L´edificio residenziale De Hooch, progettato da MVSA Architects, è caratterizzato da un particolare tipo di materiale in facciata: una tipologia di vetro a controllo solare ad alto isolamento, il quale è capace di assicurare il massimo livello di luminosità all’interno degli edifici e il minimo apporto di calore.
This social housing block in Paris has been renovated by architect Jean-Christophe Quinton who has worked on the facade by making it more aesthetically appealing to destigmatise social housing. The facade indeed looks like waves of meringue.
Athens has developed a ‘Façade’ (Πρόσοψη) programme to renovate the facades of the buildings. The main difference of this programme compared to others in the EU is that the city is offering homeowners 100% of the funds required to do the work – to a maximum of 6,000 euros per building and even more for protected buildings.
This webinar aims to provide a framework to address the importance and significance of good bedroom IAQ, indoor air pollution and ventilation and encourage discussion on the need and call to action towards enhancing the IAQ in sleeping environments across different climates.
In the CITYSOLAR project, a new breakthrough concept for TPV will be developed by exploiting the combined use of emerging technologies, namely multi-junction solar modules developed from near-ultraviolet perovskite and near-infrared organic solar cells. Using advanced concepts within light management such as photonic crystals, nanophotonics and photon recycling and advanced module integration schemes, CITYSOLAR will radically change performance limits for TPV by significantly reducing losses related to light absorption and scale-up from individual solar cells to multi-junction modules.
Cultuurcampus pilots a new approach to city making through education, research, policy and culture at the heart of Rotterdam South, an area which is exemplary of the complex challenges and diverse potential of Europe’s most disadvantaged urban areas. In our approach, we facilitate the coming together of different types of knowledge - theoretical, practical, from the arts and sciences - with the lived experiences of citizens. We do so in three ways.
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The Energiesprong whole house retrofit model has been applied across six UK social housing schemes to improve their energy performance. The Energiesprong approach aims to fully insulate homes using offsite manufactured wall and roof panels.
The EU-funded SAFE-FACE project will develop earthquake-proof sustainable facades for mid-rise and newly built residential and office buildings via sustainable techniques for integrating damage-control. The project will develop multicriteria performance-based tools and frameworks like the decisive criterion of seismic safety to support the design of facade systems.
Pop-Machina is a Horizon 2020 project that seeks to highlight and reinforce the links between the maker movement and circular economy in order to promote environmental sustainability and generate socio-economic benefits in European cities.