Climate customized façade: A prefabricated façade system customized for Ecuadorian climate regions

The Ecuadorian construction sector lacks thermal comfort standards, causing building’s design to disregard the existing variations between the climatic regions in the country. Indoor comfort levels are generally poor, encouraging the use of unsustainable cooling and heating systems. A building´s envelope plays an important role in the energy and...

Passive Design Strategies: For a public building in the dune landscape of Texel, The Netherlands

This paper researches passive design strategies that are applicable within the design of a public building for formal and informal events in the dunes of Texel, the Netherlands. Through research of local climatic conditions and the natural dune habitat, an understanding of the site and context was acquired. The natural context presents a...

Feeling home in a temporary environment: Creating a temporary living environment for students with shipping containers which gives a feeling of home

The last couple of years it is very hard for students to find a proper and affordable home in Amsterdam. As a reaction to this matter, the government has built several student complexes which consist of transformed shipping containers. It is a very effective and quick solution in order to cope with the rising number of students who are in need...

Shading design workflow for architectural designers

Energy Producing Architecture: Johanneberg Science Park

Buildings are responsible for approximately 40% of total worlds energy consumption (Kapsalaki et al., 2012). Most of this energy is provided by fossil fuels. According to various study this energy source will be depleted in 50 – 80 years. The climate change which is caused mainly by using fossil fuels makes the search for the alternatives in...

Regreening Nature: Turning negative externalities into oportunities

As a general rule, environmental design and engineering, instead of taking part from an early design stage, usually remains as a question of post-design optimization. A way to solve such problem may be found in looking at nature and working architecture along with ecology, where iteratively the design process involves varied relations and mutual...

Duurzame renovatie Schouwburg Kunstmin - Sustainable Renovation of monumental theater Kunstmin

How can the sustainability of the monumental theater Kunstmin, which will be renovated, be improved by means of spatial, architectural and technical installation procedures?

Sustainable education: An educational building on sustainable energy solutions in Haarlem Spaarnwoude

A 68 meter high sustainable university building and a discovery museum on the topic of sustainable energy.