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Restorative design of urban brownfields, an interdisciplinary approach interconnecting nature-based solutions, heritage requalification and human wellbeing. A case study in Rome

Silvia Coccolo

In order to face increasing socio-economic challenges in a climate-change scenario, we should aim at re- designing our built environment, improving resilience and sustainability. Green infrastructure - trees in particular - play a critical role in urban he ...

INT BUILDING PERFORMANCE SIMULATION ASSOC-IBPSA2020

Data To Reproduce "Cim-Citysim Coupling" On The Epfl Campus

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Silvia Coccolo, Dasaraden Mauree

The data to reproduce results from the paper " Multi-scale modelling to evaluate building energy consumption at the neighbourhood scale " with DOI : 10.1371/journal.pone.0183437 can be found in this repository. We provide the useful data to rerun the CityS ...

2017

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

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Silvia Coccolo, Dasaraden Mauree, Jérôme Henri Kämpf

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 ...

2018

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

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Silvia Coccolo, Jérôme Henri Kämpf

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 ...

International Building Performance Simulation Association2013

The EPFL Campus in Lausanne: New Energy Strategies for 2050

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Silvia Coccolo, Jérôme Henri Kämpf

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 ...

Elsevier2015

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

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Silvia Coccolo, Roberto Castello

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 ...

IOP science2019

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

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Silvia Coccolo, Emanuele Naboni

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 ...

2018

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

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Silvia Coccolo, Emanuele Naboni

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 ...

Elsevier2017

Mobile Urban Micrometeorological Monitoring (MUMiM)

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Silvia Coccolo, Dasaraden Mauree, Laurent Deschamps, Pierre Loesch, Paul Becquelin

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 ...

2019

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

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Jérôme Henri Kämpf, Silvia Coccolo, Vahid Moussavi Nik

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 ...

Elsevier2017

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

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Dasaraden Mauree, Silvia Coccolo, Amarasinghage Tharindu Dasun Perera, Cynthia Houmani

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 ...

IOP Science2019

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

Silvia Coccolo, Emanuele Naboni

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 ...

School of Architecture The Chinese University of Hong Kong2018

The impact of urban texture on energy system design process

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Silvia Coccolo, Dasaraden Mauree, Amarasinghage Tharindu Dasun Perera, Sameh Monna

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 ...

IOP2019

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

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Silvia Coccolo, Amarasinghage Tharindu Dasun Perera, Dasaraden Mauree

2018

Impact of evapotranspiration on the local microclimate

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Silvia Coccolo, Dasaraden Mauree

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 ...

2019

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

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Silvia Coccolo, Amarasinghage Tharindu Dasun Perera, Dasaraden Mauree, Vahid Moussavi Nik, Emanuele Naboni

2018

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

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Silvia Coccolo, Jérôme Henri Kämpf

2015

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

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Silvia Coccolo, Dasaraden Mauree, Emanuele Naboni

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 ...

Elsevier2017

The Integration of Outdoor Thermal Simulation Tools in Architectural Design

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Silvia Coccolo, Jérôme Henri Kämpf, Emanuele Naboni

2017

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

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Jérôme Henri Kämpf, Silvia Coccolo, Dasaraden Mauree, Sameh Monna

2016