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Building Duration / El Portico de los Huespedes

Patricia Guaita, Raffael Baur, Sony Devabhaktuni

El Portico de los Huéspedes is a pedagogical, design-research project that tests the possibility of an open-ended architecture, where duration links between past and future. It is a work of architecture as becoming: ‘work’ meaning the structure, rhythms an ...

Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture2019

A city-scale roof shape classification using machine learning for solar energy applications

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Dan Assouline, Nahid Mohajeri Pour Rayeni, Bérénice Guiboud, Andreas Bill

Solar energy deployment through PV installations in urban areas depends strongly on the shape, size, and orientation of available roofs. Here we use a machine learning approach, Support Vector Machine (SVM) classification, to classify 10,085 building roofs ...

2018

Assessing visibility in multi-scale urban planning: A contribution to a method enhancing social acceptability of solar energy in cities

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

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

Exploring the application domain of adaptive structures

Gennaro Senatore

Using a previously developed design methodology it was shown that optimal material distribution in combination with strategic integration of the actuation system lead to significant whole-life energy savings when the design is governed by rare but strong l ...

2018

3D model discretization in assessing urban solar potential: the effect of grid spacing on predicted solar irradiation

Marilyne Andersen, Giuseppe Peronato

The increasing interest in solar energy production in urban areas requires an accurate simulation of solar irradiation on building surfaces, including vertical surfaces. However, solar potential analyses are usually conducted on 2.5D models, which are limi ...

2018

Optimization Formulations for the Design of Low Embodied Energy Structures Made from Reused Elements

Corentin Jean Dominique Fivet, Gennaro Senatore, Jan Friedrich Georg Brütting

The building sector is one of the major contributors to material resource consumption, greenhouse gas emission and waste production. Load-bearing systems have a particularly large environmental impact because of their material and energy intensive manufact ...

Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature2018

STRUCTURAL FORM-FINDING FROM RECLAIMED BAR ELEMENTS

Joseph Jean François Desruelle

This thesis applies structural optimization techniques to develop a general methodology for design from reuse. A thorough case study serves as proof-of-concept. Reusing elements from dismantled structures appears as a promising, yet little explored approac ...

2018

Assessing the photovoltaic potential of flat roofs: Insights from the analysis of optimised array arrangements

Marilyne Andersen, Sergi Aguacil Moreno, Giuseppe Peronato, Adrien Legrain

PV installations on flat roofs offer a wide range of design options, which are usually neglected in urban-scale assessments as these typically assume horizontal or other fixed arrangements. In this study, we analyse the influence of common design parameter ...

Edward Ng, Square Fong, Chao Ren2018

Concrete and Metallic Structures Activation Calculations

Harrison Gavotto

The objective of this report is to detail the work done during the TP IV project at EPFL. The idea is to look into the activation of concrete and metallic structures of the EPFL’s nuclear reactor: CROCUS. This study has been done by two ways: MCNP computat ...

2017

Ternary semitransparent organic solar cells with a laminated top electrode

Frank Nüesch, Roland Hany, Jakob Heier, Lei Wang, Surendra Babu Anantharaman, Paolo Testa

Tinted and colour-neutral semitransparent organic photovoltaic elements are of interest for building-integrated applications in windows, on glass roofs or on facades. We demonstrate a semitransparent organic photovoltaic cell with a dry-laminated top elect ...

Taylor & Francis Ltd2017

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