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Urban Vitality Survey

This study aims to understand how urban residents in Singapore and Zurich experience urban vitality and the attributes of the public environment that are critical to the production of urban vitality in densifying cities. In this blog post, participants of the online survey may retrieve information about updates and outcome of this study.

Read more Published 29. November 2024 (Updated 4 days ago)

Urban Vitality Survey

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CACTUS

CACTUS (Comprehensive Assessment and Computational Toolset for Urban Solar) is a Python-based set of tools and workflows for analysing integrated photovotlaic arrays. The repository provides a set of established workflows to move from low level of detail geometry and descriptive data through the automatic design of an array and the IV-based calculation of that array.

Read more Published 11. October 2024 (Updated 1 month ago)

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Explore RISE

RISE (Repository for Integrated Solar Energy) contains a database of integrated photovoltaic projects around the world. With each project you will find key performance metrics and images, as well as a link for further information.

Read more Published 09. October 2024 (Updated 1 month ago)

Explore RISE

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Bombyx / Hive

Bombyx and Hive are Rhino Grasshopper tools for the assessment of embodied emissions (LCA) and energy. The combination of both tools offers a powerful, integrated workflow for architects and engineers to evaluate both operational and embodied emissions during the early stages of design.

Read more Published 09. October 2024 (Updated 1 month ago)

Bombyx / Hive

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Community Solar

Community solar (CS) involves the use of shared solar photovoltaic and energy storage systems within a local community, a concept that has grown in popularity in recent years. In this project, we aim to facilitate the coordination of decentralized CS investments through dynamic pricing and to improve the performance of CS by implementing land use regulation controls.

Read more Published 09. October 2024 (Updated 1 month ago)

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Segment for Solar (S4S)

Segment for Solar Facades (S4S) is a tool that utilizes instance segmentation methods to accurately estimate the solar energy potential of building facades. Facades vary greatly in their design, and the placement of solar panels must be tailored to each application. S4S takes into account the architectural details and variations of facades, providing a more accurate assessment of their solar potential.

Read more Published 09. October 2024 (Updated 1 month ago)

Segment for Solar (S4S)

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Panelizer

Automatic facade panelization tool for optimal BIPV layouts, based on underlying high-resolution cell simulations.

Read more Published 09. October 2024 (Updated 1 month ago)

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ACACIA

ACACIA (parAmetric Configurator for A photovoltaiC life cycle Impact Assessment) is a web-based tool that lets you customize solar panels and instantly calculate their environmental impact across 14 key categories, including GWP and human toxicity. Architects, engineers, and planners can now make environmentally-informed decisions for sustainable PV design, all with real-time feedback on their choices.

Read more Published 09. October 2024 (Updated 1 month ago)

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Solar-EV-Charging

Solar-EV-Charging aims at integrating Electric Vehicles (EVs) to enhance the deployment of Photovoltaic (PV) systems in tropical Singapore. Leveraging a large-scale GPS-based mobile phone dataset, EV mobility patterns across Singapore are predicted, with detailed views zooming into specific communities. Aligning with localized PV energy potentials, EVs can thus be optimally used as time and spatially dynamic batteries.

Read more Published 09. October 2024 (Updated 1 month ago)

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SolarGAN

Assessing solar irradiance on facades is challenging due to complex urban features. SolarGAN helps by introducing a Deep Learning model that generates stochastic solar irradiance time series from simple fisheye images, offering a faster, data-driven alternative to labor-intensive simulations for robust BIPV energy system design.

Read more Published 09. October 2024 (Updated 1 month ago)

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Thermal VR

Thermal VR is an innovative system that integrates thermal feedback into virtual reality environments to enhance architectural design processes. By combining heat emitters with VR goggles, the system allows the user to experience both the thermal and visual aspects of architectural designs, offering a more immersive and intuitive evaluation. This approach, tested in virtual office settings, demonstrates the potential for climate-aware design.

Read more Published 09. October 2024 (Updated 1 month ago)

Thermal VR

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A better designed Singapore, from bicycle paths to sustainability

A Business Insider story on Singapore quotes Prof. Dr Thomas Schroepfer, Director, FCL Global, on improving the city with bicycle paths and future-proofing Singapore from future challenges.

Read more Published 03. August 2024

A better designed Singapore, from bicycle paths to sustainability

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Prof. Dr Stefanie Hellweg Receives SETAC Lifetime Achievement Award

Prof. Dr Stefanie Hellweg, Future Cities Laboratory's PI for CFC, has been awarded the SETAC Europe Award for Lifetime Achievement in Life Cycle Assessment.

Read more Published 05. July 2024

Prof. Dr Stefanie Hellweg Receives SETAC Lifetime Achievement Award

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Dr Julio Paulos elected to the Swiss Young Academy

Dr Julio Paulos will serve a five-year term at the Swiss Young Academy, which gives a voice to young academics in Switzerland.  

Read more Published 05. June 2024

Dr Julio Paulos elected to the Swiss Young Academy

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FCL Global meets Dr Alfonso Vegara in Zurich

FCL Global gave Dr Alfonso Vegara a tour of the Arch-Tech lab and introduced him to programme's research activities.

Read more Published 21. May 2024

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Fewer utopias, more concrete solutions

FCL Global Executive Director Prof. Sacha Menz and the programme were featured in NZZ’s biannual special issue.  

Read more Published 03. May 2024

Fewer utopias, more concrete solutions

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Future cities, future ideas – A summary of the FCL Global Conference 2023

Missed the conference? Access resources and recordings of keynote speakers and their insights in this summary.

Read more Published 31. December 2023

Future cities, future ideas – A summary of the FCL Global Conference 2023

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Vertical Cities: Emergent movement and use patterns in dense vertically integrated urban spaces

This FCL Global-led paper uses Kampung Admiralty as a case study to explore the user-space interactions in complex and vertically integrated urban built environments, for effective future planning and design.

Read more Published 11. August 2023

Vertical Cities: Emergent movement and use patterns in dense vertically integrated urban spaces

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Network science-based analysis of urban green spaces in Singapore

Using Spatial Network Analysis, FCL Global researchers investigate the spatial configuration of urban green spaces on pedestrian movement at one-north Park and Jurong Lakeside Garden.

Read more Published 01. August 2023

Network science-based analysis of urban green spaces in Singapore

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Not just a walk in the park

Anjanaa Devi Srikanth of FCL Global uses Spatial Network Analysis and empirical pedestrian movement datasets to study pedestrian movement patterns in one-north Park in Singapore.

Read more Published 08. May 2023

Not just a walk in the park

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Understanding mixed-use zoning types in Singapore through Google Maps data

FCL researchers publish a method to define representative archetypes of mixed use developments in Singapore, to improve the accuracy of urban data analyses and simulations.

Read more Published 05. January 2023

Understanding mixed-use zoning types in Singapore through Google Maps data

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