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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
León Vázquez, Juan Carlos (Date of defense: 2018-02-07)
The solar chimney is a climatic conditioning passive system. This can generate air movements in a room by means of solar radiation. These air movements can amplify the comfort zone increasing human ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...