Research Unit
PRMS
Architecture Lab
Independent research unit focused on the development, validation, and dissemination of measurable architectural systems. It operates around the PRMS framework, integrating architecture, energy systems, and data-driven performance evaluation in built environments.
Mission
What the Lab does
The Lab develops theoretical frameworks, constructs real-world prototypes, and produces measurable evidence to validate architecture as a performance-driven system. Its work spans conceptual modeling, applied implementation, and continuous data feedback.
Research Areas
Lines of inquiry
Foundation → Unit → Measurement → System → Validation → Scale
ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATION SYSTEMS
Research framework on the thermodynamic and normative principles governing the exchange of energy, water, and matter between the built environment and its climatic context, as the conceptual foundation of the PRMS program.
METABOLIC ARCHITECTURE
Investigation of the PRMS node as the minimum functional unit of the built environment, defined by four invariant functions — produce, regulate, inhabit, and measure — independent of typology, geometry, or scale.
PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT
Development and calibration of composite indices for verifiable building performance, integrating energy production, passive regulation, habitability, and return on investment into continuous validation instruments compatible with the PRMS framework.
DATA-DRIVEN SYSTEMS
Design of real-time data acquisition, processing, and feedback architectures that transform the continuous monitoring of PRMS nodes into an operative condition of energy sovereignty for the inhabitant.
APPLIED PROTOTYPING
Construction and post-occupancy evaluation of physical nodes under the PRMS protocol, where each prototype operates as a controlled scientific experiment with measurement and verification according to the IPMVP standard.
URBAN METABOLISM AND DISTRIBUTED URBAN SYSTEMS
Modeling of the scalar aggregation of PRMS nodes — from dwelling to district — including the design of surplus flow exchange networks between nodes, identifying emergent properties of collective energy resilience that are not predictable from the isolated analysis of each unit.
Research Output
Publications and evidence
The Lab produces peer-reviewed articles, working papers, and preprints. All publications are indexed with DOIs and linked to the author's ORCID record.
View PublicationsInstitutional Identity
Institutional Identity
All research outputs are produced under PRMS Architecture Lab. The institutional affiliation used in all publications, repository records, and indexing systems is: PRMS Architecture Lab, Querétaro, México.
Renewable Horizons begins editorial production. A corpus of applied research on renewable energy systems and distributed sustainability models starts to form.
PRMS Architecture Lab is formally established as an institutional entity. The PRMS framework (Performance-Responsive Metabolic System) is defined as a structured and measurable architectural system.
Public consolidation: prms.systems launches, the first DOI is registered under the Lab’s institutional name, the three-division structure is declared, and the ROR application process begins.
Ecosystem
System relationship
PRMS Architecture Lab operates within the PRMS framework and connects directly with its applied implementation through PEAR-ROI.
PRMS closed-loop system
PRMS establishes the governing framework. PEAR-ROI operationalizes it in built environments, integrating design, construction, performance measurement, and continuous feedback.
Structure
PRMS Architecture Lab
PRMS Architecture Lab is organized as an integrated research structure composed of three interrelated divisions, combining theoretical development, applied systems, and editorial production.
PRMS Research
Theoretical development, conceptual frameworks, and scientific publications.
PRMS Systems
Applied research, prototyping, and performance-regulated system implementation.
Renewable Horizons
Editorial division (2021–present), focused on energy systems and distributed sustainability models.