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The research group Architecture and Intelligent living focuses on indoor environmental quality (IEQ) and accessibility in the built environment. With sustainability in mind, our research aims to promote energy efficient, usable and comfortable places for all occupants.

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AIL at BUILDSIM NORDIC 2024 Conference

10. Jun. 2024: Abel Sepúlveda Luque attended the BUILDSIM NORDIC 2024 Conference at Aalto University, Finland. Abel proposed a novel methodology for dynamic glare evaluation based on wearable micro-cameras. He highlighted the importance of using the proposed methodology to HDR images from wearable micro-cameras, since daylight glare discomfort can be highly underestimated.

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AIL at the Daylight Academy

30-31. May. 2024: Caroline Karmann and Priji Balakrishnan attended the annual meeting of the Daylight Academy (DLA) in Trondheim. This year's meeting focused on how daylight and light can contribute to achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Durant the conference, Caroline Karmann was elected as new member of the DLA. She looks forward to collaborating with this highly interdisciplinary community.

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AIL at IES Educational Webinar: International Day of Light Research Webinar: Focus on Daylighting

23. May. 2024: Priji Balakrishnan was invited to present her paper on "Trees in Daylight Simulation – Measuring and Modelling Realistic Light Transmittance through Trees at the Illuminating Engineering Society (IES) educational webinar series for the International Day of Light Research Webinar, which focused on daylighting. The event featured presentations by authors of three recent papers published in LEUKOS, covering various aspects of daylight and daylighting.

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AIL at HARMONIA COST training school ‘Sky over BerLin’

08-10. Apr. 2024: Priji Balakrishnan attended the Sky over BerLin Training School – HARMONIA’s Aerosol Measurements Workshop. Hosted by the Deutscher Wetterdienst and organized with the Freie Universität Berlin, the event aimed to enhance understanding of atmospheric aerosols. Participants engaged in hands-on activities, learned from leading scientists, and explored innovative research methodologies.

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AIL seminar projects presentations

06. Mar. 2024: AIL proposed the seminar "Designing a space for someone unlike you", which brought together several people with disabilities - student assistants and external guests with different types of disabilities - and placed them as experts of accessibility. The same persons also joined the final session to assess the projects of the students, which were asked to not only design accessible buildings but also present their ideas in an accessible format. It was a pleasure to get everyone in one room for this final session.

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AIL at regional conference "Designing inclusively"

04. Mar. 2024: SaeBom Song and Jingying Dong took part in the regional conference on inclusive design organized by the Baden-Württemberg Chamber of Architects. The talks given by the guests focused in particular on demographic change, accessible residential buildings cases and other built examples that include community thinking.

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AIL at Light + Building

03. Mar. 2024: Priji Balakrishnan attended the Light + Building international meeting and trade fair held in Frankfurt from 3 to 8th March 2024. Light + Building brings together manufacturers and experts from the lighting, electrical engineering, home and building automation sectors.

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Zeynep Yildiz joins AIL

Febr. 2024:  Zeynep started to work as a Post-doc researcher in the AIL research group. Her research as part of AIL focuses on understanding interdependent interactions of disabled people with assistive technologies and space, from the Disability Justice perspective.

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AIL at 40 Minuten Freiburg 2040

29. Jan. 2024: Caroline Karmann was invited to discuss "How are we going to live in 2040?" alongside Simone Wörner-Justies and Maria-Xenia Hardt (moderator). Topics covered included ecology and sustainable construction, universal design and housing cooperatives.

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Priji Balakrishnan joins AIL

Jan. 2024: Priji started to work as a postdoctoral researcher in the AIL research group.  Her current research centres on characterising location-specific daylight for predicting visual and non-visual effects of light. 

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Zhibin Wu joins AIL

Jan. 2024:  Zhibin started to work as research collaborator in the AIL research group. His research interests include key interdisciplinary fundamental issues in the fields of comfort and energy efficiency, human physiology, and health under the multifactorial coupling of the built environment.

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AIL at Lighting Symposium 2023

4-6. Dec. 2023: Jingying Dong attended Lighting Symposium 2023 in Stockholm.

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Saebom Song joins AIL

16. Oct. 2023: Saebom started to work as research assistant in the AIL research group. She is now actively developing innovative digital mapping methods and knowledge transfer methods to build trust between society and academia. 

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AIL offers O-phase project "Playful Architecture"

06. Oct. 2023: Orienting, moving and connecting - The O-phase project "Playful Architecture" playfully explored the search for and design of places in the Faculty of Architecture that are suitable for relaxing, moving around or socializing after intensive periods of study. The project involved exploration, testing and playful staging with film and props. We are pleased to have won the award for the best O-Phase in the new semester.

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AIL at eCAADe 2023 conference

20. Sep. 2023: Abel Sepulveda Luque attended virtually the 41st eCAADe Conference at Graz University of Technology, Austria. Abel presented his research about comparison between machine learning and prediction formulas to design healthy dwellings in a cold climate. He highlighted the importance of training properly the machine learning model, and he concluded that the best approach would depend on the designer criterion: accuracy in daylight and thermal comfort calculations or design speed.

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