Asst. Prof. Dr. Martin Schoch

Martin Schoch is a Fulbright Scholar. He is a licensed architect with practice experience in the United States, Germany and Thailand. He is a lecturer for the Bulding Innovation and Enviromential Technology. As an architect and DGNB consultant for the German sustainable building assessment system, he is an associate of Unexpected Co., Ltd., an architectural design firm in Bangkok.

martin.sch@mail.kmutt.ac.th
martin.sch@kmutt.ac.th
martin@unxp.asia

Ph.D. (Information Technology), Shinawatra University, Thailand (2011)

M.Arch. (Architecture), Pratt Institute, U.S.A. (1998)

ARC 281 Environmental Technology I: Comfort Factors and Thermal Design
ARC 383 Environmental Technology III: Building Service Systems
ARC 445 Architectural Design V
ARC 446 Architectural Design VI
ARC 484 Environmental Technology IV: Energy-Efficient Building Design Techniques and Simulation
ARC 501 Thesis Preparation
ARC 502 Thesis Prerequisite
DPL 701 Project Study
DPL 710 Thesis

Humanitarian Design Lab

• Pilot Project with Pruksa PLC, for sustainabale single familiy housing. The project named “Pruksa+ House” is certified and awarded with Platinum Award in 2017 from the DGNB (German Sustainable Building Council)
• Liaison Architect for German Embassy, Bangkok (since 2017)
• Research Design Project for German Organization for International Cooperation (GIZ) for the GIZ / UNESCAP Urban Nexus Project (Energy Efficiency Study for Chiang Mai Health Care Center)
• Research Design Project for GIZ / UNESCAP Urban Nexus Project (Low Income Housing in Santa Rosa, Philippines)
• Research Design Project for GIZ / UNESCAP Urban Nexus Project (Housing Project for Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia)

UNESCO honorable mention for UIA 2000 “ Architecture and Water”
DGNB Platinum Award 2017 for “Pruksa Plus House”

• Nway Kyaw, T. T., Praditsmanont, A., & Schoch, M. (2018). “Evaluating Sustainable Strategies for Improving Operation and Maintenance of Building Stock”. Proceedings SAAN (The First International Conference on Design, Innovation and Creativity). Bangkok: King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi (Article code T610178).
• Heng, L., Schoch, M., & Praditsmanont, A. (2018). ”An Evaluation and Decision Support Tool for Improving the Understanding of Sustainable Building Assessment Guideline Criteria”. Proceedings SAAN (The First International Conference on Design, Innovation and Creativity). Bangkok: King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi (Article code T610177).
• Schoch, M. (2017). Study of Chiang Mai Health Care Center – Suggested Measures for Energy Efficiency. Bangkok: GIZ Urban Nexus / UNESCAP. Retrieved from https://www.unescap.org/…/ Report_TH_ChiangMai_HealthCareCenter_2017_0.pdf
• Schoch, M. (2017). Low-Income Housing in Santa Rosa, Philippines. Bangkok: GIZ Urban Nexus / UNESCAP. Retrieved from https://www.unescap.org/…/
• Martin Schoch and Sunaree Lawanyawatna, “Exploring the Future of Sustainable Energy Efficiency in Thai Homes”, Update Magazine – German Thai Chamber of Commerce.
• Martin Schoch, “Life-Cycle Cost Based Optimization of Building Volume Designs during Early Architectural Design Stages” (Dissertation, Bangkok: Shinawatra University, 2011).
• Martin Schoch, Apichat Praditsmanont, and Chakguy Prakasvudhisarn, “Building-Volume Optimization (BVO) using a Constraint Programming Approach for Life-Cycle Cost Based Sustainable Design,” International Journal of Sustainable Building Technology and Urban Development 2, no. 4 (December 31, 2011).
• Martin Schoch and Sunaree Lawanyawatna, “Teaching Architecture Design through Character Reading,” Architectural / Planning Research and Studies (JARS) 7, no. 2 (2010): 1-18.
• Martin Schoch, Chakguy Prakasvudhisarn, and Apichat Praditsmanont, “Building-Volume Designs with Optimal Life-Cycle Costs,” International Journal of Architectural Computing 9, no. 1 (March 2011): 55-76.
• Martin Schoch and Apichat Praditsmanont, “Experimenting with Building Footprint Formation and Volume Optimization: A constraint programming approach for the optimization of building-volumes based on combinatorial rectangular footprint formations”, Proceedings eCAADe, vol. 28, 2010.
• Martin Schoch, Apichat Praditsmanont, and Chakguy Prakasvudhisarn, “Shaping building volumes through life cycle costs: a constraint programming approach for building volume optimization”, Proceedings CAADRIA, vol. 15, 2010.