Retro Futurism & Design
The impact of retro-futurism in art is highly influenced by the Italian Futuristic Movement, which promoted the image of future societies linked to technology and machines. As Sian and Lucas (2018) explain, Retro-Futurism is considered a trend related to science
Retro-Futuristic
At the beginning of the 20th century the enormous economic, technological, and scientific progress caused great changes in the way in which human being produced their vision of the world. The Avant-Garde movement became one of those changes, as a
What is Artificial Intelligence in Smart Cities
The tendency to integrate data in life brings forth a smart city concept which is a big issue globally. In theory, a smart city develops and manages a city by leveraging information technology to more effectively and efficiently connect, monitor,
The Smart Cities trends
The smart-city concept is a response to global demographic trends, ongoing urbanization processes and the pursuit of sustainable development. As a result of demographic trends, global warming, and turmoil in the global economy, cities provide a space for creative social
Smart-city trends & environment of sustainability 
The smart-city concept refers to a city that uses information and communication technologies to increase the interactivity and efficiency of urban infrastructure and its components, as well as raising awareness among residents of, for example, such socially important issues as
Smart Cities
A city shall be viewed as a system composed of different subsystems essential for its functioning and performance, such as water, gas and electricity infrastructure, transportation, urban development and buildings, architecture, public services, healthcare, government and many others. These areas
Energy savings technologies for heating, ventilation and air-conditioning system
The heating, ventilation and air-conditioning system consumes about 1/3–2/3 of the total building energy. Therefore, studies on the operation strategies of the air-conditioning system and building envelope thermal properties have always been a hot topic. Deng studied the effects of
Building integrated renewable energy
About one-third of the primary energy in the world is consumed by buildings. A large amount of CO2 emission due to building energy consumption has threatened the sustainable development of the world. Improvement on the building energy performance, especially by
Future of Facility Management
What is Facility Management? Facility management is a multidisciplinary topic that requires the collaboration and coordination of different people. ISO 41011:2017 defines FM as an “organizational function which integrates people, place and process within the built environment with the purpose of
An Architecture of Visual Images
The ocular bias has never been more apparent in the art of architecture than in the past half century, as a type of architecture, aimed at a striking and memorable visual image, has predominated. Instead of an existentially grounded plastic