ABSTRACT The need to undergo fertility treatment to fulfill parenthood aspirations involves many challenges in professional and personal domains. Extant scholarship has tended to focus on the identity threats and individual experiences of the challenges involved, but research has not delved into the more relational experiences that may characterize ...
Céire Gilsenan +3 more
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Sustainable Design Reuse: Integrating Biomimicry and Parametric Thinking in Architectural Education. [PDF]
Semlali A, Tamzini S, Cazacova L.
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Enhanced Roofs for Passive Building Design: A Systematic Review of Thermal and Energy Performance
This systematic review evaluates PCM‐ and NePCM‐integrated roofing systems for passive cooling. PCM roofs reduce heat flux and indoor temperature fluctuations, while NePCMs improve thermal conductivity with latent heat trade‐offs. Hybrid cooling strategies enhance performance, and future challenges in scalability, durability, and practical ...
Peerzada Jaffar Abass, Mohammed Ibrahim
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An integrated development framework for data-driven model predictive control of thermal zones in buildings. [PDF]
Klanatsky P, Veynandt F, Heschl C.
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Abstract Soft pneumatic systems offer promising pathways for adaptive façade technologies capable of dynamic shading and responsive morphology. Building on the Pneufin concept—a switchable pneumatic envelope made from polyurethane‐coated nylon membranes—this work presents a computational modeling and optimization framework integrating nonlinear finite ...
Marcello Gori +6 more
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Breakthrough in architecture-Contemporary Iraqi architecture case study. [PDF]
Al-Assadi FI +2 more
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Potential and limitations for ETFE‐foils in pneumatically retractable structures
Abstract Rising urban temperatures due to the urban heat‐island effect increase the demand for multifunctional, lightweight façade and roofing systems that span large areas and enable adaptive envelope functions – such as shading and ventilation – to improve climate resilience.
Dominik Runge +2 more
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Learning from Nature: Bio-Inspired Designs and Strategies for Efficient On-Earth and Off-Earth Ventilation Systems. [PDF]
Riani U +3 more
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Textile Shading Facades as an Energy Retrofit Strategy: Case Study of the Cefla Office Building
Abstract Lightweight textile membranes have increasingly been adopted in facade retrofit applications due to their minimal self‐weight, high prefabrication potential and capacity to function as external solar filters. In office buildings characterized by extensive glazed facades, excessive solar gains contribute to overheating, glare and elevated ...
Roberto Canobbio, Milan Dragoljevic
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Biocide-Containing Facades Alter Culture-Based Bacterial and Fungal Community Composition and Resistance Patterns to Octylisothiazolinone. [PDF]
Ciok M +6 more
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