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    Architecture

    10 research topics · 24 questions

    Performance Transferability of Passive Buildings in Different Climate Zones3 questions

    1. Experimental and practical viability of the Passivhaus standard in hot-humid tropical housing: validating the uninsulated ground floor as a cooling-season heat sink and the ground-coupled and economic feasibility questions it raises

    2. Reliable mitigation of summertime overheating and adaptive-comfort compliance for passive houses in subtropical climates

    3. Unresolved building-services barriers to Passive House deployment in extreme climates: frost-safe combined heat-and-humidity recovery for very cold climates, low-temperature supply-air dehumidification for hot-humid climates, and moisture-safe basements

    Daylighting–Cooling Load Paradox in Energy Optimization of Glass Curtain Walls1 questions

    1. Adaptive shading operation and glare-inclusive validation of side-lit window optima for university classrooms in Shanghai's hot-summer/cold-winter climate

    Instability of Multi-Objective Solutions in Parametric Design Search2 questions

    1. Generalizing the Uncertainty-related Pareto Front (UPF) framework to general uncertain multi-objective optimization

    2. Generalization and reliability of field-grouped two-stage sequential multi-objective optimization for building performance design

    Trade-Off Between Core Tube Efficiency and Evacuation Redundancy in High-Rise Residential Buildings1 questions

    1. Validated escape-route design and evacuation modelling for Malaysian public multi-storey housing: generalising staircase availability, position, and blockage effects beyond a single PPR layout

    Rebound Effects of Building Energy Consumption Eroding Savings from Energy Renovation2 questions

    1. Validating rebound-effect estimation for thermally retrofitted non-residential public service buildings: theory, measurement, benchmarks, and long-run dynamics

    2. Causal attribution, end-use decomposition, direct and indirect rebound, and multi-season persistence of household energy savings after residential retrofit

    The Non-monotonic Relationship Between Building Form Compactness and Life-cycle Carbon Emissions4 questions

    1. Is whole-life-cycle carbon a non-monotonic function of building-form compactness? Characterizing the embodied–operational balance across building and urban-block scales

    2. Causal attribution and external validity of the non-monotonic urban density–spatial carbon performance relation in Chinese megacities

    3. Temporal stability, cross-city generalizability, and energy-accounting completeness of block-scale density effects on urban carbon emission intensity

    4. Generalizing the relation between building-shape compactness and embodied energy and carbon: parameterized inventories, geometry-driven structural dimensioning, and combined embodied–operational assessment beyond one construction system and country

    Can Space Syntax Metrics Reliably Predict Actual Human Flow?2 questions

    1. Transferable pedestrian-flow prediction in traditional commercial streets: validating combined space-syntax and business-attraction models, and the conditions under which configuration or attraction dominates

    2. Enriching and validating urban-scale agent-based space-syntax pedestrian-volume models across diverse urban morphologies

    The Authenticity–Energy Efficiency Conflict in Adaptive Reuse of Historic Buildings4 questions

    1. Transferability and extension of an integrated multi-criteria methodology for energy-efficient retrofit of heritage-building envelopes beyond a single case study

    2. Heritage-compatible reduction of post-adaptive-reuse operational energy, carbon, and summer discomfort in historic buildings: validated intervention strategies and generalisable retrofit guidance integrating occupant comfort perception

    3. Joint optimization of heating and cooling energy use and thermal comfort in adaptively reused historic buildings under rigid heritage-conservation constraints

    4. Monitored energy-efficiency retrofits and predictive modelling of the user-assigned-value–energy-behaviour–physical-condition interplay in heritage buildings

    Performance Gap Between Natural Ventilation Model Predictions and Actual Building Energy Consumption1 questions

    1. Attributing over-prediction of buoyancy-driven natural ventilation in whole-building simulation: model form versus input uncertainty in multi-story, atrium-connected buildings

    Systematic Sources of Inconsistencies Between BIM Models and As-built Information4 questions

    1. Quantitative evaluation of Scan-to-BIM modelling workflows: modeller training for secondary objects and hybrid manual-semi-automated modelling

    2. Post-mandate reassessment of final-drawing versus as-built mismatches in Dubai buildings: has mandatory BIM eliminated the mismatch problem measured in 2014?

    3. Allowable-error budgets for on-site scan-versus-CAD dimensional inspection of industrial plant piping systems

    4. Generalizable, project-independent causes of tolerance-related defects in construction

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