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Shaping light to influence occupants’ experience of space: a kinetic shading system with composite materials

Marilyne Andersen, Anastasios Vassilopoulos, Jan Wienold, Joëlle Baehr-Bruyère, Kynthia Chamilothori

Adaptive kinetic façades are systems capable of modifying their shape to optimize their behavior regarding real time outdoor and indoor conditions. They are typically evaluated based on quantifiable physical parameters such as illuminance levels, with litt ...

IOP Publishing2019

Daylight and temperature in buildings: interaction effects on human responses

Giorgia Chinazzo

Over the past years, increasing efforts have been devoted to understand how people perceive the indoor environment with the goal to improve building design and operation. Studies have separately addressed the effects of the four main aspects that influence ...

EPFL2019

Application of the planning support system URBio

Nils Christian Schüler, Sébastien Cajot

The planning support system URBio is demonstrated via two case studies. Both case studies are located in the canton of Geneva. The first case study is a greenfield planning project, where the goal is to build a new district on former agricultural land. The ...

Academic Press2019

Building relationships: Using embedded plug load sensors for occupant network inference

Andrew James Sonta

Understanding the underlying structure of building occupant dynamics is crucial to improving the effectiveness and energy efficiency of commercial buildings, as occupants fundamentally drive building design and operation. In current practice, we largely ac ...

2019

Design and Validation of a Compact Embedded Photometric Device for Real-time Daylighting Computing in Office Buildings

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Jérôme Henri Kämpf, Yujie Wu

Studies have shown that the exposure to daylight can have substantial visual/non-visual benefits for building occupants. To optimise daylighting provision while maintaining a comfortable visual environment, daylighting control systems have been investigate ...

2019

Occupant health & well-being in green buildings: Trends and Future Directions

Dusan Licina

Expectations for high performance green buildings have been evolving over the last four decades. Green certification systems define, recognize, and demonstrate leadership in addressing building problems related to people and the environment. These systems ...

2019

Daylight affects human thermal perception

Marilyne Andersen, Jan Wienold, Giorgia Chinazzo

Understanding the factors that affect human thermal responses is necessary to properly design and operate low-energy buildings. It has been suggested that factors not related to the thermal environment can affect thermal responses of occupants, but these f ...

2019

Building energy certification versus user satisfaction with the indoor environment: Findings from a multi-site post-occupancy evaluation (POE) in Switzerland

Marilyne Andersen, Luisa Pastore

Voluntary green-rating systems exist in different forms worldwide to certify the sustainability of residential and commercial buildings and help national policies promote energy-efficient design practices. Despite the general assumption that sustainable bu ...

2019

Daylight in buildings

Jan Wienold

Daylight should be a significant source of illumination for all spaces with daylight opening(s). Daylight is strongly favoured by building occupants as a way to adequately illuminate the indoor surfaces, and to save energy for electrical lighting. Daylight ...

CEN2018

Life cycle efficiency ratio: a new performance indicator for a life cycle driven approach to evaluate the potential of ventilative cooling and thermal inertia

Flourentzos Flourentzou, Thomas Bernard Paul Jusselme, Arianna Brambilla, Jérôme Philippe Bonvin

Building envelope design has gained importance as a means to reduce heating and cooling demand related to a building’s operational phase. However, in high internal load buildings, such as offices, internal gains can easily lead to overheating. Thermal iner ...

2018

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