Fakultet for arkitektur og design (AD)
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Participatory Disaster Risk Reduction in Developing Countries
(Chapter, 2020)As conventional Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) in developing countries fails to create a real and long-lasting impact, a more community-based approach has emerged. However, even this approach struggles to be truly empowering ... -
Effects of retro-reflective and angular-selective retro-reflective materials on solar energy in urban canyons
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)The study deals with the application of retro-reflective (RR) and angular-selective retro-reflective (AS-RR) coatings on surfaces (i.e. the street ground and the south-exposed façade) within the urban canyon. Solar analyses ... -
Window Size Effects on Subjective Impressions of Daylit Spaces: Indoor Studies at High Latitudes Using Virtual Reality
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Daylight provision to the indoor space is affected by different building elements that cannot be fully controlled by the users, such as the window size of a space. The dimensions of the fenestration not only affect the ... -
ZEN og lovverket: Muligheter og begrensninger i dagens lovverk ved utvikling av et ZEN område
(ZEN Memo;, Research report, 2020)ZEN og lovverket: Muligheter og begrensninger i dagens lovverk ved utvikling av et ZEN område Forskningssenteret for nullutslippsområder i smarte byer (FME ZEN, www.fmezen.no) har som hovedmålsetting å utvikle løsninger ... -
Making Sense of the Urban Future: Recommendation Systems in Smart Cities
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)A large variety of Recommender Systems today can help users to understand and make sense of certain aspects of their cities, for example events, restaurants, government services, or transport.With the rise of the Smart ... -
Land use planning in disputed mountain areas: conflicting interests and common arenas
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Mountain areas are often subject to conflicts between different user interests and protection. The authors examine land use planning processes in Norway applied in accordance with the Planning and Building Act and the ... -
Exploring urban facilities management approaches to increase connectivity in smart cities
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Purpose The purpose of this study is to explore how the discipline facilities management (FM) can be developed in a smart city perspective through considering the current and new FM services under the role of Urban FM, as ... -
Bringing Reality Back to Virtual Reality - A Collaborative Tool for Multidisciplinary Teams
(Chapter, 2020)The use of Virtual Reality (VR) supports larger strategic goals in the industry, including the geographically diverse working markets, large-scale projects and increased collaboration, both locally and globally. At the ... -
Architectural quality and cultural heritage values in economic analysis
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)This article examines the evaluation of architectural quality in socioeconomic analyses of large public building projects in Norway. From a socio-economic perspective, a new building can be designed well or even better ... -
Predicting solar radiation using a parametric cloud model
(Chapter, 2020)In this paper, we evaluate a method to calculate hourly global solar radiation and improve the calculation of diffuse and vertical surface radiation on building facades by accounting for ground conditions based on publicly ... -
Participatory Design and Environmental Education in Visitor Centers: A Case Study from Nepal
(Chapter, 2020)This paper discusses how environmental education in visitor centers can be enhanced through participatory design approaches. Participatory design provides useful methods and tools to capture visitors’ diverse needs and ... -
Reuse principle for primary packaging circularity in the food system
(Chapter, 2020)The overall goal of this article is to explore how the circular economy reuse principle can transform the mainstream food system in order to reduce plastic waste from primary packaging. This paper reviews literature about ... -
Unmanned autonomous vessels and the necessity of human-centred design
(Chapter, 2020)Unmanned autonomous vessels are said to be the future of the shipping industry. Besides lowering cost and emissions, it is also said to lower the accidents attributed to human error completely. Still, the first unmanned ... -
Anthropology and Architecture: Motives and Ethics in Creating Knowledge
(Chapter, 2020)Traditionally, anthropology has sought to ensure social progress by means of knowledge, which implies that the creation of knowledge and social reform were seen as harmonious tasks. Architects share anthropologists’ interest ... -
Nytt blikk på medvirkningsprosesser i bærekraftig byutvikling
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Leve hele livet? Velferdsteknologiens rolle i nye boligformer for eldre
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)This article is about Care+ (Omsorg+), which is a new care-home concept for the elderly, in which technologies, such as tablets, telecare and smarthome solutions, are integrated. The technologies are expected to support ... -
Unmanned autonomous vessels and the necessity of human-centred design
(Chapter, 2020)Unmanned autonomous vessels are said to be the future of the shipping industry. Besides lowering cost and emissions, it is also said to lower the accidents attributed to human error completely. Still, the first unmanned ... -
Participatory Design and Environmental Education in Visitor Centers: A Case Study from Nepal
(Chapter, 2020)This paper discusses how environmental education in visitor centers can be enhanced through participatory design approaches. Participatory design provides useful methods and tools to capture visitors’ diverse needs and ... -
Food Waste: A practice-oriented design for sustainability approach
(Doctoral theses at NTNU, 2020:177, Doctoral thesis, 2020)Summary of the thesis This dissertation develops a practice-oriented design for sustainability (PODS) approach to explore opportunities for reducing household food waste by design. Through this approach it has produced ... -
The potential of geospatial analysis and Bayesian networks to enable i-Tree Eco assessment of existing tree inventories
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Valuing the ecosystem services of urban trees is important for gaining public and political support for urban tree conservation and maintenance. The i-Tree Eco software application can be used to estimate regulating ecosystem ...
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