Niyati Naik
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Niyati Naik

Assistant Professor
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About Niyati Naik

Dr. Niyati Naik has a well-rounded experience in practice, research, and teaching in Architecture. In her doctoral research she investigated how adaptive external façade shading systems can be designed to influence indoor environmental variability and occupants thermal pleasure perception. She has an extensive experience at teaching technical courses to architecture students.
Dr. Niyati Naik has a well-rounded experience in practice, research, and teaching in Architecture. In her doctoral research she investigated on how adaptive external façade shading systems can be designed to influence indoor environmental variability and occupant s thermal pleasure perception. In her teaching activities at University of Oregon, she taught technical courses to architecture students. The courses involved topics in climate science, building energy performance, thermal-visual comfort, daylighting, water-fire management, and acoustics. Right after her PhD, she had a short stint as a Sustainability Specialist at CallisonRTKL, California. At CRTKL she helped design teams in making necessary decisions for creating high-performance and Net-Zero buildings designed by the firm in countries like Saudi Arabia, UK, South Korea, and China.As an architecture practitioner in India, she has an experience in working on commercial-institutional projects like the office blocks in L&T Knowledge City, Baroda and Institute of Plasma Research in Gandhinagar. Moreover, she has worked in the design team that developed master plan for TATA Steel s Noamundi township in Jharkhand, TATA Autocomp s industrial set-up in Pune, Maharashtra, and a multi-family housing development in Pen, Maharastra.
  • Building and Indoor Environmental Sciences
  • Mixed-Methods Research in Architecture
  • Architectural Design

Conference Proceedings

  1. It’s cool and breezy in here!”: Case study of an earth-tube cooled building in Ahmedabad Affiliation: CEPT University Energise 2025
  2. Impact of Static and Dynamic Screens on Indoor Thermal Environment and Predicted Thermal Comfort: An exploration using full-scale experimental setups. Affiliation: University of Oregon Passive Low Energy Architecture (PLEA) Conference Proceedings
  3. Optimizing the Performance of Variable Geometry Shading Screens for Occupant’s Comfort Affiliation: University of Oregon Passive Low Energy Architecture (PLEA) Conference Proceedings
  4. External Dynamic Screens for Thermal Delight and Alliesthesia Affiliation: University of Orgon Associate Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) 108th Annual Meeting
  5. Performative environments for alliesthesia: Solar screened offices and human thermal perception within them under different sky conditions. Affiliation: University of Orgon Architectural Research Centers Consortium (ARCC) Conference Proceedings
  6. Resilience Thrift: Retrofit Strategies in Irregular Settlements Co authors: Melissa Smith, Catherine Desai International Network of Tropical Architecture (INTA)

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