Publications by Nils Christian Schüler

Designing a District Energy Infrastructure-a Case-Study in Lisbon

François Maréchal, Nils Christian Schüler, Sébastien Cajot

The paper describes a case study on the design of district energy infrastructure for the green-field project of the Vale de Santo Antonio (Lisbon, Portugal). The methodology is based on a novel framework built on the sequential integration of three softwar ...

FRONTIERS MEDIA SA2022

Interactive Optimization With Parallel Coordinates: Exploring Multidimensional Spaces for Decision Support

François Maréchal, Nils Christian Schüler, Sébastien Cajot

Interactive optimization methods are particularly suited for letting human decision makers learn about a problem, while a computer learns about their preferences to generate relevant solutions. For interactive optimization methods to be adopted in practice ...

2019

Linking interactive optimization for urban planning with a semantic 3D city model

François Maréchal, Sébastien Cajot, Nils Christian Schüler

The cities in which we live are constantly evolving. The active management of this evolution is referred to as urban planning. The according development process could go in many directions resulting in a large number of potential future scenarios of a city ...

Copernicus GmbH2018

The optimum is not the goal: Capturing the decision space for the planning of new neighborhoods

François Maréchal, Jessen Page, Nils Christian Schüler, Sébastien Cajot

This article presents the development and application of a methodology that employs optimization not to seek the single or few optimal plan(s) but to provide planners with a systematic overview of their decision space. As urban development projects are not ...

2018

Computational methods for multi-criteria decision support in urban planning

Nils Christian Schüler

Urbanization and climate change induce many challenges for todayâ s cities. These challenges have to be faced by urban planners during complex planning processes that involve many stakeholders. Interactive computational approaches can provide assistance d ...

EPFL2018

Defining density and land uses under energy performance targets at the early stage of urban planning processes

François Maréchal, Shanshan Hsieh, Nils Christian Schüler, Arno Schlueter

The energy demand of cities is highly influenced by urban planning parameters such as urban density and land use. These parameters are mostly determined during early stages of planning. The effects of these parameters on the energy performance of districts ...

Elsevier2017

Interactive optimization for the planning of urban systems

François Maréchal, Sébastien Cajot, Nils Christian Schüler

This paper introduces urb.io, an interactive optimization framework for early-stage urban planning. It allows urban planners to generate and explore many alternative urban configurations, while focusing their attention on the most promising ones. First, ad ...

Elsevier2017

Establishing links for the planning of sustainable districts

François Maréchal, Jessen Page, Sébastien Cajot, Nils Christian Schüler

Cities can play a key role in mitigating climate change impacts, as they represent two thirds of the world’s energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions. This paper presents a model-based approach to support cities in the challenge of including energy ...

vdf Hochschulverlag AG2016

A solid thermal storage model for the optimization of buildings operation strategy

François Maréchal, Samira Fazlollahi, Nils Christian Schüler

With an increasing fluctuation of energy supply due to the integration of renewable energy utilities peak- shaving becomes more and more important. Storage systems are a considerable option for this purpose. For the heat supply in cities the buildings them ...

2015

Heat demand estimation for different building types at regional scale considering building parameters and urban topography

François Maréchal, Jessen Page, Alexandre Suzanne Jean-Marie Bertrand, Nils Christian Schüler

This study aims towards an improved estimation of annual heat demand of the building stock for an entire region. This requires the holistic representation of aspects influencing the heat demand of buildings, namely their geometry, fabric, users and surroun ...

Elsevier2015