Liyanage Ruchira

Doctoral Researcher

Description

Doctoral student in the Faculty of Built Environment at Tampere University, with a strong passion for building physics, built heritage, and climate resilience in buildings. My research primarily focuses on developing building archetypes for Finnish residential buildings, exploring their evolution and resilience in the face of climate challenges. Additionally, I am interested in communal architectural governance models, insurgent planning, and urban activism, examining how bottom-up approaches can shape more sustainable and inclusive built environments. My background in architecture includes expertise in sustainable design, passive building strategies, urban climate, thermal comfort, computational climate simulations, and post-occupancy building evaluation, along with experience as a project architect.

Keywords

Urban Climate, Thermal Comfort, Daylight, Smart Buildings, Climate Change, Energy Efficiency, Robotics, Archetypes, Urban physics

Affiliations

Tampere University

Doctoral Researcher

Primary

2025 - 2028

Primary

Source: ORCID

Tampere University

Research Assistant

2024 - 2025

Source: ORCID

Kahawita De Silva Associates

Project Architect

2021 - 2022

Source: ORCID

Chinthaka Wickramage Associates

Junior Architect

2018 - 2019

Source: ORCID

Education (2)

Master's in Sustainable Architecture

Tampere University

Bachelor of Architecture Honours

University of Moratuwa

Publications (4)

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2024

Sustainable built environments: Supporting Co-benefits for health and well-being

Open access

2023

How to Support Sustainable Living in Tampere as an International

Open access

2021

Vegetation Cover Effects on Outdoor Thermal Comfort Around High-rise Developments; A Case Study of Havelock City, Colombo, Sri Lanka

Open access

DOI

10.4038/faruj.v8i1.86

Granted funding (3)

DC Living LAB in collaboration with Creativity World Forum 2024

City of Tampere, Finland and Local Council Basque Country, Spain

2024

Digitalization for All

Tampere University

2024

Master's in Sustainable Architecture, Tampere University, Finland

Tampere University

2022 - 2024

Activities and awards (6)

Conference presentation

Refuge from the cold

2024 - present

Conference presentation

Unearthing the legacy: Sri Lankan vernacular architecture's global impact on built environment and sustainability potential modern issues

2024 - present

Membership

Student Representative from Faculty of Built Environment

DigiSus Research Platform

2024 - present