Completed PhD projects

CLIMATE-ADAPTIVE FACADES

Designing responsive building skins as a coactive approach to integral energy saving design and user comfort in architecture

PhD project by Torsten Sack-Nielsen

Contemporary facade designs face the challenge of tightened building legislation, with high demands on both maximized user-comfort and minimized energy consumption. In order to cope with various states of both inner and outer climatic conditions, static façade solutions seem inappropriate to fulfil a broader range of requirements. Dynamic solutions are needed instead.

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The objective of the research is to unfold the potential of façades to be both responsive and performative towards various climatic conditions, in order to achieve a good indoor climate and contribute actively to the low energy profile of the building.

The research employs a methodology of research-by-design experiments to investigate the shape-changing surface abilities and material-embedded properties of multi-functional materials. The outcomes of these experiments are a series of proposals for alternative façade concepts that extend the possibilities of climate-adaptive building design through dynamic behaviour.

Supervisors

Associate Professor Inge Vestergaard
Professor MSO Walter Unterrainer

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Illustration: Karianne Halse

Completed PhD project, Karianne Halse

Form(s) of Instability – Demonstrations in the Architectural Potential of Weakness

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21.06.2023

Completed PhD project, Heidi Sørensen Merrild

REVERSIBLE TECTONICS

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01.03.2022

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Completed PhD project, Stine Dalager Nielsen

In Search of Building – Relating Object and Practice. Rethinking Assisted Self-Build Practices in Denmark

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11.03.2020

Completed PhD project, Jens Pedersen

Parawood – On-site parametric robotic fabrication of timber constructions

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07.01.2020

Aida Español Vilanova, Completed PhD project

The works of an architect. Tectonic matters

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23.09.2019

Completed PhD project, Ricelli Laplace Resende

Responsible Architecture: Relational Approaches to Sustainable Behavior in Design

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10.09.2019

Completed PhD project, Soo Jung Ryu

‘URBAN SEASCAPING’ – HOW TO LIVE NOT JUST BY THE SEA BUT WITH THE SEA

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05.09.2019

Completed PhD project, Gitte Juul

Building relational spaces

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15.11.2018

Birgitte Tanderup Eybye, Completed PhD project

SUSTAINABILITY IN DENMARK’S ARCHITECTURAL HERITAGE

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07.01.2016

Completed PhD project

LIST OF COMPLETED PHD PROJECTS 2007-2015

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07.12.2014