Publications de Silvia Coccolo

Restorative design of urban brownfields, an interdisciplinary approach interconnecting nature-based solutions, heritage requalification and human wellbeing. A case study in Rome

In order to face increasing socio-economic challenges in a climate-change scenario, we should aim at re- designing our built environment, improving resilience and sustainability. Green infrastructure - trees in particular - play a critical role in urban he ...

INT BUILDING PERFORMANCE SIMULATION ASSOC-IBPSA2020

Climate impact and energy sustainability of future European neighborhoods

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Silvia Coccolo, Amarasinghage Tharindu Dasun Perera, Louis Marc Bruno Delannoy, Dasaraden Mauree, Salil Puri

This study presents a comprehensive analysis of typical European city centers energy demand and supply for present time and 2050, according to the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC) climatic scenario A1B. Two multi-family houses are modeled, ...

2019

The impact of urban texture on energy system design process

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Silvia Coccolo, Amarasinghage Tharindu Dasun Perera, Sameh Monna, Dasaraden Mauree

This study evaluates the impact of urban planning decisions regarding building stock on energy system design and operation. Three urban planning scenarios are considered for an archetype neighbourhood in Nablus in Palestine. The distinguishing difference i ...

IOP2019

Geospatial analysis and optimization of the incoming and stored CO2 emissions within the EPFL campus

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Silvia Coccolo, Roberto Castello, Giovanni Mori

All the projected scenarios agree on the immediate necessity of reducing greenhouse gas emissions, especially carbon dioxide (CO2). This research proposes an analysis on the EPFL campus of all the potential reductions of CO2 emissions: energy refurbishment ...

IOP science2019

Local climate impact on the energy demand: an analysis at the European scale

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Silvia Coccolo, Amarasinghage Tharindu Dasun Perera, Dasaraden Mauree, Ismaël Krafess, Cynthia Houmani

A reduction by 80% of the greenhouse gas emissions as well as a similar decrease for the final energy consumption is needed to respect the energy strategies and climate objectives at the European scale. To address this issue, we analysed the energy demand ...

IOP Science2019

Impact of evapotranspiration on the local microclimate

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Silvia Coccolo, Dasaraden Mauree

Climate change is having and will have drastic consequences for high density populated areas such as cities. There is thus a need to develop more tools to evaluate new strategies for adaptation to and mitigation of changing temperatures. Additional functio ...

2019

A review of assessment methods for the urban environment and its energy sustainability to guarantee climate adaptation of future cities

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Silvia Coccolo, Amarasinghage Tharindu Dasun Perera, Vahid Moussavi Nik, Dasaraden Mauree, Emanuele Naboni

The current climate change is calling for a drastic reduction of energy demand as well as of greenhouse gases. Besides this, cities also need to adapt to face the challenges related to climate change. Cities, with their complex urban texture and fabric, ca ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2019

Integrating urban form and distributed energy systems: Assessment of sustainable development scenarios for a Swiss village to 2050

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Silvia Coccolo, Amarasinghage Tharindu Dasun Perera, Lucas Mosca, Nahid Mohajeri Pour Rayeni, Morgane Le Guen

The integration of renewable energy in the built environment, improving the energy efficiency of buildings, and optimizing distributed energy systems are three interconnected activities that are central for the transition to sustainable cities. Here, a met ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2019

The role of distributed energy systems in European energy transition

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Silvia Coccolo, Amarasinghage Tharindu Dasun Perera, Louis Marc Bruno Delannoy, Dasaraden Mauree, Salil Puri

This study presents a comprehensive analysis on the energy demand and supply of typical European city centers for present time and 2050 horizon according to the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC) climatic scenario A1B. Building and urban arc ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV2019

Towards a digital workflow to assess visual impact of solar modules and their operation within energy-hubs

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Silvia Coccolo, Amarasinghage Tharindu Dasun Perera, Pietro Florio

This study proposes an integrated methodology to assess the BIPV potential of existing urban neighborhoods, including social acceptance and grid infrastructure management issues; as a demonstration, a case study in Geneva, Switzerland is considered. In par ...

IOP Science2019

Mobile Urban Micrometeorological Monitoring (MUMiM)

Laurent Deschamps, Pierre Loesch, Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Paul Becquelin, Silvia Coccolo, Dasaraden Mauree

To understand the urban environment from a meteorological perspective in order to design better and more sustainable neighbourhoods, an open-source and low-cost meteorological device was developed and tested at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne ...

2019

A new clustering and visualization method to evaluate urban heat energy planning scenarios

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Silvia Coccolo, Dasaraden Mauree, Sara Torabi Moghadam

Spatial visualization is a very useful tool to help decision-makers in the urban planning process, i) to define future energy transition pathways, ii) to implement energy efficiency strategies and iii) to integrate renewable energy technologies in the cont ...

2019

The influence of urban form on the grid integration of renewable energy technologies and distributed energy systems

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Silvia Coccolo, Amarasinghage Tharindu Dasun Perera

Standard and newly designed building blocks for complex urban sites-also designated by urban archetypes - are used in this study to quantify the influence of urban forms on their energy demand and energy systems design. An energy hub, which consists on a m ...

Springer Nature2019

Urban greening archetypes at the European scale

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Silvia Coccolo, Amarasinghage Tharindu Dasun Perera, Nahid Mohajeri Pour Rayeni, Dasaraden Mauree, Ismaël Krafess, Cynthia Houmani

Urban greening has great ecological, social and economic benefits for the built environment. It also has significant impacts on the microclimate and urban energy balance. In this study, we quantify the impacts of urban greening on the ground surface temper ...

IOP Science2019

Study on the impact climate change on the resilience of the EPFL campus

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Silvia Coccolo, Amarasinghage Tharindu Dasun Perera, Dasaraden Mauree, Emanuele Naboni

2018

Outdoor comfort simulation of complex architectural designs: a review of simulation tools from the designer perspective

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Silvia Coccolo, Emanuele Naboni

The expanding design interest in outdoor comfort design is today supported by a few software tools. Given their different user-friendliness, modelling environments and simulation engines, a rational inquiry is how they are integrated into the digital desig ...

2018

Improving the energy sustainability of a Swiss village through building renovation and renewable energy integration

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Silvia Coccolo, Amarasinghage Tharindu Dasun Perera, Lucas Mosca, Nahid Mohajeri Pour Rayeni, Morgane Le Guen

The integration of renewable energy technologies and building renovation are the two main procedures for improving energy sustainability of buildings at neighborhood scale. It is difficult, however, to optimize these procedures simultaneously. This study f ...

Elsevier2018

Matching visual impact, solar energy production potential and energy system optimization for an enhanced solar integration. An experience with a novel pre-design tool

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Silvia Coccolo, Amarasinghage Tharindu Dasun Perera, Pietro Florio

This study focuses on developing a BIPV pre-design computational platform combining visual impact assessment, building simulation and energy system optimization. The outdoor exposed surface of a pavilion court building block is evaluated through a physiolo ...

2018

Cooling potential of greening in the urban environment, a step further towards practice

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Jérôme Henri Kämpf, Silvia Coccolo, Dasaraden Mauree

In the present century, for the first time in history, the urban population overpassed the rural one. Cities are growing, and their impact on the world energy balance is significant. Consequently, a sustainable urban environment focusing on the reduction o ...

2018

Quantifying the impact of urban climate by extending the boundaries of urban energy system modeling

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Silvia Coccolo, Amarasinghage Tharindu Dasun Perera, Dasaraden Mauree

2018