Frank Hinoporos

Frank is a recent graduate from Carleton’s M.Arch program. Prior to pursuing his M.Arch Frank worked for 3 years as part of a small local practice.  He completed his thesis, Disrupting the Global Supply Chain, A Hyper-local Approach to the Built Environment in the spring of 2024 with Dr. Sheryl Boyle as his advisor. His thesis was recognized both by Carleton’s Architecture Department awarding it the Maxwell Taylor Prize and by the RAIC who awarded the thesis the CAGBC Scholarship for Sustainable Design and Research.

Frank joined CSALT in early 2024 at the tail-end of his thesis year as part of a collaborative project between Carleton Architecture and Engineering professors, including Dr. Sheryl Boyle and Dr. Liam O’Brien, UofT, and the National Research Council. The project focused on measuring operational and embodied carbon for typical two Canadian homes across several climate zones and energy efficiency tiers. Frank was responsible for modelling said homes in all their variations and extracting volumetric data to be used in the embodied carbon calculations. Using the parametric tools of Revit, Rhino.Inside, and Grasshopper to develop a hybrid model that can export the necessary data without having to model the 120 individual homes that would otherwise be required.

Frank is interested in sustainable and efficient building practices, parametric design, material reuse, design for disassembly and adaptability (DfDA), embodied carbon as well as emerging building materials.