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La Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Barcelona Tech (UPC) és una institució pública de recerca i d'educació superior en els àmbits de l'enginyeria, l'arquitectura i les ciències.

L’activitat dels seus campus i centres fan de la UPC un punt de referència i, en complicitat amb el teixit productiu, són agent i motor de canvi econòmic i social, en posar en valor la recerca bàsica i aplicada i transferir tecnologia i coneixement a la societat.

Els investigadors i investigadores de la UPC treballen des dels laboratoris i centres de recerca per augmentar la producció científica, valoritzar-la socialment a través de la transferència de resultats i continuar liderant projectes internacionals d’excel·lència, ja sigui a partir d’iniciatives pròpies o en col·laboració amb altres centres de recerca i universitats d’arreu del món.

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Recent Submissions

Residential outdoor spaces and thermal stress : courtyard design approach to thermally enhance outdoor spaces in single-family houses in the desert climate of Riyadh 

Alkhoudiri, Ahmed Salah M. (Date of defense: 2023-07-21)

(English) The typological shift of single-family houses in Riyadh during the 20th century has negatively impacted the inhabitants. The shift from attached houses with courtyards to detached houses with setbacks created ...

Masía urbana: el papel arquitectónico y urbanístico de la masía en el área suburbana de Barcelona durante el siglo XX 

Park, Jeongsoo (Date of defense: 2023-06-27)

(English) This thesis is based on a new concept of the ‘Urban Masia’ applied to the city of Barcelona between from the 1860s to the present. *(Although ‘‘masia’’ usually translated as 'farmhouse' in many cases, this term ...

The value of urban community public space - from Barcelona to Chongqing 

Xu, Ti (Date of defense: 2023-04-27)

(English) The community is the main urban space for expressing public space, and it is quite related to the daily life of everyone. In China, the community associated with housing became much more complex than before in ...

La arquitectura moche del Perú : análisis, interpretación y relación con la arquitectura peruana (1924-2020) 

Alva López, Florentino Gerardo (Date of defense: 2023-02-27)

(English) The latest archaeological discoveries and research on the Moche or Mochica culture (circa 200 A.D.-800 A.D.), developed in the northern coast of Peru, has allowed us to have a better vision and understanding of ...

La Seu Episcopal d’Ègara : el projecte d’un conjunt cristià al segle V 

González Pérez, Francisco Javier (Date of defense: 2022-07-19)

The aim of this research about built heritage is to understand how were the buildings placed in the monumental ensemble of Saint Peter of Terrassa configured, from middle 5th century to second half of the 6th century. To ...

Developing a parametric system for pointe shoe customization 

Christodoulou, Marilena (Date of defense: 2021-12-17)

A Pointe Shoe is worn by ballet dancers while performing “en pointe”. This fundamental ballet technique, which is performed by rising to the tips of the toes, enables dancers to create the illusion of incredible lightness ...

El espacio a partir del plano: el neoplasticismo en la arquitectura contemporánea 

Díez Blanco, María Teresa (Date of defense: 2022-02-07)

The Dutch De Stijl group was born at a time of common interest among avant-garde artists and architects of the first half of the 20th century in the purification of the means of expression, based until then on a tradition ...

Urban vertical garden: ways to improve living conditions by applying green façades in buildings refurbishment at semi-arid climate 

Bagheri Moghaddam, Faezeh (Date of defense: 2022-01-24)

This dissertation aims to improve work conditions in office buildings by implementing vertical greenery systems, such as green façades and living walls in semi-arid climates. Since building energy performance is characterized ...

Arquitectura y genética: como analogía en el proceso de diseño arquitectónico 

Botero Márquez, Natalia (Date of defense: 2021-04-07)

Due to the progressive development of new technologies, modern society is experiencing quite a degree of disconnection from the elements of nature. This is reflected in increased levels of stress, anxiety and depression, ...

El museo de arte como obra arquitectónica y artística 

Vélez Restrepo, María Isabel (Date of defense: 2020-12-17)

The topic of this investigation is focused in the study of the transformations and relationships of the Art Museum being both an artistic work of art and an architectural work. The concept of “work” is the result of a ...

Urban co-creation: community planning, bottom-up and participation tools 

Sève, Bruno (Date of defense: 2020-11-12)

For whom do we transform our built environment? The answer may seem obvious, since architecture, in theory, is conceived for humans and for the emancipation of communities. However, it is clear that architecture has moved ...

Guillem Reynés i Font. Una arquitectura interrumpida: el regionalismo como búsqueda utópica entre tradición y modernidad 

Reynés Corbella, Guillermo (Date of defense: 2020-12-30)

The thesis arose out of an initial process of systemisation and inventory of the documentary archives of the Majorcan architect, Guillem Reynés Font (Palma, 1877-1918), which has been conserved by his grandson, Guillermo ...

Los sistemas defensivos de la ciudad de Palma y su influencia en el desarrollo de la trama urbana en los siglos XVII al XIX 

Oliver Monserrat, Miquel (Date of defense: 2020-07-23)

This thesis analyzes the influence of the defensive systems and the military architecture on the urban pattern development of the city of Palma from the 17th to the 19th century which coincides with the construction and ...

Arquitectura y diseño flexible : una revisión para una construcción más sostenible 

Pinto Campos, Bruna Caroline (Date of defense: 2019-10-02)

Flexible architecture is characterized by its adaptive and harmonious nature. Historically, various forms of architecture have emerged with the ability to adapt to different conditions and needs, thus becoming a novel ...

Contemporary elderly housing in China and Europe : architecture refurbishing and emotional design 

Chen, Ting (Date of defense: 2019-10-09)

This thesis is written under the background of Chinese society. Architecture always develops with adaption to the desires of society. Design is a way to satisfy these social desires. Currently, China is suffering from the ...

The innovative expression of Chinese traditional culture and art in contemporary architectural design 

Li, Gaoli (Date of defense: 2019-09-10)

Recent improvements in contemporary Chinese society will not only be reflected by new economic models, cultural products, scientific and technological achievements and aesthetic values, but also manifest in diverse ...

El territorio ampurdanés entre los siglos V al X : Dispositio et compositio ecclesiae 

Valls Mora, Montserrat (Date of defense: 2019-09-16)

The ecclesiastical rural architecture before the year 1000 in the Hispanic north east, has relevant information on the territorial evolution and social changes that happen in an era full of lights and shadows. This ...

The elements of drawing & the lamp of life : J. Mª. Jujol desde una mirada contemporánea 

Mercadé i Brullés, Juan . (Date of defense: 2019-09-13)

The main objectives of the thesis are: to verify and confirm the fundamental role of drawing in the training of the architect, portraying Jujol as a reference as a master of this discipline. Analyze his evolution, subsequent ...

Chinese drawing, architectural poetics : traditional painting as a semantic representation of modern architectural design 

Zhang, Yimeng (Date of defense: 2019-07-15)

This thesis is partly an attempt to explore the potential of pre-modern Chinese painting, on its distinctive formats and schemes to achieve spatial depth and time duration, as a way to interpret and design architecture. ...

The generative, analytic and instructional capacities of sound in architecture : fundamentals, tools and evaluation of a design methodology 

Llorca Bofí, Josep (Date of defense: 2018-12-04)

The disciplines of space and time form two domains to which it is daring to compare, since it is obvious that they are of a different nature. Music happens in time, while architecture happens in space. However, from the ...

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