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M. Vuckovic, S. Attila, R. Gallardo Gomez, N. Hodzic, V. Lisyana, P.R. Rissetto, M. Solman, T. Tezarek, N. Ghiassi, M. Taheri, F. Tahmasebi, U. Pont, A. Mahdavi:
"The EMULATE Project Course as an instance of Research-guided teaching";
Talk: Vienna Young Scientists Symposium 2017, Wien, TU Wien; 2017-06-01 - 2017-06-02; in: "VIENNA young SCIENTISTS SYMPOSIUM", G. Artner, A. Bogadi, J. Grames, I. Hahn, P. Hans, H. Krebs, T. Rouhi (ed.); Book-of-Abstracts, (2017), ISBN: 978-3-9504017-5-2; 152 - 153.

University education aims at the advancement of the current state of knowledge. Toward this end,
research-guided teaching provides a host of effective opportunities. Following this approach, the
curricular development for the Master of Building Science programme on the TU Wien integrated a
course into its current curriculum that offers a platform for research-inspired teaching. This course
is named Project course, and during the Winter semester 2016/2017 students had the opportunity to
deepen their knowledge via working on current trends and ideas within two research streams
currently followed at the Department of Building Physics and Building Ecology. This contribution
reports on the efforts and results of one of the two research streams, called the EMULATE project.
The EMULATE project targets the conceptual development of innovative urban energy modelling
environment. Currently, the interest in urban-scale energy modeling environments has been steadily
increasing. This is in part due to the insight, that certain critical questions regarding the
performance of the built environment cannot be sufficiently treated at the level of individual
buildings. However, bound to achieve computational efficiency, past urban-scale modeling efforts
frequently rely on various domain simplifications. For instance, heat transfer phenomena are
captured using reduced order models. This could involve not only the simplification of the
geometry and zonal complexity of modelled buildings, but also a significant reduction of the
temporal resolution of the modelling results. As a consequence, certain important queries cannot be
accommodated with appropriate levels of resolution. Specifically, the temporal dynamics of load
patterns and their dependency on transient phenomena (e.g., weather conditions, inhabitants´
presence and actions) cannot be realistically represented. To address these circumstances, the
envisioned urban energy modelling environment combines various developments in the fields of
urban building stock energy performance assessments, microclimate modelling, and occupancy
modelling, towards the more realistic assessment of urban and neighborhood level energy
assessments. Thereby, the students involved in the project course were given the task to explore the
challenges and potentials of the essential features of the above-mentioned integrative environment,
specifically, the simulation-supported assessment of urban building stock energy performance,
microclimate modelling, occupancy modelling, and alternative urban development and densification
schemes.

(no german version available) University education aims at the advancement of the current state of knowledge. Toward this end,
research-guided teaching provides a host of effective opportunities. Following this approach, the
curricular development for the Master of Building Science programme on the TU Wien integrated a
course into its current curriculum that offers a platform for research-inspired teaching. This course
is named Project course, and during the Winter semester 2016/2017 students had the opportunity to
deepen their knowledge via working on current trends and ideas within two research streams
currently followed at the Department of Building Physics and Building Ecology. This contribution
reports on the efforts and results of one of the two research streams, called the EMULATE project.
The EMULATE project targets the conceptual development of innovative urban energy modelling
environment. Currently, the interest in urban-scale energy modeling environments has been steadily
increasing. This is in part due to the insight, that certain critical questions regarding the
performance of the built environment cannot be sufficiently treated at the level of individual
buildings. However, bound to achieve computational efficiency, past urban-scale modeling efforts
frequently rely on various domain simplifications. For instance, heat transfer phenomena are
captured using reduced order models. This could involve not only the simplification of the
geometry and zonal complexity of modelled buildings, but also a significant reduction of the
temporal resolution of the modelling results. As a consequence, certain important queries cannot be
accommodated with appropriate levels of resolution. Specifically, the temporal dynamics of load
patterns and their dependency on transient phenomena (e.g., weather conditions, inhabitants´
presence and actions) cannot be realistically represented. To address these circumstances, the
envisioned urban energy modelling environment combines various developments in the fields of
urban building stock energy performance assessments, microclimate modelling, and occupancy
modelling, towards the more realistic assessment of urban and neighborhood level energy
assessments. Thereby, the students involved in the project course were given the task to explore the
challenges and potentials of the essential features of the above-mentioned integrative environment,
specifically, the simulation-supported assessment of urban building stock energy performance,
microclimate modelling, occupancy modelling, and alternative urban development and densification
schemes.

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