'La Ville Radieuse' by le corbusier once again a case study

PLEA 2006 - 23rd International Conference on Passive and Low Energy Architecture, Conference Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Montavon, Marylène ^a   Steemers, Koen ^b   Cheng, Vicky ^b   Compagnon, Raphaël ^c  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES WESTERN SWITZERLAND   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Daylight; Heliothermic axis; Urban design

Indexed keywords

DAYLIGHT; DESIGN PRINCIPLES; HELIOTHERMIC AXIS; HIGH DENSITY; SOLAR PERFORMANCE; TOWN PLANNING; URBAN DESIGN; URBAN ENVIRONMENTS;

ENERGY MANAGEMENT; ENERGY RESOURCES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 84865755575     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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