Passive design guidelines for Philippine housing based on the bahay kubo: Thermal comfort analyses and conceptual implementation of vernacular design strategies

Philippine low-income housing is uncomfortable since it is not built to deal with the hot and humid climate in a passive way. Since local vernacular architecture is known to have a good climatic responsive performance, the aim of this research is to learn how Philippine vernacular design strategies can improve thermal comfort for low-lying, sub...

Integrating Installations into a Zero-Energy Renovation

In order to counter climate change many approaches have been taken to make<br/>the building sector more sustainable. But for porch houses there aren't many<br/>solutions on the market. This research project uses one of the approaches that<br/>is does focus on porch houses, 2ndskin. In march 2018 a demonstrator project<br/>has been build in...

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