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Package design for frozen foods-principles for sustainability

Made available in DSpace on 2020-12-10T16:37:10Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2013-01-01; FCT. Fundacao para a Ciencia e Tecnologia.Portugal; Packaging for frozen foods is characterized by technological and commercial development, but also leads to negative environmental impact. The present study assessed mock-ups developed by a packaging design method based on principles for sustainability ...

A design tool for resource-efficient fabrication of 3d-graded structural buildi...

The construction sector is under increasing pressure to improve its efficiency and effectiveness, reducing environmental impacts, material use and costs. A computational tool was developed to design and fabricate functionally graded building components. The material composition was defined based on voxel determination in order to design building elements with varying material stiffness. A cement-based conceptua...

A transformation-grammar-based methodology for the adaptation of existing house...

The research presented here aims to develop a methodology for rehabilitating the existing hous-ing stock to meet the new needs of dwellers in the current information society and the conse-quent need to integrate information, communication and automation technology into living areas. This article focuses on the use of a transformation grammar in the rehabilitation methodology as a tool for identifying and encodi...

Reproducibility of peak power output during a 10-s cycling maximal effort using...

Inferring a shape grammar: translating designer's knowledge

This article focuses on a shape grammar that was developed to enable the adaptation of existing houses – “rabo-de-bacalhau” housing style - to new requirements and most particular on the process of inference of the grammar. Along the article we describe the process undertaken to develop the grammar and what the achievements of the transformation grammar are regarding the possibilities of a mass customization of...

Re-inventing Portuguese ceramic tiles: Using shape grammars as generative metho...

The following paper describes the process and results achieved with the workshop entitled ‘Re-inventing Portuguese ceramic tiles’ reflecting on design methodology and design teaching. Workshop participants were invited to rethink ceramic tile patterns developing a different process which used shape grammars as a generative system. Each participant group developed a three stage task using shape grammars principl...

Transformation grammar for housing rehabilitation: from a specific to a general...

This article focuses on the use of both shape grammar and space syntax as tools to identify and encode the principles and rules behind the adaptation of existing houses to new requirements. The idea is to use such rules as part of a transformation grammar-based methodology for the rehabilitation of existing dwellings. The developed grammar is a specific grammar to inform the rehabilitation of a particular type ...

Integration of Information, Communication and Automation technologies in Housin...

This paper addresses the integration of Information, Communication and Automation Technologies (ICAT) in the dwelling space so as to meet the needs of users. ICAT systems can have a very important role in contemporary dwellings because of the benefits they bring to residents both from the ecological and social perspectives. The paper describes an ongoing PhD research that is concerned with the rehabilitation of...

Utilização de domótica na estratégia de sustentabilidade social e ambiental

Methodology for the Integration of Information, Communication and Automation Te...

This paper addresses the integration of Information, Communication and Automation Technologies (ICAT) in the dwelling space in order to meet the user’s needs. We describe an ongoing PhD research which deals with the rehabilitation of the existing housing stock in order to fulfil the new needs of dwellers in the current Information Society as well as the impact of the integration of ICAT in dwellings. For this p...