Daylight in sustainable Urban Design © ETH Wohnforum – ETH CASE
By 2050 up to six billion people are predicted to live in urban areas, which will accelerate urban growth and increases densifaction – resulting in fewer open spaces, more heat islands, and higher energy demands. Integrating daylight – which is a basic human need as it is essential for our health and wellbeing – into the future urban design should be part of the solution. Then tomorrow’s cities could offer higher standards of environmental sustainability and enhanced liveability.
ETH Wohnforum – ETH CASE and Prof. Arno Schlueter (ITA) initiated an initiative to form across different institutes a group responding to the diverse challenges and opportunities around daylight, with a multidisciplinary research platform to address questions of better including aspects of daylight in sustainable urban design and innovative energy technologies to support human wellbeing, living comfort, and health.
The project expects developing outcomes with high relevance for policy recommendations in the field of integrated and active approaches to the transformation of urban planning.
The platform will offer a fellowship program, providing two positions for outstanding Post Doc researchers. Funding partner of this project is Velux Stiftung Schweiz.
INFORMATION
Über die Laufzeit des Projekts werden zwei Postdoc-Stellen ausgeschrieben. Die erste wird bis Ende Juli 2020 auf dem online Stellenportal der ETH Zürich veröffentlicht.
