scholarly journals Sheep Wool for Sustainable Architecture

2015 ◽  
Vol 78 ◽  
pp. 315-320 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniela Bosia ◽  
Lorenzo Savio ◽  
Francesca Thiebat ◽  
Alessia Patrucco ◽  
Stefano Fantucci ◽  
...  



2020 ◽  
Vol 46 ◽  
pp. 410-417 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andreea Hegyi ◽  
Carmen Dico ◽  
Henriette Szilagyi


2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (15) ◽  
pp. 8166
Author(s):  
Jean-Pierre Chupin ◽  
Morteza Hazbei ◽  
Karl-Antoine Pelchat

This article explores a trend provisionally called “eco-didacticism” observable for nearly 15 years in art, design and architecture. The corpus concentrates on learning centres as buildings meant to diffuse advanced knowledge in the field of sustainable architecture. We found evidence of additional educational intentions to the pedagogical or scientific programs that these buildings have already been mandated to host and support. A variety of practices or devices have sometimes been added to the architecture, sometimes integrated, while others determine the overall structuring of these educational buildings. Seven cases of “learning centres” built in Canada between 2004 and 2018 have been screened through three epistemological filters distinguishing forms of “architectural didactics”: 1—a labeling often quantitative approach, 2—an experiential or practical approach, 3—a visually narrative or iconic approach. While outlining definitions of these Architectural Educational Strategies (AES), we offer initial explanations for their distinctive features. It appears that architects, designers and critics altogether operate on the belief that forms of architectural communication can operate as elements of a language that would be accessible to non-experts. Our conclusion indicates how future research could question the very possibility of giving lessons through formal language and aesthetic features.





Materials ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (9) ◽  
pp. 2443
Author(s):  
Andreea Hegyi ◽  
Cezar Bulacu ◽  
Henriette Szilagyi ◽  
Adrian-Victor Lăzărescu ◽  
Vasile Meiţă ◽  
...  

Currently, the need to ensure adequate quality of air inside the living space but also the thermal efficiency of buildings is pressing. This paper presents the capacity of sheep wool heat-insulating mattresses to simultaneously provide these needs, cumulatively analyzing efficiency indicators for thermal insulation and indicators of improving air quality. Thus, the values obtained for the coefficient of thermal conductivity, and its resistance to heat transfer, demonstrate the suitability of their use for thermal insulation. The results of the permeability to water vapor characteristics on the sorption/desorption of water, air, demonstrate the ability to control the humidity of the indoor air and the results on the reduction of the concentration of formaldehyde, demonstrating their contribution to the growth of the quality of the air, and to reduce the risk of disease in the population.



2021 ◽  
Vol 1763 (1) ◽  
pp. 012009
Author(s):  
S Enkhzaya ◽  
H Matsune ◽  
K Shiomori ◽  
B Oyuntsetseg


Polymers ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (11) ◽  
pp. 2523
Author(s):  
Franciszek Pawlak ◽  
Miguel Aldas ◽  
Francisco Parres ◽  
Juan López-Martínez ◽  
Marina Patricia Arrieta

Poly(lactic acid) (PLA) was plasticized with maleinized linseed oil (MLO) and further reinforced with sheep wool fibers recovered from the dairy industry. The wool fibers were firstly functionalized with 1 and 2.5 phr of tris(2-methoxyethoxy)(vinyl) (TVS) silane coupling agent and were further used in 1, 5, and 10 phr to reinforce the PLA/MLO matrix. Then, the composite materials were processed by extrusion, followed by injection-molding processes. The mechanical, thermal, microstructural, and surface properties were assessed. While the addition of untreated wool fibers to the plasticized PLA/MLO matrix caused a general decrease in the mechanical properties, the TVS treatment was able to slightly compensate for such mechanical losses. Additionally, a shift in cold crystallization and a decrease in the degree of crystallization were observed due to the fiber silane modification. The microstructural analysis confirmed enhanced interaction between silane-modified fibers and the polymeric matrix. The inclusion of the fiber into the PLA/MLO matrix made the obtained material more hydrophobic, while the yellowish color of the material increased with the fiber content.



1968 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 34-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. G. Simmonds ◽  
D. W. Nooner ◽  
A. Zlatkis ◽  
J. Oro
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2011 ◽  
Vol 71-78 ◽  
pp. 5003-5006
Author(s):  
N. Utaberta ◽  
B. Hassanpour ◽  
Nag Abdullah ◽  
M. Tahir ◽  
Ai. Che Ani

Education is completely linked by spiritual and mental aspects and has direct effect on thoughts and ideas; even it can make a pattern and line behavior for humans’ life. Indeed if educating system be able to has a positive impact on its’ inputs, then it can import its influence to the whole society by its outputs which their number is not less. Especially in art and architecture this influence would be multiple and multilateral, because students are the future designers and peoples’ life will be influenced by them. So we ought to pay more attention to education phenomenon. Limited natural sources and the destructive effects on next generations’ portion attracted the attention of all sciences and different professional majors to find how to generate new sources of energy that they called Sustainable. Architecture as a linked field to other knowledge and sciences was not excepted and like past periods of history, tried to find best solutions and appropriate responses. Today, the definition of sustainable and the domain of it have developed and it is known in vast meanings and categories. Education is one of these categories that it has to be containing the word, sustainable. Sustainable education as a first stage of attitude and effect on future can play an important role. Sustainable Architectural Education and try to trace methods of sustainable architectural education is the target of this paper.



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