Publications by Sergi Aguacil Moreno

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Regeneration of Urban Areas: From Neighbourhoods in Transition to Innovative Components

Emmanuel Rey, Sergi Aguacil Moreno, Martine Laprise, Judith Elisa Drouilles, Sara Sonia Formery Regazzoni, Pascal Pierre Michon, Clément Cattin, Aleksis Dind

Research at the Laboratory of Architecture and Sustainable Technologies (LAST) at EPFL aims to explore the interactions between architectural design and transitions towards sustainability in the built environment. This concerns as much the polycentric rest ...

Lars Müller Publishers2025

Architectural design scenarios with building-integrated photovoltaic solutions in renovation processes: Case study in Neuchâtel (Switzerland)

Emmanuel Rey, Sophie Lufkin, Sergi Aguacil Moreno

In view of the importance of urban renewal processes, building-integrated photovoltaic (BIPV) systems can potentially provide a crucial response to the energy turnaround challenges. Functioning both as envelope material and electricity generator, they can ...

2016

Energy renovation of the built heritage housing based on the living building challenge certification. Case study in Bresca (Spain)

Sergi Aguacil Moreno

In light of increasing sustainability requirements, one of the challenges related to the heritage building stock consists in finding a balance between preserving the existing architectural character and improving energy efficiency. The project presented in ...

2020

Hydrogen-based electricity storage optimization on buildings by coupling thermal and photovoltaic electricity production towards carbon neutrality

Sergi Aguacil Moreno, Philippe Couty

Self-sufficiency (SS) of buildings with low greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions can be obtained using photovoltaics (PV). To maximize self-consumption - minimizing the import of grid electricity - PV can be coupled with a hydrogen storage system converting the ...

2021

Environmental impact assessment of Swiss residential archetypes: a comparison of construction and mobility scenarios

Emmanuel Rey, Sophie Lufkin, Sergi Aguacil Moreno, Thomas Bernard Paul Jusselme, Endrit Hoxha, Judith Elisa Drouilles

Environmental performance assessment of the built environment tends to focus mostly on operational final energy consumption of buildings located within a specific context. Such a limited scope prevents broader usability of findings in practice. In Switzerl ...

2019

Architectural Design Strategies for Building-Integrated Photovoltaics in residential building renovation processes

Sergi Aguacil Moreno

Tomorrow's European cities are already largely built, as much of the existing building stock ¿ with a low level of energy performance ¿ will still be standing in 2050. Urban renewal processes therefore play an essential role towards their sustainable trans ...

EPFL2019

Comparing thermal performance of standard humanitarian tents

Dusan Licina, Sergi Aguacil Moreno, Paolo Tombesi, Shen Yang, Riccardo Vannucci, André Ullal

Humanitarian tents provide emergency shelter for people displaced by conflict and disaster in diverse climatic conditions. This article compares the thermal performance of two standard humanitarian tents – the Standard Family Tent (SFT) and the Geodesic Fa ...

2022

Towards integrated design strategies for implementing BIPV systems into urban renewal processes: first case study in Neuchâtel (Switzerland)

Emmanuel Rey, Sophie Lufkin, Sergi Aguacil Moreno

In view of the importance of urban renewal processes, building-integrated photovoltaic (BIPV) systems can potentially provide a crucial response to the challenges of the energy turnaround. Functioning both as envelope material and electricity generator, th ...

2016

Influence of energy-use scenarios in Life-Cycle Analysis of renovation projects with Building-Integrated Photovoltaics – Investigation through two case studies in Neuchâtel (Switzerland)

Emmanuel Rey, Sophie Lufkin, Sergi Aguacil Moreno

Since tomorrow’s cities are already largely built, and as many of their buildings – with a low level of energy performance – will still be standing in 2050, urban renewal processes play an essential role towards the sustainable development of European citi ...

H. Elsharkawy, S. Zahiri, J. Clough2017

Influence of future climate scenarios on the sizing of Building-Integrated Photovoltaics (BIPV) installations. Case study of a new research-center building in Switzerland

Sergi Aguacil Moreno

This paper analyzes the findings obtained when applying a multi-criteria performance-based method for sizing a BIPV installation considering different weather files, representing historical data (TMY; typical meteorological year) and prospective data (thre ...

2023

Designing with building-integrated photovoltaics (BIPV): A pathway to decarbonize residential buildings

Emmanuel Rey, Sophie Lufkin, Sergi Aguacil Moreno, Sebastian Duque Mahecha

The ambitious targets set for greenhouse gas emissions and energy efficiency by 2050 demand a critical increase of building renovation rates. This challenge is shared by most Western nations, including Europe and Switzerland, where the current annual renov ...

Elsevier BV2024

Building-integrated photovoltaics (BIPV) combined with hydrogen-based electricity storage system at building-scale towards carbon neutrality

Sergi Aguacil Moreno

Electricity storage technologies in buildings are evolving, mainly to reduce their environmental impact and to improve self-sufficiency of buildings that produce their own energy through Building-Integrated Photovoltaics (BIPV) installations. To maximize s ...

Czech Technical University2022

Taking a step back from glass towers facades to make them compatible with the 2050 targets

Sergi Aguacil Moreno, Bernard Paule

Skyscrapers or glass towers are an extremely common model throughout the world. In the current context of climate change and resource depletion, we need to develop new postures towards these objects, especially for existing buildings that are becoming obso ...

2023

A performance-driven simulation workflow for PV integration into the design process: application on an innovative building project in Switzerland

Sergi Aguacil Moreno

In the construction sector, the integration of active elements functioning both as building envelope material and on-site electricity generator is identified as a key measure to achieve the 2050 targets and carbon neutrality (Aguacil Moreno, 2019; Aguacil ...

2021

Integration of Indoor Air Quality Prediction into Healthy Building Design

Dusan Licina, Sergi Aguacil Moreno, Shen Yang, Sebastian Duque Mahecha

Healthy building design is an emerging field of architecture and building engineering. Indoor air quality (IAQ) is an inevitable factor that should be considered in healthy building design due to its demonstrated links with human health and well-being. Thi ...

MDPI2022

Comparative approach of the environmental impact induced by different architectural visions of a new periurban neighbourhood

Emmanuel Rey, Sophie Lufkin, Sergi Aguacil Moreno, Martine Laprise

The objective of this research work is to compare the environmental impact, expressed in terms of non-renewable cumulative energy demand (CEDnr) and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, of nine architectural visions for a new neighbourhood located in the periur ...

2022

Active renovation strategies with building-integrated photovoltaics (BIPV). Application on an early 20th century multi-family building

Emmanuel Rey, Sergi Aguacil Moreno

Tomorrow's cities are already largely built, as much of the existing building stock – with a low level of energy performance – will still be standing in 2050. Urban renewal processes therefore play an essential role towards the sustainable transition of Eu ...

2020

Exploring easy-implementable adaptation strategies to climate change scenarios of existing office buildings: a case study in the Swiss context

Dolaana Khovalyg, Sergi Aguacil Moreno, Verena Marie Barthelmes, Cecile Anne Berquand

European energy policies are aimed at increasing the climate resilience of infrastructure, including new and existing buildings. The implications of future ambient conditions on the energy and environmental performance in buildings and respective adaptatio ...

2021

Life cycle efficiency of solar shading systems: a proof-of-concept

Marilyne Andersen, Sergi Aguacil Moreno, Thomas Bernard Paul Jusselme, Nazanin Rezaei Oghazi

Solar control strategies are essential for the glare control and decreasing cooling needs or overheating risks (in the absence of active cooling system), however, they come with their own embodied energy. With the carbon neutrality objective looking at the ...

2021

Dataset concerning the hourly conversion factors for the cumulative energy demand and its non-renewable part, and hourly GHG emission factors of the Swiss mix during a one-year period (2016 and 2017)

Sergi Aguacil Moreno, Didier Albert Simon Vuarnoz

The provided data are the hourly CO2-eq emission factors, and the hourly conversion factors for the cumulative energy demand and its non-renewable part for the Swiss electricity mix over one year (2016 and 2017). These data have been assessed on the base o ...

2020