During the last decades, standards on building construction have risen sharply to integrate
new, ambitious demands regarding energy efficiency, as well as thermal and optical comfort …

Modern urban architecture is innovative, involves integrated solar technologies to increase
sustainability, by providing efficient energy solutions, and involves stakeholders from …

One of the top priorities in the building design process is minimizing energy consumption.
Moreover, the level of occupants' comfort directly affects their learning ability Therefore, this …

Introduction Adaptive reuse in heritage buildings is the best strategy rather than demolishing
and reconstructing, while the suggested retrofitting has severe constraints to preserve …

Energy consumption and visual comfort are issues worthy of concerning in the teaching
buildings. To improve the light and thermal environment in the classroom, structural …

As a state-of-the-art green façade technology, building-integrated microalgae bioreactor has
the potential to reduce buildings' carbon footprint and energy consumption. The present …

Most applied strategies during the building design process require careful consideration of
indoor air quality and thermal conditions. This requires a detailed analysis involving multi …

One of the most important sustainable building design goals is energy performance
throughout the life cycle of the building. In this article, the optimization of an office building …

As integrated components of the building envelopes, shading devices are the elements
designed for stopping excessive amount of direct and indirect sunlight passing through and …

In this paper, we present a Grasshopper plug-in that can be used to construct simulation
files, designed specifically for 3D concrete printing applications. A custom Grasshopper …