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Pensée globale, construction locale: stratégies d’adaptation d’une culture du bâti individualiste aux contraintes communautaires de la vie contemporaine et du développement durable

Une île perdue dans le nord de l’océan Atlantique. Grindavik, un petit village situé dans le sud-ouest de cette île, sur la péninsule du Reykjanes. Un climat marqué par des vents forts, une météo imprévisible et une énergie géothermique présente dans tout ...

2021

Detecting trends and further development potential of contemporary façade design for workspaces

Marilyne Andersen, Luisa Pastore

Façade design is claimed to fulfil a number of requirements in workplaces, ranging from privacy to safety and from comfort to aesthetics. For future R&D efforts in façade design, identifying the key drivers that should shape contemporary facades in office ...

2019

Optimal Planning of Distributed Energy Storage Systems in Active Distribution Networks Embedding Grid Reconfiguration

Mario Paolone, Mostafa Nick

In this paper we present a procedure for the optimal siting and sizing of Energy Storage Systems (ESSs) owned, and directly controlled by network operators of Active Distribution Networks (ADNs). The peculiarity of the proposed planning procedure consists ...

2018

Daylight in the built environment

Marilyne Andersen, Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Andreas Schueler, Jan Wienold, Silvia Coccolo, Magali Bodart

Relatively recent cultural and technological changes, particularly in Westernized societies, have led to habitat and lifestyle shifts that have gradually estranged us from daylight. Although human beings are resilient and appear able to cope with extreme v ...

Science/AAAS2017

EHR: a Sensing Technology Readiness Model for Lifestyle Changes

Pearl Pu Faltings, Yu Chen, Danni Le, Zerrin Yumak

Interest in developing user-centered sensing technologies for personalized behavior change has gained significant momentum. However, very little research work has been done to understand issues relative to user readiness and adoption of the sensing technol ...

Springer2017

Durabilité des infrastructures temporaires à vocation événementielle

Loïc Vivien Fumeaux

Réalisé au sein du Laboratoire d’architecture et technologies durables (LAST) de l’Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), la présente recherche doctorale a porté sur l’intégration des critères de durabilité dans le processus de conception d’infra ...

2016

Science and technology roadmap for graphene, related two-dimensional crystals, and hybrid systems

Andras Kis, Zhe Sun

We present the science and technology roadmap for graphene, related two-dimensional crystals, and hybrid systems, targeting an evolution in technology, that might lead to impacts and benefits reaching into most areas of society. This roadmap was developed ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2015

Technologies for Development. What is Essential?

Jean-Claude Bolay, Eileen Hazboun, Silvia Hostettler

Technological innovation is vital for finding solutions to key challenges the world is facing. Climate change, pollution, disease, rising inequalities, and chronic poverty all need to be addressed. We need renewable energy sources, efficient transport netw ...

Springer2015

Architecture Without Content 9: The Difficult Double

Dries Rodet, Giovanni Alessandro Piovene Porto Godi, Kersten Geers, Andrea Zanderigo, Jelena Pancevac

The culture of architecture is based on misunderstandings and tweaked stories. Bad reading, simplification and superficial interpretation of something far away, both in space and time, has been the engine of quite many of the avant-gardes of the recent pas ...

2014

Bond Graph Model Representation of a New Reciprocating Finned Air Compressor

Alfred Rufer, Mahbod Heidari

A new finned reciprocating air compressor model is developed recently for compressed air energy storage. First the mechanism of operation of the new compressor is described. The complexity of the design encouraged us to develop the model based on the bond ...

2014

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