Bio

Farzaneh Oghazian is an Assistant Professor of Architecture at North Carolina State University. Her research explores the intersection of computational design, material behavior, digital fabrication, and lightweight structures, with a particular focus on textiles and bio-based materials in architecture. Her work investigates how material behavior can become an active part of the design process through computational form-finding, simulation, machine learning, physical modeling, and digital fabrication.

Her research explores knitted textiles as architectural systems and as frameworks for developing new composite and bio-based materials. Her collaborative work includes MycoKnit, a project exploring knitted textiles and mycelium-based composites for large-scale biodegradable architectural structures, which received the 2021 SOM Foundation Research Prize. She has also collaborated on Flower Antenna, a knitted textile installation that explores computational textiles, sound, and transmission, exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art as part of Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America.

Her teaching connects computational thinking, structures, and hands-on making. She emphasizes learning through making and encourages students to explore the relationship between material, geometry, structure, and fabrication through physical and digital experimentation.

She holds a Ph.D. in Design Computing in Architecture from The Pennsylvania State University, an M.Arch. from Tarbiat Modares University, and a B.Arch. from the University of Tehran, Iran.

Area(s) of Expertise

Computational Design, Lightweight Structures, Architectural Knitted Textiles, Machine Learning, Human Computer Interaction (HCI)

Publications

• A Compendious Investigation of Double Skin Façade Structural Element Impacts on Flow and Heat Transfer in Hot-Dry Climates , SSRN Electronic Journal (2023)
• Form-finding of Architectural Knitted Tensioned Structures , Hybrids and Haecceities - Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Conference of the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture, ACADIA 2022 (2023)
• Calibrating a Formfinding Algorithm for Simulation of Tensioned Knitted Textile Architectural Models , Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia (2022)
• A multi-scale workflow for designing with new materials in architecture: Case studies across materials and scales: Case studies across materials and scales , Projections - Proceedings of the 26th International Conference of the Association for Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia, CAADRIA 2021 (2021)
• Circuit Game , Lecture notes in computer science (2020)
• The role of geometry and non-uniform distribution of openings in daylighting performance of solar screens , Proceedings of 33rd PLEA International Conference: Design to Thrive, PLEA 2017 (2017)

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