Dr Masa Noguchi is an Associate Professor in Environmental Design at the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, University of Melbourne, specialising in "Environmental Experience Design (EXD)" research that enbraces value analysis and mass customisation techniques applied to architectural design decision-making process. In parallel to EXD studies, he also initiated global movement on zero energy mass custom home (ZEMCH) and vertical village/subdivision plug-in housing system research and development for future-proof city evolution.
Dr Noguchi is a Chartered Engineer, Environmentalist, and Technological Product Designer registered respectively with the Engineering Council, Society for the Environment, and the Institution of Engineering Designers in the UK. In 2002, he also became a member of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada and today, he serves as a Certified Passive House Designer registered with the Passive House Institute in Germany. Dr Noguchi is the founding coordinator of ZEMCH Network (www.zemch.org) which consists of nearly 790 partners from over 40 countries and developed a series of industry-academia knowledge transfer events. ZEMCH international conferences (from 2012), ZEMCH sustainable design workshops (from 2014) and ZEMCH technical missions (from 2006) are amongst the projects being organised by ZEMCH Network today in partnership with the regional experts centres based currently in Australia, Brazil, Italy, Korea, UAE and UK. At the Melbourne School of Design, he leads ZEMCH (Zero Energy Mass Custom Home) design courses, i.e. "Travelling Studio" and "Design Thesis Studio", within the graduate program. Before coming to Melbourne, he was a Reader at the Mackintosh School of Architecture, The Glasgow School of Art affiliated with the University of Glasgow, where he established a ZEMCH pathway within the Master of Architectural Studies program. His research is based on ZEMCH engineering design and socially, economically, environmentally and humanly sustainable housing community developments in global contexts. Inventing a "mass custom design" system approach to qualitu affordable housing, he developed a digitalised interactive mass custom design communication tool, which was demonstrated in the US Department of Energy Solar Decathlon's Canadian house 2005. In 2006, he designed Canada's first net zero energy home - Alouette Homes' EcoTerra house - built and commercialised through the federal government's EQuilibrium sustainable housing initiative/competition in 2007. Moreover, he also contributed to Scottish and Brazilian ZEMCH construction projects. Serving as the editorial board member of over 15 journals, Dr Noguchi is frequently invited to deliver keynote lectures on ZEMCH R&D actions at national and international conferences stressing the need for EXD research and practice in built environments for the occupants' physical and mental health and well-being. Masa lives in Melbourne with his wife, Oxana, and their four children, Sophia Misato, Margaret Miwa, Anna Miko and Emily Reiwa.
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Honours, Awards and Fellowships
MSD Teaching and Learning Award for Innovative Teaching
Scottish Crucible 2010
Team Award
Government of Canada Awards
Credentials
Positions
Associate Professor In Environmental Design
Architecture, Building And Planning
Chartered Technological Product Designer (Ctpd)
Institution of Engineering Designers
Certified Passive House Designer
Passive House Institute
Member
Institution of Engineering Designers
Chartered Engineer (Ceng)
Engineering Council
Chartered Environmentalist (Cenv)
Society for the Environment
On Construction Domestic Energy Assessor (Ocdea: Nher Scheme)
National Energy Services
Code For Sustainable Homes Assessor (Bre Scheme)
Building Research Establishment
Breeam Ecohomes Assessor (Bre Scheme)
Building Research Establishment
Member
Royal Architectural Institute of Canada
Education
Post Graduate Certificate in Learning & Teaching
University of the Arts London
Doctor of Philosophy in Architecture
McGill University
Master of Architecture
McGill University
Bachelor of Engineering in Architecture
Kogakuin University