A. Luna Navarro
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User experience and satisfaction with the facade play a significant role in user comfort and energy efficiency of buildings. This paper explores the concept of User-Facade archetypes to inform the user-centred design of shading devices based on the perceived level of importanc ...
Effectiveness of window signalling systems in open-plan workplaces
Evidence from field work
Recent earthquakes have confirmed the vulnerability of our built environment, resulting in significant socio-economic losses, market disruptions, and environmental damage. Additionally, climate change is causing more frequent and severe weather-related events ...
High-performance glazing technologies are essential for achieving the occupant comfort and building energy efficiency required in contemporary and future buildings. In real-world applications, glazing façades are selected from a steadily increasing number of glazing technologi ...
Semi-automated vs manually controlled dynamic facades
Assessment through a field study on multi-domain occupant satisfaction
Occupant satisfaction and acceptance with automated control strategies for dynamic façades is currently a barrier to the upscale of these systems. Building owners, designers and occupants are often unconvinced that an automated control strategy for dynamic façades could really ...
Effects of Façades on Urban Acoustic Environment and Soundscape
A Systematic Review
Building occupants interact frequently with façades. These interactions simultaneously affect several domains of the indoor environment (visual, thermal, air quality and acoustic) and occupant perception, as well as the energy performance of the façades. Yet this multi-domain ...
The thermal performance of adaptive building envelopes can be evaluated using building performance simulation tools. Simulation capabilities and accuracy in predicting the dynamic behaviour of adaptive building envelopes can be enhanced through co-simulation. However, it is un ...
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 ...
The influence of occupant behaviour on the energy performance of single office space with adaptive facades
Simulation versus measured data
Firstly, experimental data is collected in a controlled office environment where occupants are exposed to manual and automated control sc ...
Building Impulse Toolkit (BIT)
A novel IoT system for capturing the influence of façades on occupant perception and occupant-façade interaction
The design and operation of responsive resource-efficient buildings requires high resolution data in space and time on building performance and the associated occupant response, but capturing this high quality data has traditionally been technologically challenging, costly and ...
Design, construction and validation of MATELab
A novel outdoor chamber for investigating occupant-facade interaction
Testing of novel facade technologies with human volunteers is essential for improving occupant interaction with novel dynamic facade systems and to increase satisfaction with its modulation of light, sound, heat and mass transfer between the outdoor and indoor environments. In ...