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A. Mahdavi:
"Architectural Science: Quo Vadis?";
Talk: Angewandte Praxis - Die Vermessung der Energie-Effizienz /, Angewandte Innovation Lab / Wien / Österreich (invited); 2016-01-27.

Architectural science: Quo vadis?
Building Automation - Building Users - Urban Climate <=> Building Physics Core
Global Climate change + urban climate
Why should we especially worry about the urban climate?
The Urban Heat Island phenomenon
The UHI project
Indicator: Urban Heat Island Index
Urban Heat Island Intensity
Mean hourly UHI Distribution
A tale of two streets
Why should we care?
What can we do?
How to predict the effectiveness of mitigation?
The road aheat, what about a shortcut
Variables of an Urban Unit of Observation
Values of selected U2O variables for urban / rural locations around five weather stations locations in the city of Vienna
Predictive simulation-based building systems control
A key feature of intelligent behavior
Short-term projections
Long-term projections
Conventional (reactiv) control: looking to the past
Predictive control: looking to the future
A simulation-based approach: search in the control state space
Implementation example: passive cooling
First instance: existing building - VUT, Autria
Second instance: new building - FIBAG, Styria, Austria
Simulation-based control in action
Aspects of people's presence and behavior in buildings.
How people affect buildings'performance
Instances of passive effects
Why should we care?
A cross-section study of office buildings in Austria
When use what model
Human behavior and the rebound effect
Rebound effect
Predicted heating loads for 7 retrofit projects (versus monitored values 2009/2010)
Architectural science: quo vadis?

Architectural science: Quo vadis?
Building Automation - Building Users - Urban Climate <=> Building Physics Core
Global Climate change + urban climate
Why should we especially worry about the urban climate?
The Urban Heat Island phenomenon
The UHI project
Indicator: Urban Heat Island Index
Urban Heat Island Intensity
Mean hourly UHI Distribution
A tale of two streets
Why should we care?
What can we do?
How to predict the effectiveness of mitigation?
The road aheat, what about a shortcut
Variables of an Urban Unit of Observation
Values of selected U2O variables for urban / rural locations around five weather stations locations in the city of Vienna
Predictive simulation-based building systems control
A key feature of intelligent behavior
Short-term projections
Long-term projections
Conventional (reactiv) control: looking to the past
Predictive control: looking to the future
A simulation-based approach: search in the control state space
Implementation example: passive cooling
First instance: existing building - VUT, Autria
Second instance: new building - FIBAG, Styria, Austria
Simulation-based control in action
Aspects of people's presence and behavior in buildings.
How people affect buildings'performance
Instances of passive effects
Why should we care?
A cross-section study of office buildings in Austria
When use what model
Human behavior and the rebound effect
Rebound effect
Predicted heating loads for 7 retrofit projects (versus monitored values 2009/2010)
Architectural science: quo vadis?

Urban heat islands, predictive control, Simulation, measurement, Architectural sciences