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Rethinking living matter: Animate behaviours of fungal composites (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Smart materials integrating conventional soft electronics e.g. sensors and actuators, are widely used in the building and wearable industries, contributing to the depletion of natural resources and having a vast environmental impact. In this paper, a... Read More about Rethinking living matter: Animate behaviours of fungal composites.

On beauty (2022)
Journal Article

“Beauty,” a term that almost defies definition, can be highly emotive in its use: more emotive, we posit, than many other commonplace terms used to frame thinking about the future of space and place. Thus, the relationship between beauty, decision ma... Read More about On beauty.

Schools as social complexes. How space affords self-directed learning (2022)
Journal Article

Buildings are social entities. They channel and distribute movement flows and structure who we encounter where and when. Architects can shape how sociable a building might become in use through its spatial layout and its power to bring people togethe... Read More about Schools as social complexes. How space affords self-directed learning.

From consumer to prosumer, how the general public can aid the transition to virtual power plants (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

There is currently a shift in the power generation and distribution models from a top down
centralised system to a network of decentralised grids making Virtual Power Plant (VPP)
technology an opportunity for a different model of power supply. In t... Read More about From consumer to prosumer, how the general public can aid the transition to virtual power plants.

Design lessons from plants for adaptive solar skins (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Several systems have been developed to enhance buildings’ environmental performance towards reducing their operational energy demand. However, there is still potential for improving methods for responsively controlling daylight and solar gain while f... Read More about Design lessons from plants for adaptive solar skins.

Understanding the benefits of immersive technology use in furniture, fixture and equipment sector: A systematic review (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Potential strategies for enhancing solar architectural skins (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

As the climate crisis requires lowering carbon emissions on multiple fronts, building-integrated photovoltaics (BIPVs) can reduce buildings’ reliance on energy from fossil fuels by supplying them with electricity generated from a renewable source. In... Read More about Potential strategies for enhancing solar architectural skins.

‘Smartifying’ construction for circular and zero-carbon biobased buildings (SmartBioC) (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

SmartBioC focuses on creating a user-friendly digital tool that allows users to select and specify biobased materials and building components for a modular housing unit based on a set of performance indicators including carbon footprint, thermal perf... Read More about ‘Smartifying’ construction for circular and zero-carbon biobased buildings (SmartBioC).

Amphibious architecture: A review of the construction methods adopted in existing designs (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Effective flood mitigation strategies at individual property level can be designed to limit damage and facilitate recovery by limiting water entry or enabling entry into occupied spaces in a controlled manner. Ideally these strategies will be robust... Read More about Amphibious architecture: A review of the construction methods adopted in existing designs.

Land, air and water: Reclaiming the Anthropocene through Bristol’s infrastructural megastructures (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The paper presents work developed across a series of architectural design studios at the Department of Architecture and the Built in Environment at UWE Bristol, and the specific techniques of representation they have tested and refined towards combin... Read More about Land, air and water: Reclaiming the Anthropocene through Bristol’s infrastructural megastructures.