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Environmental Performance Modelling

The last class of Phase III in Environmental Performance Modelling ended with Faculty giving outlines to students projects on how to solve problems they have encountered while doing their projects for the seminar. They have been asked to design and test a single space building in a location of their choice. Their design should be [...]

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Environmental Performance Modelling

The classes in Environmental Performance Modelling continued with a detailed lecture on thermal analysis and what the back ground concept lays up on. This software not only takes data visually but also analytically, so students have to learn how to apply their basic knowledge of Heat and ventilation systems, and how they work. They also [...]

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Barbeque at Valldaura

After a four day workshop designing and fabricating parts of the Solar house participants (project directors, researchers, Fab Labbers and students)  of the seminar were off to Collserola Park – Cerdanyoa de Valles- where the House of Can Vallaura is located. Here is a place where experimentations like green architecture, nature, sustainability, energy and social activitis such as Green Fab [...]

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Generic Symbiosis

Having too much people in a limited territory becomes a problem of density. In this case, however, the opposite happens:  a vast and generic field, no topographic constrains; 10,000 people in 300 ha. How to occupy the territory? How to give value to every part of the land? And, most importantly, how to generate human interaction? As guiding principles, [...]

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