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Standard freeway merge designs support safer driver behaviour compared to taper designs: a driving simulator study Universiteit Hasselt
Road geometric design standards provide various possibilities for merging freeways with a decreasing number of lanes. In this study, an alternative design (i.e. taper design) is investigated and compared with the standard design under three different heavy vehicle compositions to understand driving performance in relation to the flow of traffic. Taper design is not always the first choice in the road geometric design guidelines and the designer ...
Safety by natural design: benign bisphenols from biomass KU Leuven
Synthetic polymers are crucial in maintenance of our high standard of living. While delivering many benefits, our current plastics economy has also led to one of the greatest environmental scourges of our time. Plastic pollution is now widespread and leads to substantial chemical exposure to humans and the environment. Within this context, especially endocrine-disrupting chemicals with high production volumes, such as bisphenols, are a major ...
Rethinking children's roles in participatory design: The child as a process designer KU Leuven
Although children’s roles in Participatory Design (PD) processes have been more or less stable for the last two decades, the recent academic debates have urged us to rethink these traditional roles in order to aim for genuine forms of participation. In this article, we feed this discussion by exploring a play perspective towards the role of children in a PD process. We report on a case study in which we co-designed workshops together with 60 ...
From design for one to open-ended design : experiments on understanding how to open-up contextual design solutions Universiteit Gent
From Design for One to Open-ended Design. Experiments on understanding how to open-up contextual design solutions. Universiteit Gent
Design guidance for low-energy dwellings in early design phases: development of a simple design support tool in SketchUp Universiteit Hasselt KU Leuven
Considering the energy efficiency and comfort levels of dwellings, stricter legislation will be applied towards 2020. To reach these requirements, an insight into the energy efficiency becomes essential mainly due to the complexity of these tools. Therefore, this research aims at early design support through an easy-to-use application adapted to the modelling logic of a designer. As architects often use simple CAAD design tools for design ...
“Design for All” manual: from users’ needs to inclusive design strategies Universiteit Hasselt
Design for All (DfA) has been considered as a fundamental and innovative strategy to design inclusive spaces for a diversity of people’s needs and wishes. However, there is still a gap between theory and practice in this dis-cipline. Therefore, tools that support designers to implement DfA through a descriptive approach in architectural practice are necessary. The paper discusses the research development of a manual to inspire archi-tects in the ...
Design support for energy efficiency and summer comfort of dwellings in early design phases: A framework for a design tool adapted to the architects’ practice in Flanders Universiteit Hasselt
With regard to present issues of climate change, sustainable construction is a very current topic. In the broad context of sustainable building, this research focuses on energy efficiency, considering the large energy reduction potential of the building sector. Due to increased awareness of energy use, the European EPBD was introduced in 2002, with a recast in 2010 requiring nearly zero‐energy performance from 2021. In this frame, the energy ...