Smart Living Building Research Program - Executive Summary

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Two design studios were successively taught in two schools of architecture: one at the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) and the other at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) in Lausanne, Switzerland, based on "A Global Morato ...

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This study addresses the critical need for sustainable architectural designs within the context of climate change and the significant role the built environment plays in greenhouse gas emissions. The focus of this paper is on understanding the influence of ...

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Superconducting electronics provide us with cryogenic digital circuits that can rival established technologies in performance and energy consumption. Today, the lack of tools for the design of large-scale integrated superconducting circuits is a major obst ...

Carefully extracting reinforced concrete (RC) elements from soon-to-be demolished structures and reusing them as load-bearing components is an emerging circular low-carbon alternative to building new structures. As floor construction typically accounts for ...

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Smart Living Building Research Program - Executive Summary

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Teaching Not To

An explorative method to support design decisions based on carbon constraints and daylight sufficiency needs

Embodied Carbon Premium for Cantilevers

Course Design - A Visual and Modular Approach

The Current State of the OBI DICT Project: A Bilingual e-Dictionary of Oracle-Bone Inscriptions with AI Image Recognition

Technology-Aware Logic Synthesis for Superconducting Electronics

FLO:RE – A new floor system made of reused reinforced concrete and steel elements

Artificial intelligence of things for smart cities: advanced solutions for enhancing transportation safety

Surface segregation in high-entropy alloys from alchemical machine learning

Models implemented in the methodological approach to design the initial STEP first wall contour

DARTS-NETGAB: DESIGN AUTOMATION AND REAL-TIME SIMULATION USING NEURAL NETWORKS ENSEMBLES FOR TURBOCOMPRESSORS ON GAS-BEARINGS

The synergistic interplay of artificial intelligence and digital twin in environmentally planning sustainable smart cities: A comprehensive systematic review

RE:SLAB — a load bearing system for open-ended component reuse in building structures

Strategy to systematically design and deploy the ITER plasma control system: A system engineering and model-based design approach

What is NExT? A new conceptual model for comfort, satisfaction, health, and well-being in buildings

Low-tech methods for the reuse of reinforced concrete structural elements

Preserving suspended structures with light façades (1960-1980). Architectural study and retrofitting proposals

Interactive design with optimum matchmaking of reused structural elements – a software implementation

Appropriations and Uses of Travel Time

Thermal Design of a Medium Voltage Modular Multilevel Converter Cell