Presentation of the project NOMAD at the UAE – Swiss Research Day
The Laboratory of Architecture and Sustainable Technologies (LAST) took part in the first "United Arab Emirates – Swiss Research Day", organized on 22nd June 2011 by EPFL Middle East, Ras Al Khaimah (RAK), by presenting the project NOMAD developed jointly with the Interdisciplinary Laboratory of Performance-Integrated Design (LIPID).
The first "UAE – Swiss Research Day" focused on strategies for the future of energy and sustainability. It was an opportunity to present the project NOMAD (Network of Optimization Modalities in Architectural Design), resulting from a joint initiative of the LIPID and the LAST.
NOMAD consists of a series of research projects dealing with the optimization of building envelopes in the perspective of sustainable architecture. Based on performance evaluations carried out on one hand in a temperate climate and on the other in an arid one, the project lies particularly on the use of experimental modules set up respectively on the campus of EPFL in Lausanne and on the one of EPFL Middle East in RAK.
This dual climatic approach allows to open an innovative and original research field able to generate new façade concepts of high environmental quality, to develop bio-climatic strategies of which the performances are more in accordance with local resources and to evaluate the adequacy of the models proposed in various climates in a multicriteria perspective.