RESOURCES - Architecture, Energy, and Environment Lab (AiEM

These are the resources provided by the AiEM research group for students, researchers, and people interested in the field of architecture and energy to explore this area of knowledge with more available tools.

Natural lighting sizing

Self-learning tool for sizing and evaluating the behavior of indoor natural daylighting through flux calculation.

Psychrometry in architectural environments: construction and measurements

Resource with theoretical explanation of the construction, description, and practical use of the psychrometric chart.

Psychrometry in architectural environments: application examples

Resource with examples of the practical application of the psychrometric chart.

Psychrometric Chart

Resource with the clean psychrometric chart ready for use.

Psychrometric Chart: comfort and correction zones with architecture

Resource with comfort zones to review calculations made with the chart.

Stereographic Sun-path Diagram

Resource with examples of the practical application of the psychrometric chart.

Greenhouse Effect

Resource with graphical theoretical explanation of the greenhouse effect phenomenon in architecture.

Climate Sizing

Resource for climate sizing by calculating balance and variability.

Lighting Sizing

Resource to size and verify the interior lighting behavior of a building calculating point by point.

Acoustic Sizing: emission and reverberation time

Resource with theoretical and applied application on the propagation of airborne noise and calculations of acoustic immission and reverberation time for the built environment.

Acoustic Sizing: audiogram

Resource for the practical application of the use of the audiogram and the evaluation of the sound diffraction phenomenon in the air.

Hearing

Tool for calculating the reverberation period and acoustic insulation of an architectural space.

Temperature

Self-learning resource for the study of temperature.

Terrain Modification

Self-learning resource for terrain modification.

Terrain Modification: excavations

Self-learning resource for modifying the terrain by creating platforms.

Terrain Modification: platforms

Resource for modifying contours in a terrain by creating elevated platforms.

OCI files

Technical files for the design and calculation of building installations.

Physical definition of the environment

Chart.

Thermal physics

Notes.

TOOLS

CBE Thermal Comfort Tool

Online tool for calculating thermal comfort.

Heliodon

This site contains tools and applications, especially for architecture and urban projects, that deal with daylight, acoustics and, more generally, sensible geometry.

TAREB

This site contains the EU TAREB project. It contains educational material that complements the core and selected specialized modules of the European Master’s: Integration of Renewable Energies in buildings.

Podcast light and access spaces

Podcast Ona Arquitectònica of the interview with Judit López about Mediterranean light and architectural access spaces.

EULEB

The project “EUropean high quality Low Energy Buildings” provides information on high-quality, low-energy non-residential public buildings from all over Europe.