Posts tagged ‘sustainble environmental design’
Environmental retrofittings of office buildings in Sao Paulo
April 28th, 2010
Guest author: Ricardo Messano
The purpose of this dissertation is to demonstrate that office buildings in Sao Paulo have the potential to decrease their overall energy consumption by reducing their dependence on artificial sources through environmental strategies. Analysing Sao Paulo´s office building evolution it was possible to identify that the buildings from the 1960s and 1970s, located in Paulista [...]
Tags: architectural association, brazil, energy performance, environmental retrofitting, office building, refurbishment, research, sustainble environmental design
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Environmental Design & Morphogenesis
April 28th, 2010
Guest author: Viktoria A Lytra
Even if the potential of environmental design to cause morphogenesis has been recognised widely, it remains so far unexplored because its main principles – related to building’s physics – are open to many architectural translations. Up to now the environmental input in architecture is limited in most of the cases to passive optimised strategies applied [...]
Tags: architectural association, daylighting, england, form generation, london, research, sustainble environmental design, temperate climate
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Accommodating change – Housing in London
February 23rd, 2010
Guest author: Alexandra Theodorou
Over the last few years, population growth in London has created an imperative need for increasing housing supply. At the same time household structure is radically changing with one-person dwellings accounting for a large proportion of the demand. Terraced housing has provided satisfactory living conditions for many years and still defines much of the city’s [...]
Tags: architectural association, design, england, housing, research, sustainble environmental design, temperate climate
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Learning Environments in informal settlements
February 23rd, 2010
Guest author: Olga Maria Conto Sterling
The aim of this project is to explore possibilities for learning environments in the informal settlements on the outskirts of Bogota, Colombia. This topic emerged from the growing necessity to provide schools in the poorest municipalities surrounding the Colombian capital where hundreds of internally displaced people arrive every month. The initial research focused on the [...]
Tags: architectural association, cold climate, colombia, design, learning environments, research, sustainble environmental design
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Thermal performance of typical classrooms in South Korea
February 21st, 2010
Guest author: Yun Ho Chung
This dissertation project starts from the question why many school buildings in South Korea are similar. Even though it is a very small country, it has different climate conditions in different parts of the country. However, due to the fact that demand for educational facilities was dramatically increased by the development of the Korean economy [...]
Tags: architectural association, education, research, retrofitting, south korea, sustainble environmental design
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Evaluation of retrofitting methods: Conversion of the ‘Spierer’ tobacco warehouse in Volos, Greece
February 20th, 2010
Guest author: Polytimi Ilia
This project investigates the typology of Greek typical tobacco warehouses and the ways in which this typology may be modified during an environmental retrofitting conversion. These types of traditional buildings are characterised as a strong component of local historical legacy, therefore they are typically listed as cultural heritage sites and are usually protected. This governmental [...]
Tags: architectural association, greece, mediterranean climate, research, retrofitting, sustainble environmental design, tobacco warehouses
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Urban social housing in Colombia
February 18th, 2010
Guest author: Gilda Riveros
In Colombia, even though the construction of social housing has increased there is still a high demand that has not been fully covered. In addition, the majority of current schemes lack in comfort and consideration of local climatic conditions. This project focuses on the design of affordable urban housing units. The introduction of climate-responsive strategies [...]
Tags: architectural association, cold climate, colombia, design, housing, research, sustainble environmental design
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Courtyard housing typology in an urban area
February 18th, 2010
Guest author: Alberto Moletto
Since, then the high proportion of citizens in the suburbs has continued to grow: by 2008, the ratio of suburban to urban dwellers had reached 2:1. The fundamental reasons for this migration have been identified as a lack of green areas in the city, and the absence of housing projects with private courtyards. However, even [...]
Tags: architectural association, chile, housing, mediterranean climate, outdoor comfort, research, sustainble environmental design
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Urban Metaphors | Exploring the urban roofscape of Athens
February 17th, 2010
Guest author: Katerina Pantazi
The focus of this dissertation is the urban roofscape of Athens and aims to identify the variables, as well as to explore the potentials that are associated with the sustainable regeneration of this particular layer of the urban configuration. The investigation of the prevailing types and spatial characteristics of this layer will identify the variables [...]
Tags: architectural association, design, greece, mediterranean climate, outdoor comfort, research, sustainble environmental design, urban space
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Designing outdoors: Ephemeral and adaptive book shelters in Thessaloniki, Greece
February 17th, 2010
Guest author: Kalliopi Limpou
Most outdoors design applications devoid any sustainable and environmental quality. They are either characterless structures driven by low budgets or fancy installations intending to solely excite the pleasure of the senses, undermining in both cases the parameter of human comfort. As nowadays more and more eminent architects are being engaged to relevant projects, that exceptionally [...]
Tags: architectural association, greece, mediterranean climate, outdoor comfort, research, sustainble environmental design
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