Department of the Built Environment

Smart Architectural Technologies

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Smart Architectural Technologies (SAT)

Smart Architectural Technologies focuses on embedding innovative technologies in the built environment to create responsive buildings. In particular, the chair focuses on the balance between architecture, technology and user, brought together within the integral concept of the ‘Empathic Environment‘.

Meet some of our Researchers

A closer look at Smart Architectural Technologies (SAT)

“For me, a brick and a sensor are equal – both are simply elements in my toolkit.”

prof.dr.ir. M. (Masi) Mohammadi

“Current social en technological developments are having a profound effect on the ways in which we build and think about architecture. An Empathic Living Environment combines efficiency, effectiveness and empowerment into a total solution. Smartness is introduced as an instrument to realize this solution, which could be applied in healthcare processes, human interaction, living or other areas. Our approach brings practical improvements, such as efficiency enhancements and cost reduction, whilst also improving engagement and quality of life. It’s exciting to see how the synergy between technology and sociology can produce new solutions for living quarters as well as shared and public spaces, allowing functionality to change independently of construction.”

“The basis is always finding the best possible solution for the user through architecture and design, introducing technology only where a simpler solution won’t suffice. If you can design a building in such a way that every occupant can see the front door, for example, you won’t need to introduce complicated intercom and CCTV systems. Making the best use of natural lighting could mean you won’t need artificial light at certain hours. By introducing vegetation inside a building, people could be stimulated to farm. There are countless possibilities. Of course, we’re happy to use technology, which can be very complex and advanced, but only as part of an overall approach.”  

Projects

Events

  • 06 Dec

    Student Take-Over: Riding the Spectrum

    December 6, 2023 12:40 PM / Blauwe Zaal, Auditorium

  • 06 Dec
    Engineering Porous Electrodes for Redox Flow Batteries

    PhD defense Maxime van der Heijden

    December 6, 2023 / TU/e Campus

  • 06 Dec
    Understanding Robots

    PhD defense Margot Maria Elisabeth Neggers

    December 6, 2023 / TU/e Campus

  • 06 Dec
    20 Dec

    WinTU/er Village

    TU/e is organizing the traditional WinTU/er Village in Atlas. Our wonderfully decorated Village Square and stage will return. This year it…

  • 06 Dec
    Notochordal cell-derived therapeutic approaches for intervertebral disc regeneration

    PhD defense Tara Corinna Schmitz

    December 6, 2023 / TU/e Campus

  • 07 Dec

    Preventive Health Conference 2023

    December 7, 2023 9:00 AM / Jaarbeurs, Utrecht

  • 07 Dec
    Digital Signal Processing for Signal-Dependent Impairments in Optical Fiber Communication

    PhD defense Kaiquan Wu

    December 7, 2023 / TU/e Campus

  • 07 Dec
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    Information Session - Data Science & AI for Professionals

    December 7, 2023 6:30 PM / EAISI, Neuron Building - TU/e

  • 07 Dec
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    4TU.CEE Innovation Fund Event 2023

    Learn about the engineering education innovation projects at TU/e that were funded by 4TU.CEE in 2023.

  • 07 Dec
    Supramolecular Polymeric Materials

    PhD defense Joost Johannes Bernardus van der Tol

    December 7, 2023 / TU/e Campus

  • 07 Dec
    Simulating Positive and Negative Streamer Discharges in Air and in Strongly Attaching Gases

    PhD defense Baohong Guo

    December 7, 2023 / TU/e Campus

  • 08 Dec
    Optomechanical interactions in plasmonic gap resonators

    PhD defense

    December 8, 2023 / TU/e Campus

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