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Balraj, M. (author)
This "designers' manual" is made during the TIDO-course AR0531 Smart & Bioclimatic Design. In the present day's context, consumerism has rapidly increased and it creates an enormous amount of packaging waste. Furthermore, the building industry consumes 40% of the total raw materials produced in the world. These two observations make it...
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Muris, V.L.C. (author)
This "designers' manual" is made during the TIDO-course AR0531 Smart & Bioclimatic Design. Climate change causes the sea level to rise and affects the rain intensity. Together with the presence of dehydratation and salinization in the dry seasons, this increases the importance of water storage areas. Combined use can be made of these areas by...
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Van Agtmaal, B. (author)
This "designers' manual" is made during the TIDO-course AR0531 Smart & Bioclimatic Design. With an increasing need for more sustainable buildings, natural ventilation presents us with a low-energy and low-cost solution. This manual inspires designers to apply natural ventilation, by offering practical examples on how to integrate natural...
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Kim, L. (author)
This "designers' manual" is made during the TIDO-course AR0531 Smart & Bioclimatic Design. By the year 2050, it is projected that the world's population will exceed 9 billion people, with over 70 percent of humans living in cities. The current agricultural practices in rural landscapes lead to several pollution and land use problems. This leads...
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Divendal, N. (author)
This "designers' manual" is made during the TIDO-course AR0531 Smart & Bioclimatic Design. The demand for wood is on such a level that people are cutting away too many trees and thus shrink the forests. Furthermore, in the world of today there is too much wooden waste. When using wood for structural elements, it is important to take into account...
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McKellar, G. (author)
This "designers' manual" is made during the TIDO-course AR0531 Smart & Bioclimatic Design. There is a staggering amount of existing buildings in Canada which were not built to e efficient, sustainable homes. This manual gives openings for renovating your home efficiently by providing practical information on sustainable living, materials,...
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Van Stam, B. (author)
This "designers' manual" is made during the TIDO-course AR0531 Smart & Bioclimatic Design. Most students do not live very sustainable. They mostly rent their residence, leading to responsibility issues. Measures with a larger payback time are not taken because of the temporarily living situation and the relatively poor status of students. Still,...
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Christodoulou, A. (author)
This "designers' manual" is made during the TIDO-course AR0531 Smart & Bioclimatic Design. In our struggle towards a smarter building approach we can get our inspiration from natural and vernacular buildings, which survived for thousands of years and integrated well with nature, without the technological miracles of the present day. This manual...
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Tzoulis, A. (author)
This "designers' manual" is made during the TIDO-course AR0531 Smart & Bioclimatic Design. Passive techniques for cooling are a great way to cope with the energy problem of the present day. This manual introduces passive cooling by evaporation. These methods have been used for many years in traditional architecture, and can be analyzed to get a...
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Velner, R. (author)
This "designers' manual" is made during the TIDO-course AR0531 Smart & Bioclimatic Design. For the sake of both energy conservation and visual comfort, daylight is preferable to artificial light. There are several methods of bringing daylight to spaces in buildings where usually only artificial light would be. In this manual some of these...
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Heidegger, V. (author)
This "designers' manual" is made during the TIDO-course AR0531 Smart & Bioclimatic Design. Our globe is heating, and cities are heating up much more. At the same time, cities are growing and green spaces are substituted by buildings and streets. These man-made surfaces are dark and tend to heat up easily, contributing to the urban heat island...
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Kokkos, A. (author)
This "designers' manual" is made during the TIDO-course AR0531 Smart & Bioclimatic Design. A direct contribution to getting a more sustainable world is to reduce the energy consumption. Much is done in the operational energy of buildings. The embodied energy, used during the construction of a building, is often overlooked, but has a key role....
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Glias, A. (author)
This "designers' manual" is made during the TIDO-course AR0531 Smart & Bioclimatic Design. The aim of sustainable design is to create comfortable buildings for the users with the reduction of the use of mechanical systems for cooling and heating, and the maximization of the thermal attributes of the shell and the climate. Natural ventilation can...
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Klamer, G. (author)
This "designers' manual" is made during the TIDO-course AR0531 Smart & Bioclimatic Design. In nearly all hot-arid and temperate climates, earth has always been the most prevalent building material; not only in produced materials like clay brick, but also as raw earth, mud, sod and the principle of rammed earth. This manual focuses on the latter:...
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Smits, R. (author)
This "designers' manual" is made during the TIDO-course AR0531 Smart & Bioclimatic Design. Rainforests are the lungs of the earth and plants can be the lungs of a buildings. Every plant uses CO2, water and light to produce sugars and oxygen; furthermore plants provide shade, take pollutants from the air and provide evaporative cooling. This...
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Roelofs, S. (author)
This "designers' manual" is made during the TIDO-course AR0531 Smart & Bioclimatic Design. Nature has solved a lot of different problems we have created long before humans roamed the earth, and adapted to specific circumstances. This manual will discuss the deeper levels of biology on how certain organisms or techniques work. It explains the...
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Woodington, W. (author)
This "designers' manual" is made during the TIDO-course AR0531 Smart & Bioclimatic Design. Cohabitation of humans and agriculture can be used to improve building climate, human health and the state of the world. It affects building design and requires new building components. This manual explains why it is important to make integrated designs...
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Fremouw, M. (author)
This "designers' manual" is made during the TIDO-course AR0531 Smart & Bioclimatic Design. There are a few issues in our current energy use. We do not know how long the finite primary sources will last. The process of energy conversion makes very inefficient use of the primary energy sources. There are other ways to fulfill the need for comfort,...
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Bouwhuis, T. (author)
This "designers' manual" is made during the TIDO-course AR0531 Smart & Bioclimatic Design. Providing living space for animals in cities is an underexposed subject in the practice of urban designers. We encounter the results of conflicting situations between humans and animals almost every day, and often the animal getting the worst of it....
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Greco, A. (author)
This "designers' manual" is made during the TIDO-course AR0531 Smart & Bioclimatic Design. Wind climate is an important part of urban design. A basic knowledge of wind behaviour is required for this; however, this is not easy to get. Aerodynamicists study, explain and write about wind physics using a mathematical language, hardly being...
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