This is a study that deals with the creation of people’s lifestyle expectation, part of a broad investigation on the evolution of domestic space in Recife, Brazil. It is focused on the apartment building, nowadays the most popular middle-class housing form. It looks at the advertisement campaigns publicised by housing developers, with the interest to identify and describe the attributes used in...

Commercial areas, especially urban ones with numerous buildings, are becoming increasingly prone to congestion because of their popularity. Visual inspections show that interactions between pedestrians and building entrances affect the distribution pedestrian trajectories, which influences utility spaces design shopping areas. Herein, we analyse dynamics deviations around entrances. We used a v...

Resource depletion and global warming dictate needs to reduce energy consumption, however energy used for the environmental space conditioning of buildings remains substantial; even in well-designed examples. Therefore the ways in which buildings are utilized, and occupant expectations of comfort in building environments should be researched to determine alternative means for optimizing perform...

Air pollution due to PM2.5 is of public concern in Korea. Ambient PM2.5 can penetrate indoors through the building envelope, affecting the indoor PM2.5 concentrations. Most people stay indoors for approximately 80% of every day, implying that their primary exposure to PM2.5 could be determined by the indoor air. This study aims to investigate the infiltration of ambient PM2.5 through the buildi...

Title of thesis: COMPUTATIONAL FRAMEWORK FOR PARAMETRIC MODELING AND ARCHITECTURE-ENERGY ASSESSMENT OF BUILDING FLOORPLANS Eddie Tseng, Master of Science, 2015 Thesis directed by: Associate Professor Mark Austin Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and ISR Modern building systems can be exceedingly complex. In this research we develop a computational framework for the parametric mo...