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Discomfort glare from daylight: Influence of transmitted color and the eye's macular pigment
Marilyne Andersen, Jan Wienold, Sneha Jain
Designing architectural façades that allow sufficient daylight to create visually comfortable and pleasant envi- ronments is a challenging aspect of building design as it requires to account for visual comfort and discomfort glare risks, and understand the ...
2023Sketches
I draw by hand, but I don’t like free-hand sketching. Of course, when designing, it is inevitable to make sketches, especially when collaborating with someone. A quick sketch remains the most efficient way to communicate to others early ideas or observatio ...
2023In the Quest for Meaning: Revisiting Modernism’s debate around non-pedigreed architecture
In architectural historiography, it is widely accepted that in the aftermath of WWII, Modern Architecture found itself in the trouble of redefining its quest, its meaning, and its purpose; a crisis of the Modern before the Post-Modern. Thus, in this partic ...
2022Digital twins for post-earthquake damage assessment of free-standing buildings including damage information
Katrin Beyer, Radhakrishna Achanta, Bryan German Pantoja Rosero, Amir Rezaie
We present a pipeline for the automatic generation of digital twins of free-standing buildings for damage assessment. Our method takes multiple view images of the target building as input and processes them to produce a 3D model in levels of detail (LOD) f ...
2022A Global Building Occupant Behavior Database
Andrew James Sonta, Zhe Wang, Sanjay Kumar, Xin Zhou, Yanchen Liu
This paper introduces a database of 34 field-measured building occupant behavior datasets collected from 15 countries and 39 institutions across 10 climatic zones covering various building types in both commercial and residential sectors. This is a compreh ...
2022Learning from Failures: Reflections on the Role of Project Design and Design Management in the Procurement of Non-Standard Buildings
The opening of the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao in 1997 heralded the beginning of an era in world architecture defined by iconic buildings underpinned by mediatic exposure and the belief in the power of design to leverage urban conditions. Today, a conspic ...
2021Experimental techniques for suspended structures: the construction of Chauderon hanging building in Lausanne (R. Willomet, P. Dumartheray and J. Prouvé, 1970-1974)
The lecture, starting from a synoptic analysis of the European situation and Belgian realizations of suspended buildings in the years 1960 - 1980, will mainly deal with the construction history of the Administrative Buildings of the Place Chauderon in Laus ...
2021A performance-driven simulation workflow for PV integration into the design process: application on an innovative building project in Switzerland
In the construction sector, the integration of active elements functioning both as building envelope material and on-site electricity generator is identified as a key measure to achieve the 2050 targets and carbon neutrality (Aguacil Moreno, 2019; Aguacil ...
2021Architecture / Philosophy: how, why, and what the questions seek in three case-studies from the late 20th century
André Patrão Neves De Frias Martins
Architecture and philosophy are no strangers to one another. In philosophical writings, architecture appears referred to, spoken of, described, defined, categorized, and figuratively used. In architectural discourse, by theoreticians and practitioners alik ...
EPFL2020Design and construction of a railway bridge in reinforced UHPFRC – World’s first UHPFRC bridge on a main railway line
On November 11, 2017, the world's first railway bridge built in reinforced UHPFRC on a main railway line lane was put in service. The building project of the Swiss Federal Railways was realized within a replacement project of a double‐lane railway bridge o ...
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