Designer solar: New tool unlocks smart solar design
Designing buildings with solar cleverly incorporated into the design has just become easier, thanks to software developed at RMIT University.
Oct 9, 2023
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New research describes sustainable alternative to air conditioning
As the planet gets hotter, the need for cool living environments is becoming more urgent. But air conditioning is a major contributor to global warming since units use potent greenhouse gases and lots of energy.
Sep 25, 2023
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Opinion: Architects should use opportunities to make spaces that benefit all forms of life
Have you ever dreamed of having your own Grand Designs moment? An opportunity to live in a space designed for you, perfectly fitting your lifestyle, needs and daily routines.
Apr 24, 2023
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Creating buildings with an ecological envelope
Nature in city environs has a positive effect on people's well-being. At the same time, biological diversity in urban areas continues to shrink, for example, because of increasing building density. In the Ecolopes project, ...
Dec 8, 2022
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This new computer chip is ideal for AI
Artificial intelligence presents a major challenge to conventional computing architecture. In standard models, memory storage and computing take place in different parts of the machine, and data must move from its area of ...
Oct 3, 2022
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Using nature's structures in wooden buildings
Concern about climate change has focused significant attention on the buildings sector, in particular on the extraction and processing of construction materials. The concrete and steel industries together are responsible ...
Mar 9, 2022
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A language learning system that pays attention more efficiently than ever before
Human language can be inefficient. Some words are vital. Others, expendable.
Feb 10, 2021
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Smiles beam and walls blush: Architecture meets AI at Microsoft
Jenny Sabin is perched high on a scissor lift, her head poking through an opening of the porous fabric structure that she's struggling to stretch onto the exoskeleton of her installation piece, which is suspended in the airy ...
Oct 10, 2019
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Hyperbolic paraboloid origami harnesses bistability to enable new applications
While perhaps not as iconic as the paper crane, the hypar origami with its sweeping opposing arcs and saddle shape has long been popular for artists working in the paper folding tradition.
Sep 17, 2019
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How do we design buildings that enable occupants to thrive?
Americans spend 87 percent of their time indoors, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
Jul 24, 2019
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