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The communication process

Christian Roecker, Maria Cristina Munari Probst

In order to stimulate an increased use of solar in energy conscious building design, the Task 41 participants have developed a Communication Guideline as a tool to support architects in their communication process with especially clients, authorities and c ...

Hagen, Rolf and Bruun Jorgensen, Olav for International Energy Agency Solar Heating and Cooling Programme2012

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

Designing with Daylight: Integrating performance within the human and environmental contexts

Marilyne Andersen

In the contemporary context of building for sustainability, architects are faced with a major challenge of reconciling a vast range of human requirements within a successful design that has to answer ecological constraints. Within the overall framework of ...

2012

Social Inclusion: A Multidisciplinary Design Approach

This article shows the design of an assistive product and a proposal of a business plan for persons with motor disability in lower-limbs, in accordance with the guidelines for social inclusion of the World Health Organization (2001). The design project wit ...

2012

The levels-of-approximation approach in MC 2010: application to punching shear provisions

Aurelio Muttoni, Miguel Fernández Ruiz

In order to address how new knowledge influences design expressions, design codes have in most cases become significantly more complex over the last decades. However, this tendency is leading to codes that are too complicated for preliminary design but sti ...

Structural Concrete2012

A daylighting knowledge-base for performance-driven facade design exploration

Marilyne Andersen

Heuristics and simple design guides are important tools for designers who wish to incorporate daylighting into the early design process. This paper describes a simulation-based method for generating simple rules for facade design, based on specific climate ...

2011

Machine Tool Use Phase

Ioan Oliver Avram

This thesis is motivated from the fundamental decision problem in today's manufacturing industry which could be summarized as one simple question: how is it possible to achieve economic growth by taking advantage of the latest technologies while protecting ...

EPFL2010

An Outlook on Design Technologies for Future Integrated Systems

Giovanni De Micheli

The economic and social demand for ubiquitous and multifaceted electronic systems-in combination with the unprecedented opportunities provided by the integration of various manufacturing technologies-is paving the way to a new class of heterogeneous integr ...

2009

Design for a Sustainable Future

Marilyne Andersen

Organized around a holistic design approach, this class examined the synthetic relationship between performance and design in addressing issues of sustainability in the built environment. The workshop introduced the theories behind a resource-efficient bui ...

Lulu.com2009

Urbanisation, City Design and tue Urban Model in West Africa

Jérôme Chenal

Linkage between the urbanisation process, urban models, social practices, mutations of the public space, and management and planning approaches of cities in the South was studied. Critical understanding of traditional urban instruments and ways to create i ...

2008

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