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Rethinking the house form in poor areas

Joana Rosa Ferreira Leite dos Santos Aleixo

Studying housing requires a multidisciplinary approach in order to come up with comprehensive solutions for physical, social and cultural needs. This thesis intends to bring those needs into the process of creating the house, by proposing a methodology to ...

EPFL2016

Photovoltaics integration in the Solar Decathlon pavilion : Assessing the implication of transparent BIPV with DSC technology on the indoor comfort and energy performance

Hélène Yvette Claudine Monari, Guillaume Charles Johan Rouff soit Rueff

Building-integrated photovoltaics (BIPV) are photovoltaic devices that are meant to replace conventional building components normally used in the building envelope. Different BIPV options are nowadays available on the market. Despite the lower nominal effi ...

2016

UNIVERSITY RESIDENCES AS A TOOL FOR PUBLIC HOUSING REGENERATION

Lorenzo Diana

Nowadays in Rome public housing suburbs face several critical issues, both physical and social: buildings obsolescence, state of neglect of open spaces, inhabitant’s sense of segregation and lack of social inclusion. These critical issues cause a huge redu ...

Centro Interuniversitario di Ricerca TESIS, Università degli Studi di Firenze2016

Swisswoodhouse, innovative experimentation in sustainable modular housing : from interdisciplinary research to post-occupancy monitoring

The Swisswoodhouse concept is the outcome of a number of studies on issues related to urban densification, structural changes in households, housing adaptability and the environmental challenges of sustainable construction. The building design is more spec ...

2015

Swisswoodhouse, innovative experimentation in sustainable modular housing : from interdisciplinary research to post-occupancy monitoring

2015

Integral Mechanical Attachment for Timber Folded Plate Structures

Christopher Werner Matthias Robeller

Timber folded plate Structures combine the advantages of timber as a construction material, such as its carbon-dioxide storage, low energy production and favorable weight-to-strength ratio, with the structural efficiency and elegance of folded surface stru ...

EPFL2015

Timber Folded Plate Structures – Folded Form Analysis

Yves Weinand, Christopher Werner Matthias Robeller, Andrea Stitic

This paper analyses the potential of different possible folded form topologies for generating timber folded surface structures. The main advantage of such structures lies primarily in the realm of ecology and sustainability. By offering an integral way of ...

2015

Experimental testing and simulation of bolted beam-column connections having thick extended endplates and multiple bolts per row

Alain Nussbaumer, Gary Scott Prinz, Luís Costa Borges, Shyam Khadka

Retrofit of existing steel buildings often requires strengthening of the connection regions. One common connection, the bolted beam-column connection, is often strengthened in design using stiffened extended endplates, or with continuity plates welded betw ...

Elsevier2014

Get wired! Potentialités d'un réseau câblé pour le Valais central

Jérôme Rudaz, Renaud Rudaz

Les Alpes. Un territoire difficile qui exige adaptation, inventivité et conditionne fortement les activités de ses occupants. La mobilité, notamment, a dû se conformer à ces conditions. Face à l'empreinte toujours plus forte de la pendularité et du tourism ...

2012

Swisswoodhouse, an innovative concept for sustainable modular housing

The Swisswoodhouse concept was born out of the crossover of several lines of thought concerning issues of urban densification, flexibility of housing, adaptability of buildings and sustainable construction. The approach aims to provide an alternative to th ...

2012

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