Creating sustainable cities one building at a time: towards an integrated urban design framework [PDF]
, 2017 One of the tenets of urban sustainability is that more compact urban forms that are more densely occupied are more efficient in their overall use of space and of energy.
Emmanuel, Rohinton +3 more
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Redefining Crystalline Silicon: Unlocking New Horizons in Transparent and Flexible Photovoltaics
Advanced Energy Materials, EarlyView.Crystalline silicon is presented as a platform for transparent and flexible photovoltaics. This review article outlines design principles for optical strategies to fabricate transparent silicon solar cells, mechanical strategies that mitigate silicon brittleness, and emerging concepts such as singlet‐fission spectral conversion and tandem architectures,
Kangmin Lee
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Thermal 3D CFD Simulation with Active Transparent Façade in Buildings [PDF]
, 2018 In recent years active façades have acquired greater importance given their capacity to improve the energy efficiency of buildings. One such type is the so-called Active Transparent Façade (ATF). A 3D numerical model based on computational fluid dynamics
Fernández Nieto, Enrique Domingo +4 more
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Integrated Dynamic Facade Control with an Agent-based Architecture for Commercial Buildings [PDF]
, 2020 Dynamic façades have significant technical potential to minimize heating, cooling, and lighting energy use and peak electric demand in the perimeter zone of commercial buildings, but the performance of these systems is reliant on being able to balance ...
Blum, David H +3 more
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An Autonomous Large Language Model‐Agent Framework for Transparent and Local Time Series Forecasting
Advanced Intelligent Discovery, EarlyView.Architecture of the proposed large language model (LLM)‐based agent framework for autonomous time series forecasting in thermal power generation systems. The framework operates through a vertical pipeline initiated by natural language queries from users, which are processed by the LLM Agent Core powered by Llama.cpp and a ReAct loop with persistent ...
William Gouvêa Buratto +5 more
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Journal of Facade Design and Engineering, 2015 Building facade has a significant impact on the environmental and economic performance of buildings and projects. The specification of their elements at the early design phase depends on numerous technical, environmental and economic factors and ...
Mohamad Kassema, Donald Mitchell
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Rain infiltration mechanisms in ventilated facades: literature review, case studies, understanding common practice flaws [PDF]
, 2015 Ventilated facades are contemporary construction systems, which present a number of benefits in comparison to a traditional facade (unventilated or vented air cavity).
Arce Recatala, Maria +2 more
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Smart Bioinspired Material‐Based Actuators: Current Challenges and Prospects
Advanced Intelligent Systems, Volume 7, Issue 3, March 2025.This work gathers, in a review style, an extensive and comprehensive literature overview on the development of autonomous actuators based on synthetic materials, bringing together valuable knowledge from several studies. Furthermore, the article identifies the fundamental principles of actuation mechanisms and defines key parameters to address the size
Alejandro Palacios +4 more
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Exploring microalgae applications in building facades: a bibliometric perspective
Revista Hábitat SustentableMicroalgae are microorganisms that offer promising potential for application in sustainable environmental technologies due to their ability to photosynthesize, produce biomass, absorb carbon dioxide, and treat wastewater.
Aslı Taş, Güneş Mutlu-Avinç
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Spaces of observation and obscurity: cinematic prisons of light and dark [PDF]
, 2009 In The Eye of Power, Foucault delineated the key concerns surrounding hospital architecture in the latter half of the eighteenth century as being the ‘visibility of bodies, individuals and things'.
Fiddler, Michael
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