Publications by Silvia Coccolo

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In the present century, for the first time in history, the urban population overpassed the rural one. Cities are growing, and their impact on the world energy balance is significant. Consequently, a sustainable urban environment focusing on the reduction o ...

The increase of the world's population leads to an urgent need of radical measures to diminish the energy footprint of humanity. This study considers the realisation of an optimal Masterplan in energy terms for the new EPFL Research Centre in Ras A1 Khaima ...

The increase of the urban population and the climate change are issues that scientists and stakeholders are facing nowadays; in this optic a sustainable design should address buildings, and all the physical phenomena that interact with them, from the urban ...

All the projected scenarios agree on the immediate necessity of reducing greenhouse gas emissions, especially carbon dioxide (CO2). This research proposes an analysis on the EPFL campus of all the potential reductions of CO2 emissions: energy refurbishment ...

The expanding design interest in outdoor comfort design is today supported by a few software tools. Given their different user-friendliness, modelling environments and simulation engines, a rational inquiry is how they are integrated into the digital desig ...

When modelling outdoor microclimates, researchers and designers need to be aware of the modelling capabilities and limitations of tools. This comparative study attempts to understand how tools such as CitySim Pro, ENVI-met, RayMan, Grasshopper plug-ins Hon ...

To understand the urban environment from a meteorological perspective in order to design better and more sustainable neighbourhoods, an open-source and low-cost meteorological device was developed and tested at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne ...

Climate changes induce warmer climate with stronger and more frequent extreme events. Due to the uncertain nature of climate, accurate simulation of future conditions is impossible and a major challenge is the selection of climate data in the impact assess ...

A reduction by 80% of the greenhouse gas emissions as well as a similar decrease for the final energy consumption is needed to respect the energy strategies and climate objectives at the European scale. To address this issue, we analysed the energy demand ...

The current paper presents the activities carried out by a Working Group (WG2) within the frame of the COST ActionCA16114 ‘RESTORE: Rethinking Sustainability Towards a Regenerative Economy’. The content is divided into two parts: a brief overview of the on ...

This study evaluates the impact of urban planning decisions regarding building stock on energy system design and operation. Three urban planning scenarios are considered for an archetype neighbourhood in Nablus in Palestine. The distinguishing difference i ...

Climate change is having and will have drastic consequences for high density populated areas such as cities. There is thus a need to develop more tools to evaluate new strategies for adaptation to and mitigation of changing temperatures. Additional functio ...

The energy demand of buildings and outdoor human comfort are key elements of a sustainable urban design. The wind speed has an enormous impact on thermal sensation, but the sensation itself is hard to quantify. The objective of this paper is to understand ...

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Cooling potential of greening in the urban environment, a step further towards practice

Design in the desert. A bioclimatic project with urban energy modelling

The EPFL Campus in Lausanne: New Energy Strategies for 2050

Geospatial analysis and optimization of the incoming and stored CO2 emissions within the EPFL campus

Outdoor comfort simulation of complex architectural designs: a review of simulation tools from the designer perspective

An overview of simulation tools for predicting the mean radiant temperature in an outdoor space

Mobile Urban Micrometeorological Monitoring (MUMiM)

Investigating the importance of future climate typology on estimating the energy performance of buildings in the EPFL campus

Local climate impact on the energy demand: an analysis at the European scale

Rethinking Sustainability Towards a Regenerative Economy (RESTORE) within an Adaptive Neighbourhood Design

The impact of urban texture on energy system design process

Quantifying the impact of urban climate by extending the boundaries of urban energy system modeling

Impact of evapotranspiration on the local microclimate

A New Framework to Evaluate Urban Design Using Urban Microclimatic Modeling in Future Climatic Conditions

Outdoor human comfort and climate change. A case study in the EPFL campus in Lausanne

On the impact of the wind speed on the outdoor human comfort: a sensitivity analysis

The Integration of Outdoor Thermal Simulation Tools in Architectural Design

On the impact of local climatic conditions on urban energy use: A case study

Urban energy simulation based on a new data model paradigm: the CityGML Application Domain Extension Energy. A case study in the EPFL campus of Lausanne

The EPFL campus in Lausanne: new energy strategies for 2050