Arvizu Piña, Víctor Alberto (Date of defense: 2018-04-24)
The building sector environmental impact is specially important in emerging economies such as Mexico, due to the population increase and urban growth that they are currently facing. Due to the holistic ...
Atem, Camila Gregorio (Date of defense: 2016-11-10)
The ventilated facade is a multi-layer element that has been used in Europe for several decades. It has high degree of industrialization and specialization of elements. This "skin" of the building has ...
López Besora, Judit (Date of defense: 2015-11-05)
Architecture and environment are strongly linked. In Mediterranean countries, the control of radiation is one ofthe most important environmental aspects to take into account, because of the high radiation ...
Avellaneda López, Omar Fabrisio (Date of defense: 2020-07-16)
Deployable structures with articulated straight bars have the virtue of being lightweight, modular and transformable. This is how the architect Felix Escrig defined them, who left us a fantastic legacy ...
Martin Sáiz, Rodrigo (Date of defense: 2015-12-18)
At the beginning of times, technique was used to reduce the physical stress of any work undertaken by the mankind; this was done without taking into consideration any saving of the resources used. ...
De Angelis, Gabriella (Date of defense: 2015-11-20)
The great increase in natural phenomena with high destructive potential, that have materialized in events with social and economic catastrophic consequences for people and governments during the last ...
Ledesma Hidalgo, Maria Gabriela (Date of defense: 2022-07-28)
Technic, economic, environmental, and architectural constraints in existing building stocks set an energy renovation framework not always compatible with passive strategies. In deep energy renovations, ...
Muntané Raich, Oriol (Date of defense: 2016-12-22)
This document is about cool roofs. This is a relatively new term and refers to those roofs that are able to keep its surface temperature similar to the air's temperature in spite of solar radiation. ...
Espinoza Cateriano, Edgard Eduardo (Date of defense: 2022-09-05)
The research focuses on how to illuminate low light intensity spaces. Different uses of those spaces serve as the start point for rethinking lighting design. The characteristics of light, surface and ...
Torres Quezada, Jefferson Eloy (Date of defense: 2018-11-07)
The central scope of this thesis is the architectonic element THE ROOF within the context of regions with warm and humid climates near the equator. The constant population growth in the world has been ...