Publications de Sergi Aguacil Moreno

Regeneration of Urban Areas: From Neighbourhoods in Transition to Innovative Components

Emmanuel Rey, Aleksis Dind, Sara Sonia Formery Regazzoni, Pascal Pierre Michon, Clément Cattin, Martine Laprise, Sergi Aguacil Moreno, Judith Elisa Drouilles

Research at the Laboratory of Architecture and Sustainable Technologies (LAST) at EPFL aims to explore the interactions between architectural design and transitions towards sustainability in the built environment. This concerns as much the polycentric rest ...

Lars Müller Publishers2025

The Effect of Rivers on Energy Balance at the Neighborhood Scale. A comparative analysis of four Rhodanian sites in France and Switzerland

Emmanuel Rey, Sara Sonia Formery Regazzoni, Martine Laprise, Sergi Aguacil Moreno

This research aims to compare the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of new neighbourhood projects near the Rhône River in France and Switzerland. The study considers the influence of the river on energy demand and resilience to climate change of 12 project-ba ...

Wrocław University of Science and Technology Publishing House2024

Virtual Tours as Effective Complement to Building Information Models in Computer-Aided Facility Management Using Internet of Things

Laurent Deschamps, Sebastian Duque Mahecha, Sergi Aguacil Moreno

This study investigates the integration of Building Information Models (BIMs) and Virtual Tour (VT) environments in the Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) industry, focusing on Computer-Aided Facility Management (CAFM), Computerized Maintenan ...

MDPI AG2024

Designing with building-integrated photovoltaics (BIPV): A pathway to decarbonize residential buildings

Emmanuel Rey, Sophie Lufkin, Sebastian Duque Mahecha, Sergi Aguacil Moreno

The ambitious targets set for greenhouse gas emissions and energy efficiency by 2050 demand a critical increase of building renovation rates. This challenge is shared by most Western nations, including Europe and Switzerland, where the current annual renov ...

Elsevier BV2024

Taking a step back from glass towers facades to make them compatible with the 2050 targets

Bernard Paule, Sergi Aguacil Moreno

Skyscrapers or glass towers are an extremely common model throughout the world. In the current context of climate change and resource depletion, we need to develop new postures towards these objects, especially for existing buildings that are becoming obso ...

2023

Autodigit-RAD: Towards an automation of the radon’s concentration dataflow in a new and innovative building

Sebastian Duque Mahecha, Sergi Aguacil Moreno

Radon is a noble, natural, and radioactive gas coming mainly from the ground which might accumulate indoors and lead each year to 200-300 deaths from lung cancer in Switzerland. A brand new and innovative living lab will be built as of 2023 in Fribourg (Sw ...

2023

Influence of future climate scenarios on the sizing of Building-Integrated Photovoltaics (BIPV) installations. Case study of a new research-center building in Switzerland

Sergi Aguacil Moreno

This paper analyzes the findings obtained when applying a multi-criteria performance-based method for sizing a BIPV installation considering different weather files, representing historical data (TMY; typical meteorological year) and prospective data (thre ...

2023

Le défi environnemental d’un quartier périurbain à l’horizon 2050

Emmanuel Rey, Sergi Aguacil Moreno

Par leur faible densité et leur plus forte dépendance à l’automobile, les habitats périurbains présentent actuellement de sérieuses lacunes en matière de durabilité et de multiples études ont mis en évidence que leur impact environnemental est généralement ...

Presses polytechniques et universitaires romandes2022

Integration of Indoor Air Quality Prediction into Healthy Building Design

Sebastian Duque Mahecha, Sergi Aguacil Moreno, Dusan Licina, Shen Yang

Healthy building design is an emerging field of architecture and building engineering. Indoor air quality (IAQ) is an inevitable factor that should be considered in healthy building design due to its demonstrated links with human health and well-being. Thi ...

MDPI2022

Sustainable Construction in Humanitarian. Action Criteria for humanitarian building sustainability

Sebastian Duque Mahecha, Sergi Aguacil Moreno, André Ullal, Guillaume Habert

Humanitarian organisations have an interest in improving the sustainability of buildings that support the assistance provided to people affected by conflict and disaster. Yet, usual means of assessing building sustainability - e.g., labels such as LEED and ...

2022

Building-integrated photovoltaics (BIPV) combined with hydrogen-based electricity storage system at building-scale towards carbon neutrality

Sergi Aguacil Moreno

Electricity storage technologies in buildings are evolving, mainly to reduce their environmental impact and to improve self-sufficiency of buildings that produce their own energy through Building-Integrated Photovoltaics (BIPV) installations. To maximize s ...

Czech Technical University2022

Comparing thermal performance of standard humanitarian tents

Paolo Tombesi, Sergi Aguacil Moreno, Dusan Licina, Riccardo Vannucci, André Ullal, Shen Yang

Humanitarian tents provide emergency shelter for people displaced by conflict and disaster in diverse climatic conditions. This article compares the thermal performance of two standard humanitarian tents – the Standard Family Tent (SFT) and the Geodesic Fa ...

2022

Comparative approach of the environmental impact induced by different architectural visions of a new periurban neighbourhood

Emmanuel Rey, Sophie Lufkin, Martine Laprise, Sergi Aguacil Moreno

The objective of this research work is to compare the environmental impact, expressed in terms of non-renewable cumulative energy demand (CEDnr) and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, of nine architectural visions for a new neighbourhood located in the periur ...

2022

Living Periphery

Emmanuel Rey, Sophie Lufkin, Frédéric Frank, Sara Sonia Formery Regazzoni, Martine Laprise, Sergi Aguacil Moreno, Judith Elisa Drouilles

Entre ville et campagne, les périphéries urbaines constituent un défi particulier dans le contexte de la transition. Éloignées de la dynamique de densification en cours dans les espaces centraux, elles représentent néanmoins une part non négligeable de l’e ...

Presses polytechniques et universitaires romandes2022

Virtual reality enabled building-data management through the combination of a fully integrated IFC-BIM model and an IoT-based building management system

Laurent Deschamps, Jean-Philippe Bacher, Sebastian Duque Mahecha, Sergi Aguacil Moreno, Alexandre Denis Stoll

Professionals involved in building construction and monitoring increasingly implement new practices made available by Building Information Modelling (BIM), Virtual Reality (VR) and the Internet of Things (IoT). In spite of numerous efforts, most methods in ...

2021

Texture mapping and IFC material retrievement for virtual reality applications

Laurent Deschamps, Sebastian Duque Mahecha, Sergi Aguacil Moreno, Alexandre Denis Stoll

Most current software support the Industry Foundation Classes (IFC) transfer of Building Information Models (BIMs) to applications enabling Virtual Reality (VR) navigation (BuildingSMART, 2020; Kiviniemi, Tarandi, Karlshøj, Bell, and Karud, 2008; Poljanšek ...

2021

Life cycle efficiency of solar shading systems: a proof-of-concept

Marilyne Andersen, Sergi Aguacil Moreno, Thomas Bernard Paul Jusselme, Nazanin Rezaei Oghazi

Solar control strategies are essential for the glare control and decreasing cooling needs or overheating risks (in the absence of active cooling system), however, they come with their own embodied energy. With the carbon neutrality objective looking at the ...

2021

Exploring easy-implementable adaptation strategies to climate change scenarios of existing office buildings: a case study in the Swiss context

Sergi Aguacil Moreno, Cecile Anne Berquand, Dolaana Khovalyg, Verena Marie Barthelmes

European energy policies are aimed at increasing the climate resilience of infrastructure, including new and existing buildings. The implications of future ambient conditions on the energy and environmental performance in buildings and respective adaptatio ...

2021

Hydrogen-based electricity storage optimization on buildings by coupling thermal and photovoltaic electricity production towards carbon neutrality

Philippe Couty, Sergi Aguacil Moreno

Self-sufficiency (SS) of buildings with low greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions can be obtained using photovoltaics (PV). To maximize self-consumption - minimizing the import of grid electricity - PV can be coupled with a hydrogen storage system converting the ...

2021

A performance-driven simulation workflow for PV integration into the design process: application on an innovative building project in Switzerland

Sergi Aguacil Moreno

In the construction sector, the integration of active elements functioning both as building envelope material and on-site electricity generator is identified as a key measure to achieve the 2050 targets and carbon neutrality (Aguacil Moreno, 2019; Aguacil ...

2021