Quality criteria for multi-domain studies in the indoor environment: Critical review towards research guidelines and recommendations

The perception, physiology, behavior, and performance of building occupants are influenced by multi-domain exposures: the simultaneous presence of multiple environmental stimuli, i.e., visual, thermal, acoustic, and air quality. Despite being extensive, the literature on multi-domain exposures presents heterogeneous methodological approaches...

Test rooms to study human comfort in buildings: A review of controlled experiments and facilities

Occupants’ comfort perception affects building energy consumptions. To improve the understanding of human comfort, which is crucial to reduce energy demand, laboratory experiments with humans in controlled environments (test rooms) are fundamental, but their potential also depends on the characteristic of each research facility. Nowadays, there...

Vernacularability - Vernacular sustainability

This "designers' manual" is made during the TIDO-course AR0533 Innovation & Sustainability. Vernacular or regional architecture is in contrast with the modern buildings that tend to have an excessive degree of uniformity, forgetting those special construction features different from place to place, which are connected to particular surroundings....