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Item Restricted Biomimicry : The Complexity of Nature Morphology to Enhance the Energy Efficiency of 20th Century Built Heritage Interiors(2021) Alves, Alberto; bachelor thesis inMACHINE-GENERATED SUMMARY NOTE : The construction industry is known to have an enormous and detrimental impacts on the environment such as high energy consumptions, degradation of natural resources, among others. Sustainability has become, however, responsible for diminishing these impacts accomplishing balances between the built environment and the ecosystem. The inquiry for sustainable responses to human challenges increased exponentially, consequently, fomented different professional fields to learn from nature's 3.8 billion years of experience. Hence, the origin of Biomimicry, the design inspired by the way biology has been solving functional challenges that proffer sustainable solutions to human issues. Biomimicry is not a romantic allusion to some intangible Arcadia, it is, however, one of the best sources of solutions that allows humankind to flourish in balance with the biosphere making the shift from industrial to ecological age. The purpose of this research is to examine Biomimicry principles and their implementation to balance 20th century building conservation, energy efficiency and user's comfortItem Restricted Preserving, exposing, adapting : modernising historic structures with the respect of materiality and heritage(2020) Nylund, Paula Emma; Martín, Javier; Starck, Adrian von; bachelor thesis in Interior Design"Society is facing one of its biggest challenges of the century: The loss of identity of urban areas. With the world's population constantly growing, the need for new buildings are constantly increasing. About 8 billion people populate the planet in 2020. This number has more than doubled within the last 60 years. With this intense need for space, some are resorting to drastic measures. Old, historic structures (from before the industrialisation), that seem unusable are being torn down and replaced by new, modern structures. These actions cause towns to lose their identity by replacing traditional architecture with modern structures. The optical values might not be the only things that are lost when a structure is torn down. Its materiality might also be demolished in the process. Nevertheless, it seems as if the way people used to populate houses does not suit modern architectural needs. Rooms are too small, modern technology is missing and too few windows exist, are just a few of the issues that seem unsolvable within old structures. Is there no way to conserve existing structures while modernising them at the same time? This research analyses a proposed 3-step approach to find a solution on how to conserve historic structures while respecting the materiality and heritage, while at the same time modernising them to today's architectural needs. By combining three conservational philosophies: 'preservation', 'exposure' and 'adaptation', one might find a suitable solution to keep the heritage of a building while satisfying modern architectural needs. This approach has been applied to an apartment of a building from 1545 and gives insights to technical installations and conservational methods to verify the proposed solution."Item Restricted Reimagining the interior architecture of Albanian Hammam baths : identifying design strategies in the adaptive reuse of Bazaar's Hammam(2020) Stafa, Bora; Larsen, Sigurd; Pöğün-Zander, Yüksel; master's thesis in Interior Design"This research thesis explores the architecture of Hammam typology and proposes a strategy of adaptive reuse to save these buildings upon a specific region, in Albania. Hammam structures, which used to combine daily and sacred life by providing water to support body and soul, should be regarded as gems of cultural heritage that reconnect people to their past but also to their future. After the introduction aiming to present the reader with the research aim and methodology, a short historic architectural overview is done. Two of the most representative cases of Albanian Hammam typologies still exist, in the city of Elbasan, although abandoned and forgotten in time. The research addresses two consequences of the historical heritage Hammam's development. Firstly, the way in which Hammam's heritage has been leftover and is being demolished; secondly, the need to rebuild heritage and community without any loss of identity in the city. The research leads to a design project exemplifying the adaptive re-use approach, when dealing with a historical structure, witnessing cultural values. Remodeling and alterations are necessary to result in new possibilities of saving these structures from degradation and complete demolition. The attempt of the research, as well as the project, is to re-imagine the interior qualities of Hammam in the present time."