Valérie Mahaut
Assistant Professor
Faculty of Planning
University of Montreal
Canada
Biography
Valérie Mahaut is an Assistant Professor and her Education details are ARC1312 Architecture and Construction 2 ARC2314 Architecture and Construction 4 ARC3017 Architecture Project 1 (offered in collaboration with École Polytechnique) ARC3640 Green Architecture ARC5317 Lighting and acoustics ARC6814 Final project Since January 2011: Teaching of building physics, bioclimatism, passive architecture, environmental architecture and eco-construction. Installation of a mirror box at the Faculty of Planning for educational purposes. Supervision of projects focusing on climate architecture and natural lighting using experiments on reduced models in the simulator. Teacher in architecture project at UCL from 2000 to 2010 and member of project jury in different architecture schools in Quebec and abroad. Visiting Lecturer and Jury Member of the European Postgraduate Postgraduate Master of Advanced Studies (MAS) in Architecture and Sustainable Development, UCL-Architecture and Climat (Louvain-la-Neuve), EPFL-Leso-PB (Lausanne) , ENSAT-Grecau (Toulouse). Supervision of graduate work in the field of bioclimatic, eco-construction, building physics, natural lighting, sustainable architecture, water management. Master of Advanced Studies (MAS) in Architecture and Sustainable Development in the field of sustainable water management in urban areas. Her Areas of expertise are Architecture, Climatic changes, Environment and Sustainable Development, Urban water management, Modeling of heat exchanges.
Research Interest
Valérie Mahaut's research focuses on the relationship between urban form and water management in cities, as well as the impact of climate change on urban hydrology. They question interdisciplinarity in the management of rainwater (geology, history, engineering, architecture, sociology), and explore the concepts of urban naturalness, storm gardens and new urban rivers. More broadly, Valérie Mahaut is interested in the link between architecture and sustainable development, including the themes of climate and building physics, eco-construction, bioclimatism, natural lighting and modeling.
