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Conjugate Heat Transfer in an Adaptive Façade
Challenging Glass Conference ProceedingsAs a boundary between interior and exterior, the building envelope and its thermal properties are crucial for heat lost and indoor comfort. Dynamic building envelopes offer the potential to optimize buildings in terms of energy efficiency, save ...
Max Stoppel, Pietro Di Biase
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT As the housing and building sectors face the urgent challenge of decarbonization, attention is increasingly shifting beyond conventional efficiency strategies toward the principle of sufficiency. This study explores how sufficiency can reshape the housing landscape, although there is no standardized understanding of sufficiency in these ...
Anne Fischer, Marlen Gabriele Arnold
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Adaptive Skins - Adaptive and Autoreactive Building Facades
, 2013 Building envelopes – the interface between the occupier of a building and the individual climatic conditions of the environment – are the essential influencing factors for the energy consumption of a building.[1]The dispute on different levels between each area, components, groups of components and materials, has always been crucial for new and ...
Braun, Dirk Henning, Bader, Benedikt
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Architecture, Civil Engineering, EnvironmentThis paper showcases three selected student projects on adaptive kinetic facades (AKFs) from the design studio “Smart Shade”, highlighting their influence on visual comfort, an essential component of occupants’ wellbeing and energy efficiency. Three case
Matheou Maria, Phocas Marios C.
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Electric utilities are expected to implement measures to improve their performance in all three dimensions of sustainable development—environmental, social, and economic. While several studies have investigated the environmental dimension, measures related to the social pillar have hardly been researched to date.
Shekerta Aliu +2 more
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Adaptive Parameter Tuning For Morphological Segmentation Of Building Facade Images
, 2012 Publication in the conference proceedings of EUSIPCO, Bucharest, Romania ...
Andrés Serna +2 more
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, 2017 With the aim to address the sustainability of life cycle aspects in adaptive building skins a mapping of the main parameters and variables characterising the Life cycle assessment of Adaptive Building Skins (henceforth ABS) is proposed.
CRESPI, MANUELA +2 more
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Sustainable Building Designs and Practices (SBDPs) are increasingly important for reducing environmental impacts, conserving resources, and improving occupant well‐being. This study examines New Zealand building professionals' perceptions of the integration and performance of energy efficiency (EE), water efficiency (WE), and Indoor ...
Tharaya Poorisat +3 more
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Concrete in architecture: Redefining form, space, function, and insights from bibliometric analysis
Structural Concrete, EarlyView.Abstract Concrete has become a cornerstone in architectural and engineering innovation, as it seamlessly integrates structural performance with artistic expression. Its evolution from ancient opus caementicium to contemporary ultra‐high‐performance concrete illustrates its adaptability to the change in technological, environmental, and design paradigms.
Mouhcine Benaicha +2 more
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Quantum potential energy: Adaptive facades in architecture
Sustainable Engineering and InnovationThis paper addressed the topic of creating quantum architecture through human awareness to transform the formal and spatial elements of architecture according to its environmental sustainability compatible with nature. The research emphasizes the creation of a built environment that uses natural resources to enhance the psychological and physical ...
Batool Mowafaq Kadhim +2 more
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