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Living labs are open innovation ecosystems in real-life environments using iterative feedback processes throughout a lifecycle approach of an innovation to create sustainable impact. They focus on co-creation, rapid prototyping & testing and scaling-up innovations & businesses, providing (different types of) joint-value to the involved stakeholders. In this context, living labs operate as intermediaries/orchestrators among citizens, research organisations, companies and government agencies/levels. Background The term "living lab" has emerged in parallel from the ambient intelligence (AmI) research communities context and from the discussion on experience and application research (EAR). The emergence of the term is based on the concept of user experience and ambient intelligence. William J. Mitchell, Kent Larson, and Alex (Sandy) Pentland at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are credited with first exploring the concept of a Living Laboratory. They argued that a livi

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This course aims to engage students into multidisciplinary collaboration to tackle real world problems with a human centered approach. It will also provide knowledge about the role of design in innovation.

This course is a joint initiative between the School of Engineering and the College of Management to encourage and promote entrepreneurship and management skills, engineering design, hands-on experience, teamwork, and awareness of social and ethical implications in engineering and management.

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Graphical representation of the smart living building research program

Arianna Brambilla, Vanda Carla Costa Grisel, Stefano Cozza, Endrit Hoxha, Thomas Bernard Paul Jusselme, Cédric Liardet, Amélie Zizou Gisèle Renée Poncety, Didier Albert Simon Vuarnoz

The smart living lab project is a pioneering, inter-disciplinary and inter-institutional platform that combines several fields of research related to construction technologies. It aims to be a center of national scope, recognized on an international level and involving a variety of players and institutions. One of the smart living lab’s projects is the design and construction of its own building, which will be at the cutting edge of research and best practice on sustainability. Before starting the construction of the smart living building, a preliminary research called smart living building (SLB) research program has been set up, of which this poster gives a graphical representation, meant to find a common language between the diverse disciplines involved in the subject.

2016

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The smart living lab project is a pioneering, inter-disciplinary and inter-institutional platform that combines several fields of research related to construction technologies. It aims to be a center of national scope, recognized on an international level and involving a variety of players and institutions. One of the smart living lab’s projects is the design and construction of its own building, which will be at the cutting edge of research and best practice on sustainability. Before starting the construction of the smart living building, a preliminary research called smart living building (SLB) research program has been set up, of which this report is the executive summary. Its objective is to sum up the research findings discovered in this frame, and to outline the way they can be used as fundamental requirements into the future operational design brief.

2017

Technical and architectural energy strategies for the smart living lab, a sustainable building with reliable environmental objectives

Stefano Cozza

Currently, energy efficiency in buildings is a primary objective of energy policy at regional, national and international levels. On a local scale, this trend has been detected also in Switzerland, where almost 40% of energy consumption has been assumed to be used for heating, ventilation and lighting in buildings. The smart living lab project is born under this scenario, aiming to be a building icon and a sustainability example. Via reducing environmental impacts and its footprint on the local ecosystem, the project intends to reach certain authoritative objectives, like the ones given by the 2000 Watt-Society. The smart living lab is a research centre on future built environment in Fribourg, Switzerland. It accommodates interdisciplinary and inter-institutional research groups and provides infrastructures for experiment on developing innovative concepts and technologies related to inhabitation and work environment. The purpose of this thesis is to identify the main technical and architectural macroparameters and their contribution to energy consumption. The latter in the smart living building is calculated in the aspects of both quantity [kWh/m2] and quality [kg CO2/kWh]. Global sensitivity analysis (SA) was selected as the method to demonstrate the contribution of certain key design parameters to the building energy consumption and their correlations along with the changes of variables. Several energy simulations have been conducted with the variation of each design parameter independently. Finally, due to the elaborated cases, the SA was completed with the identification of the predominant factors on the main energy outputs e.g. primary energy.

2015