FORGE
A design-science lab for human-building-climate systems at The University of Hong Kong.
Future, Occupant, Risk, and Generative Environments
What we're doing
The research programme connects people, integrated building systems, and climate futures, with thermal protection and energy uncertainty at their intersections.
Why FORGE?
The lab is built on a simple position: architecture and energy systems have drifted too far from the people they claim to serve. FORGE writes people back into simulation, control, climate risk, and design reasoning.
Who’s here
FORGE is a compact research group spanning a postdoctoral researcher, PhD students, research assistants on site at HKU and remote locations, and undergraduate RAs. The team is currently working across ASHRAE 1959-TRP on updating real human heat assumptions, climate stress-testing and stochastic future weather modeling, ordinal thermal comfort, and Socratic Oracle as a design-pedagogy platform.
Open TeamWhat we work on
FORGE moves between building simulation, comfort science, climate futures, and design-facing AI through a small set of recurring technical workflows.
Recent output
Uses predicted probabilities of thermal sensation to inform HVAC supervision, examining delivered-energy and operative-temperature trade-offs across a weather stress grid.
Accepted 27 September 2026.
Hongshan Guo
Accepted 15 September 2026.
Hongshan Guo, Kanxuan He
Examines how future weather and population ageing affect residential cooling service and thermal outcomes under equal cooling setpoints. DOI
Hongshan Guo