Publications de Maria Cristina Munari Probst

A cross-country perspective on solar energy in urban planning: Lessons learned from international case studies

This work, framed in the IEA SHC Task 51 "Solar Energy in Urban Planning", presents an illustrative perspective of solar energy in urban planning through the analysis of 34 international case studies conducted in 10 countries. The aim here is to examine ch ...

2019

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 ...

2019

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, Pietro Florio, Josef Andreas Schuler

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

Visual prominence vs architectural sensitivity of solar applications in existing urban areas: an experience with web-shared photos

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Andreas Schueler, Maria Cristina Munari Probst, Pietro Florio

Architectural integration of solar technologies in the built environment is a challenge: one of the key tasks is the identification of homogeneous zones of intervention as a function of the solar energy potential and “criticity”, a combination of the socio ...

Elsevier2017

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

State-of-the-Art of Education on Solar Energy in Urban Planning

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

This report focuses on education in order to strengthen the knowledge and competence of relevant stakeholders in solar energy in urban planning. The core of this study is to create substantial links between research and education as well as between researc ...

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

Innovative solar products for architectural integration: a joint Task 41 and Task 51 IEA website

Christian Roecker, Maria Cristina Munari Probst

2014

Urban acceptability of building integrated solar systems: LESO-QSV approach

Christian Roecker, Maria Cristina Munari Probst

The concern for sustainable development issues together with the new EU promotion policies are finally leading to a widespread use of Photovoltaic and Solar Thermal systems in buildings. This upcoming reality is opening a new debate on the urban/architectu ...

Universität Kassel2011

Building envelope and solar energy optimization: a new “wizard” for architects

Christian Roecker, Maria Cristina Munari Probst, Marja Edelman

When designing a project, architects are facing more and more constraints on the building’s energy efficiency. Tougher values on insulation and energy consumption are now often combined with compulsory implementation of active solar systems - photovoltaics ...

Université Catholique de Louvain-la-Neuve2011