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Criteria and policies to master the visual impact of solar systems in urban environments: The LESO-QSV method

Christian Roecker, Maria Cristina Munari Probst

Increased use of solar collectors in buildings is necessary but poses major challenges in existing built environ ments, especially where architectural quality is an issue. The large size of solar systems at the building scale requires careful planning, as ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2019

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Urban areas are facing a growing deployment of solar photovoltaic and thermal technologies on building envelopes, both on roofs and on façades. An effective solar energy planning process considers social acceptance, in relation to the landscape alteration ...

2018

Promoting Solar Energy While Preserving Urban Context

Christian Roecker, Maria Cristina Munari Probst

New energy regulations, together with mandatory solar fractions for electricity and Domestic Hot Water are introducing new materialities and geometries in buildings, resulting in new forms of architectural expression that are slowly modifying our city land ...

IEA SHC2017

Illustrative Prospective of Solar Energy in Urban Planning: Collection of International Case Studies

Christian Roecker, Maria Cristina Munari Probst, Émilie Nault, Giuseppe Peronato, Pietro Florio

This reports presents a collection of 34 case studies on solar energy in urban planning, addressing how the planning process has been developed, how the stakeholders have been involved, which instruments have been applied, which energy technology and envir ...

IEA SHC Task 512017

Visibility of Building Exposed Surfaces for the Potential Application of Solar Panels: A Photometric Model

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Christian Roecker, Maria Cristina Munari Probst, Pietro Florio

Urban areas are facing a growing deployment of solar technologies on the built exposed surfaces such as roofs and façades. This transformation often occurs without consideration of the needed architectural quality, which depends on the context sensitivity ...

F. Biljecki and V. Tourre2016

This document is conceived for architects and intended to be as clear and practical as possible. It summarizes the knowledge needed to integrate active solar technologies (solar thermal and photovoltaics) into buildings, handling at the same time architect ...

Munari Probst, Maria Cristina and Roecker, Christian for International Energy Agency Solar Heating and Cooling Programme2013

This document is addressed to manufacturers of solar thermal systems. It describes the main criteria for a successful integration of solar thermal systems in buildings and proposes a methodology for the design of systems specifically conceived for building ...

Munari Probst, Maria Cristina and Roecker, Christian for International Energy Agency Solar Heating and Cooling Programme2013

Innovative Solution for Building Integrated Photovoltaics

Christophe Ballif, Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Yves Leterrier, Andreas Schueler, Christian Roecker, Hengyu Li, Laure-Emmanuelle Perret Aebi, Martin Joly, Valentin Chapuis, Patrick Heinstein, Christian Frédéric Schlumpf

Among the main challenges of our century, the climate change and the need of diversification of the energy sources are of most importance. Renewable energies undoubtedly have an important role to play, photovoltaic (PV) electricity being especially well su ...

EPFL Solar Energy and Building Physics Laboratory (LESO-PB)2013

This document is addressed to manufacturers of photovoltaic systems. It describes the main criteria for a successful integration of PV systems in buildings and proposes a methodology for the design of systems specifically conceived for building integration ...

Farkas, Klaudia pour International Energy Agency Solar Heating and Cooling Programme2013

Product developments and dissemination activities

Christian Roecker, Maria Cristina Munari Probst, Alessia Giovanardi

This document shows product developments and dissemination activities carried out within the framework of, or in close relation to, the project IEA SHC Task 41; Solar Energy and Architecture. This Task gathered researchers and practicing architects from 14 ...

Edited by Lobaccaro, Gabriele and Wall, Maria for International Energy Agency Solar Heating and Cooling Programme Task 412012