Urban Facades: Integration of TiO2 coating into facade elements of historical buildings in Athens for air purification purposes

In the last few decades, air pollution constitutes a major global problem that results in adverse effects on human’s health, nature and the built environment. Many abatement strategies have been adopted for its combat in all these different fields. This graduation project focuses on the built environment and tackles the application of TiO2 on...

Bioreceptive Urban Facades: Integration of Bryophytes Into Facades and Their Impact on Exterior Building Temperatures

Rapidly expanding urban developments are having an inverse relationship on the surrounding urban environment. Facades and the materials that they are composed of can have a large impact on the warming of urban microclimates. By reducing or cooling the external surfaces of a facade a building maybe able to offset its contribution to the urban...

Urban Facades: Photocatalytic Building Envelope for Passive Remediation of Air Pollution

Air pollution is a worldwide prevailing issue affecting the health of human beings in urban areas requiring urgent measures to adopted. This graduation project targets on adoption of passive air remediation techniques that can be widely applied into urban areas. Within the passive technical measures available, integrating greeneries on the...