis Projects:
Renato Cesar Ferreira de Souza, “A Place-Theoretical Framework for the of IT in Urban Spaces”, September 2004 – August 2008, through funded by Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES), Brazil, successful completion (Supervisor: Dr Chengzhi Peng).
Nadia Mounajjed, “Relational Interfacings: Body, Memory and Architecture in the Digital Age”, funded by the University Project Studentships, University of Sheffield, September 2003 – August 2007, successful completion (Supervisors: Dr Chengzhi Peng & Dr Stephen Walker).