Patrick Kastner
Patrick Kastner is a systems engineer and postdoctoral fellow at the Environmental Systems Lab with Associate Professor Timur Dogan. He is currently interested in environmental modeling to inform the multi-objective decision making of architects and urban planners. In his postdoctoral role, he provides decision support for the City of Ithaca to accelerate efforts to decarbonize its building stock until 2030. He is also the lead developer of Eddy3D, a performance-driven design toolkit that predicts outdoor thermal comfort in cities that is used by leading institutions in academia and practice.
He holds a Ph.D. and M.S. in Systems Science and Engineering from Cornell, an M.S. in Sustainable Building Science from TU Munich, and a B.S. in Energy Engineering from FAU Erlangen–Nuremberg. During his time in Munich, he also studied Technology Management at the Center for Digital Technology and Management (CDTM) and led operations at TEDxTUM, helping to organize four major events that hosted 1500+ attendees.
Academic Research/Specialty Areas
- Architectural design
- Architectural technology
- Cities
- Ecological practice
- Participatory and collaborative planning
- Sustainability
- Systems engineering
- Spatial analysis
- Architectural engineering
- Environmental performance simulation
- Decision making
Related Pages
Classes (Selected)
- ARCH 2616/5616 Envrironmental Systems II: Building Dynamics
Publications (Selected)
- Patrick Kastner and Timur Dogan. "Eddy3D: A toolkit for decoupled outdoor thermal comfort simulations in urban areas. Building and Environment," page 108639, 2021.
- Timur Dogan, Patrick Kastner, and Remy Mermelstein. "Surfer: A fast simulation algorithm to predict surface temperatures and mean radiant temperatures in large urban models." Building and Environment, 196:107762, 2021.
- Patrick Kastner and Timur Dogan. "A cylindrical meshing methodology for annual urban computational fluid dynamics simulations." Journal of Building Performance Simulation, 13(1):59–68, 2019.
