Arias Holguín-Veras, Paloma Magdalena (Date of defense: 2022-10-17)
This doctoral thesis delves into the knowledge of Venetian glass known as smalti, a unique material with a long history whose main application has been as a tesserae of mosaic cladding. During the ...
Santana, Bruno Oliveira (Date of defense: 2021-11-23)
This thesis analyzes the wall’s thermal performance of learning spaces and its impact on cooling demand. Three classrooms are selected as case studies, each located on a different university campus in ...
Carvajal Jaramillo, Henry Hernan (Date of defense: 2018-05-25)
In the practice of restoration, knowledge on the primitive spatiality of buildings, their transformations throughout time and their materiality is crucial to responsibly approach this hard task. This ...
Martín Goñi, Paula (Date of defense: 2019-04-29)
In Spain the housing refurbishment hasn’t reached the 25% respect new construction, even though more than the half of the house has been built before 1980. Besides, the construction environmental impact ...
Chandia Jaure, Rosa (Date of defense: 2021-02-24)
The study of Traditional Ancestral Knowledge associated with the construction of a landscape and a way of living, constitutes an effective mechanism to move towards sustainable development. It is a ...
Escobar Ruiz, Violeta (Date of defense: 2018-02-08)
Several studies have been performed demonstrating the Ventilated Roof effectiveness (VR) in the reduction of heat transfer due to high solar radiation. The present study analyses and classifies the ...
Calderón Peñafiel, Juan Carlos (Date of defense: 2019-06-20)
Considering that architecture and construction play an active part in the current global warming problems, there is a need to develop resistant construction materials with coherent environmental ...
García Nevado, Elena (Date of defense: 2019-04-10)
Many of the citizen's daily activities take place in the streets. Climatic conditions in between buildings largely affect the user’s comfort of these spaces, and, consequently, the human perception of ...
López Ordóñez, Carlos Fernando (Date of defense: 2020-11-30)
By 2050, the world's population will have doubled and will be mainly urban. This perspective generates the need to think about the present and the future of cities, especially those located in mid-latitudes, ...
Vargas Beltrán, Dan Delvi (Date of defense: 2022-11-09)
(English) The characteristics of the transport system are what explain the difficulties and facilities for mobility and access to services. The transport situation in the urban area of La Paz has been ...
69 - Building (construction) trade. Building materials. Building practice and procedure (31)
71 - Physical planning. Regional, town and country planning. Landscapes, parks, gardens (7)
620 - Materials testing. Commercial materials. Power stations. Economics of energy (4)
332 - Regional economics. Territorial economics. Land economics. Housing economics. (2)