Yohan Kim

Office

Room 109
3410 South State Street Chicago, IL 60616

Office Hours

By appointment

Phone 312.567.3230
ykim99@iit.edu

Expertise

Kim’s research centers on high-performance building façades, natural ventilation in tall office buildings, and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) modeling and analysis. His doctoral dissertation, entitled “The Feasibility of Double-Skin Façades (DSFs) to Provide Natural Ventilation in Tall Office Buildings,” investigates the impact of DSF configurations on indoor airflow behavior in tall office buildings and the integration of computational simulation into the design process.

Education

Ph.D., Illinois Institute of Technology
M.Arch., Illinois Institute of Technology
B.Arch., Inha University

Teaching Experience

Visiting Assistant Professor, Illinois Institute of Technology, 2022-present
Adjunct Professor, Illinois Institute of Technology, 2019

Selected Publications, Exhibits, and Recent Research

Kim, Y., Elnimeiri. M., and Clark, R. (2023). “The impact of double-skin façades on indoor airflow in naturally ventilated tall office buildings”. International Journal of High-Rise Buildings, Vol 12, No 2, 1-8.
Kim, Y. (2022). “The feasibility of double-skin façades to provide natural ventilation in tall office buildings”. Doctoral Dissertation, Illinois Institute of Technology.
Co-editor (2021). Prometheus Issue 05, Journal of the PhD program, IIT College of Architecture, Chicago, IL, ISSN 2688-0776 (Recipient of the 2020 AIA NYC Center for Architecture Douglas Haskell Award for Student Journals).
Kim, Y. (2021). “The feasibility of natural ventilation in Chicago’s tall office buildings using double-skin façades”. Proceedings of the ConCave Ph.D. Symposium: Divergence in Architectural Research, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA.