Schlagwort: water ecology
book: coping with urban climate
Book on urban climate published with Birkhäuser 2022. Hatte die Architektur des 20. Jahrhunderts die Kontrolle des Gebäudeklima zur Hauptaufgabe erklärt, so muss die Architektur im 21. Jahrhundert den Umgang mit dem Stadtklima lernen. Städtische Hitze und Luftverschmutzung gilt es in die Planung und Gestaltung einzubeziehen. Basierend auf empirischen Erkenntnissen aus Kairo, Chongqing, Genf und Santiago de Chile verdeutlicht…
research: energy landscape of geneva
Energy Ecologies of Geneva The study on Geneva addresses the topic of urban climate control in the context of the temperate climate and varying seasons in the central European city. In this research, the various scales of urban typologies, the neighbourhood and individual housing is examined to illustrate how the understanding of thermal comfort, which…
exhibition: energy landscape
The City as Energy Landscape. Exhibition at the Accademia di architettura in Mendrisio, 2020. This exhibition promotes the notion of “energy landscape” as a conceptual framework to challenge our current understanding of energy as a cheap and abundant source for architecture. It presents concepts and methods for designing the energy landscapes of the future, taking…