Issues pertaining to comfort in architecture have gained great importance in the last few decades because of their significant influence on people’s satisfaction and productivity and on the overall building energy management. Yet, despite numerous efforts in developing predictive models, human perception of comfort still poses important challenges during the design process, both at the research and professional levels.

Through human-centered experimentations and building performance simulations, LIPID contributes in the acquisition of new knowledge about the main environmental parameters that have an impact on comfort, with a major focus on thermal and visual factors. In this way, the research provides new insights into suitable design strategies and models to support the design process in achieving a comfortable and sustainable built environment.

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2023

Traversing Time Dependent Light Fields for Daylight Glare Evaluation

S. W. Wasilewski / M. Andersen; J. Wienold (Dir.)

Lausanne, EPFL, 2023.

2023

Traversing Time Dependent Light Fields for Daylight Glare Evaluation

2022

Effect of window glazing color and transmittance on human visual comfort

Window View Quality: Why It Matters and What We Should Do

Visual comfort without borders: Extending daylight glare prediction to dim daylit environments

Efficient Simulation for Visual Comfort Evaluations

The influence of façade and space design on building occupants’ indoor experience

2021

Does glazing color influence our perception of discomfort glare from daylight?

Glare assessment in a daylit workplace from a physiological perspective

Field evaluation of thermal and acoustical comfort in eight North-American buildings using embedded radiant systems

Raytraverse: Navigating the Lightfield to Enhance Climate-Based Daylight Modeling

Human thermal perception and time of day: A review

Effect of Indoor Temperature and Glazing with Saturated Color on Visual Perception of Daylight

Calibration and Validation of Climate-Based Daylighting Models Based on One-Time Field Measurements: Office Buildings in the Tropics

2020

A multi-domain data collection strategy for capturing relationships between occupant behaviour, comfort, indoor environment, and energy use in office

2019

Daylight affects human thermal perception

Influence of indoor temperature and daylight illuminance on visual perception

Cross-validation and robustness of daylight glare metrics

Building energy certification versus user satisfaction with the indoor environment: Findings from a multi-site post-occupancy evaluation (POE) in Switzerland

Low-carbon thermal inertia

Energy performance and occupancy-based analysis of visual and thermal comfort for transmittance level and layout variations of semi-transparent photovoltaics

Daylight and temperature in buildings: interaction effects on human responses

2018

The Effect of Coloured Glazing on Thermal, Visual and Overall Comfort Evaluation

Combined effects of daylight transmitted through coloured glazing and indoor temperature on thermal responses and overall comfort

Comfort, climatic background and adaptation time: first insights from a post-occupancy evaluation in multicultural workplaces

Visual-Thermal comfort evaluation and comparison: application to an open-space office

Occupant Satisfaction in 60 Radiant and All-air Building

2017

Luminance maps from High Dynamic Range imaging: calibrations and adjustments for visual comfort assessment

Investigation of different subjective response scales for thermal comfort analysis: Likert-type and visual analogue scales

Effects of visual and thermal stimuli interactions on comfort perception

Discomfort glare perception in daylighting: influencing factors

“Our Inherent Desire for Control”: a Case Study of Automation’s Impact on the Perception of Comfort

The effect of short exposure to coloured light on thermal perception: a study using Virtual Reality

Exploring the influence of contemporary facade design on occupant satisfaction: a preliminary study in office buildings

The effects of vegetation on indoor thermal comfort: the application of a multi-scale simulation methodology on a residential neighborhood renovation case study

A human-centric approach to assess daylight in buildings for non-visual health potential, visual interest and gaze behavior

Gaze and discomfort glare, Part 1: Development of a gaze-driven photometry

2016

A preliminary study on the sensitivity of people to visual and thermal parameters in office environments

Photovoltaics integration in the Solar Decathlon pavilion : Assessing the implication of transparent BIPV with DSC technology on the indoor comfort and energy performance

Assessing the bioclimatic features of historic architecture in contemporary cities

Assessing the impact of contemporary urbanization on bioclimatic features of historic architecture through a two-step simulation process

2015

Sustainable Social Housing in Temperate Areas. Italy and Brazil: the use of vegetation as a retrofit strategy

Adaptive visual and thermal comfort

2013

Human Response in Daylit Spaces

Lightsolve – a full-year goal-based tool for daylighting performance evaluation

Human-Driven Daylighting: research perspectives and outlook

2012

Influence of shading control patterns on the energy assessment of office spaces

2009

The Adaptation of Daylight Glare Probability to Dynamic Metrics in a Computational Setting

2002

Light distribution through advanced fenestration systems