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Hydro
Ceramic
Introduction:

• Hydro ceramic is a product developed at the IACC (Institute for

Advanced Architecture of Catalonia) by a group of 3 student
girls, Akanksha Rathee, Elena Mitrofanova and Pong Santayanon
and their tutor Areti Markopoulou.
• It’s a product with brick shape base don thermodynamics
procedures, which is used for cooling buildings through passive
functions and considerably reduce energy effort.
• Hydroceramic is a project that speculates on the thermodynamic
processes in buildings and how these can be tackled passively
with a class of materials called “hydrogel”.
• By combining the evaporation property of the hydrogels with the
thermal mass, and humidity control property of clay ceramic and
fabric, a composite material responsive to heat and water was
created.
• It is a passive evapotranspiration system able to lower the [1]
temperature of an interior space by 5ºC.
Component:

• Clay
• Hydrogel
• Fabric.

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Design
method:
• A dry clay layer is placed, with its respective
little depths which are used as support to dry
hydrogel balls
• An elastic fabric layer which soaks these balls,
maintain their moisture and stop any kind of
sudden change at temperature or shape
• Finally another thinner clay layer and with
holes to hold the hydrogel balls and at the
same time it allows them to move as much for
moisturizing as for their evaporation features.

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Features of hydro
ceramic:
• Hydroceramic works as an evaporative cooling device which reduces temperature and
increases the humidity .
• Is capable of lowering down the temperature of the indoor environment by about 5 to
6 degree.
• It cools more when it is more hot and doesn’t cool when no evaporation is occurring.

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Advantage Disadvantages:
s:
• Sustainable building material.
• For hot and dry climate.
• Low cost material.
• Easily available.
• It can help save up to 28% of overall electricity
consumption caused by the traditional air-
conditioning
Newspaper
wood
Introduction:

• Newspaper Wood is a new material invented by Mieke

Meijer, developed together with and licensed to the Dutch
design label Vij5.
• Newspaper Wood shows a reversing of a traditional
production process; not from wood to paper, but the
other way around.
• When a Newspaper Wood log is cut, the layers of paper
appear like lines of a wood grain or the rings of a tree and
therefore resembles the aesthetic of real wood.
• The material can be cut, milled and sanded and generally
treated like any other type of wood.

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Manufacturing:
• coating individual sheets of old newspaper
with glue.
• then tightly rolling the glued sheets into
logs.
• The glue used is solvent and plasticizers-
free.
• cutting, milling, sanding, and finishing with
paint or varnish.
• When cut into planks, the layers of paper
reveal wood grain-like patterns of ink.
• Sanding the material roughens up the fibers
of the newspapers and provides a soft texture
that can be left unfinished.

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Advantage Disadvantages:
s:
• Recyclable material. • The planks are limited in size to the width of an
• A good alternative of wood. open newspaper so larger sizes are only available
as veneers.
• Ecofriendly material.
• The strength of the material is based on the
• furniture, light fittings, utensils, jewelry. strength of the glue, which limits using Newspaper
Wood as a structural component.
• large scale alternative to wood
• non-organic adhesive
Cool
roofs
Introduction:
• A cool roof is a roofing system that delivers higher solar reflectance (the ability to reflect the visible, infrared
and ultraviolet wavelengths of the sun, reducing heat transfer to the building) and higher thermal emittance
(the ability to radiate absorbed, or non-reflected solar energy) than standard designed roofing products.
• designed to reflect more sunlight and absorb less heat than a standard roof.
• Cool roofs can be made of a highly reflective type of paint, a sheet covering, or highly reflective tiles or
shingles.

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How it
works?
Cool Roof is a roofing system that helps
keep a building cool. It manages to do
this via two methods:
• solar reflectance.
• thermal emittance.
A traditional, dark material roof can reach
temperatures of 65oC. Installing an
appropriate cool roof technology can bring
this down to under 40oC.

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Types of cool
roofs:
 Cool Roof Coatings:
• good quality reflective coatings
• limestone whitewash
• UV protection
• protection from water and chemical
damage.

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 Tiling solution:
• white or light colored glazed tiles
• cool shingle tiles, slate tiles
• naturally reflective
• coatings pre-applied

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 Metal roofs:
• high reflectivity
• very poor thermal emittance
• cool roof paints and coatings

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 Earthen pots Insulation system:
• upside down earthen pots are cemented in place.
• provide insulation
• cool in summers
• warm in winters

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 Green Roofs:
• flat roof surface
• plant cover to a garden
• expensive to implement
• require maintenance
• provide good insulation
• reduce urban heat island effect
• more suitable in climates with
frequent rains and storms.

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 Warm climate
• greatest savings are seen.
• higher humidity
• more prone to mold and fungal growth due to
lower temperatures
• coating that protect against moisture and
include microbial protection
Cold climate
• Increase in their heating bill.
• high humidity
• more prone to condensation
• proper care must be taken
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Advantages: Disadvantages:
• Lower Temperatures • Increased need for heating in winter
• Reduced Maintenance Costs • Glare
• Reduced Energy Use and Cost • increase in their heating bill during winters.
• Mitigated Heat Island Index
• Reduced Air Pollutant Emissions
• Improved Air Quality
Low E
Windows
Introduction:
• Low-E, or low-emissivity, glass was created to minimize the amount of infrared and ultraviolet light that
comes through the glass, without minimizing the amount of light that enters .
• low-E glass, uses a microscopically thin and virtually invisible metal or metallic oxide layer incorporated
in
the glazing surface to control heat transfer through insulated windows, reducing energy loss by 30% to
50%.
• Low-E glass windows have a microscopically thin coating that is transparent and reflects heat.
• The Low-E coatings keep the temperature in the home consistent by reflecting the interior temperatures
back inside.

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Features of low-e
window:
• helps to reduce the transfer of heat through the window.
• keep heat from entering the home in hot climates.
• prevent heat from escaping from the home to the exterior in colder climates.
• In hotter climates with east- or west-facing windows, the low-E coating is applied to the outer layer of the
glazing to help keep the heat out.
• In colder, heating-dominated climates, it is applied to the inner layer to keep warmth in.

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Types of Low-E
coating:
1. Passive Low-E Coatings (Hard-Coat):Passive low-e coatings are designed to maximize solar heat gain into
a home or building to create the effect of “passive” heating and reducing reliance on artificial heating.
2. Solar Control Low-E Coatings (Soft-Coat): Solar control low-e coatings are designed to limit the amount of
solar heat that passes into a home or building for the purpose of keeping buildings cooler and reducing
energy consumption related to air conditioning.

Process of manufacture:

1. In the pyrolytic process, which became common in the early 1970’s, the coating is applied to the glass
ribbon while it is being produced on the float line. The coating then “fuses” to the hot glass surface,
creating a strong bond that is very durable for glass processing during fabrication. Finally, the glass is cut
into stock sheets of various sizes for shipment to fabricators.
2. In the MSVD process, introduced in the 1980’s and continually refined in recent decades, the coating is
applied off-line to pre-cut glass in a vacuum chambers at room temperature.
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Low E Windows for different
•climates:
Windows with high solar-gain low-E glass are designed to reduce heat loss while admitting maximum solar
heat gain. They are best used in heating-dominated climates, especially for passive-solar design
projects. They usually incorporate an argon gas-fill, and the glass is typically made with a pyrolytic low-E
coating.
• Windows with medium solar-gain low-E glass are often referred to as spectrally selective, and they reduce
heat loss while allowing a moderate amount of solar heat gain. They typically use an argon gas-fill. They are
usually made with sputtered low-E coatings.
• Low solar-gain low-E glass is also spectrally selective and is best suited to cooling-dominated climates, where
the biggest concern for windows is blocking heat transmission. These windows are made with sputtered low-
E coatings that consist of either two or three layers of silver. They are sometimes called double-silver or triple-
silver low-E windows.
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Advantages:
• block UV rays from entering the room
• allow visible light to pass through them
• reduce electricity bills
• maintain the temperature of the room at the
desired level.
• extensively used in glass facades in cold climates.
• durability of the glass
• easy to maintain low e glass
Disadvantages:
• low e glass is it is expensive as compared to normal
glass.
• For facades, which are in direct contact with
sunlight, low e glass will trap the heat radiating
from objects inside, which may lead to overheating
of interiors.
• Low e glass sometimes provides a hazy view as
compared to normal glass, so clarity of vision
through glass windows is reduced.
Recycled
plastic:
Composite
lumber:
• Composite lumber is a material that is a mixture of wood fiber, plastic, and some type of binding agent.
• These ingredients are put together to form a material that is denser, stronger, and heavier than wood alone,
a wood-plastic composite.
• The particles and fibers from different woods are combined, and adhesives keep them bound together.
• A veneer is often applied to the outside in order to make the composite wood appear more attractive.
• Composite woods are often used in cabinets, furniture, sheathing, flooring and siding.

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Features of composite
lumber:
• Working with composite lumber is similar to working with wood.
• composite lumber has the added benefit of being less likely to split or delaminate.
• Some composite lumber is also engineered to be lighter weight for easier handling.
• Composite lumber is also more stain, scratch, and mold resistant, and is therefore supposed to have a
longer life than wood lumber.

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Advantages: Disadvantages:
• They are less expensive than hardwood • it requires more energy during production.
• they are also weather-resistant • contain harmful chemicals
• hey can be painted or sealed
 Plastic Roofing
•
Tiles:
Plastic roof tiles are an inexpensive, high quality and practical material.
• Plastic panels are made by extrusion of rigid polyvinyl chloride (PVC), followed by application of the
decorative pattern with a special printing method and a protective layer of glossy or matte varnish, which
give the panels wear resistance, anti-static qualities, UV-resistance and also high resistance to physical
impact.

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Features of plastic roofing
tiles:
• environmentally friendly as they are made out of food graded plastic
• In case the fire starts it will not burn
• Sufficient strength and ductility allows the roof to live a long service life.
• energy saving

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Advantages:

• Resistance to UV radiation
• Strength, resistance to adverse environmental effects
• Ductility and flexibility
• Environmental friendly
• Good sound insulation
• Moisture resistance
• Easy in processing
• High light transmission capacity
• Durability
• Attractive appearance

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Thank
you
Hydroceramic:
• https://gizmodo.com/hydroceramic-walls-could-cool-buildings-by-sweating-lik-1650002004
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Newspaper
wood:
• http://shanghaimamas.org/building-paper-waste-newspaper-wood-resets-paper-lifecycle/
• https://www.zdnet.com/article/turning-newspaper-back-to-wood/
• https://materialdistrict.com/material/newspaperwood/
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Cool
roofs:
• https://www.energy.gov/energysaver/design/energy-efficient-home-design/cool-roofs
• https://www.go-gba.org/resources/green-building-methods/cool-roofs/
• https://www.certainteed.com/residential-roofing-commercial-roofing/what-cool-roof-0/
• https://heatisland.lbl.gov/coolscience/cool-roofs
• https://greentree.global/blog/cool-roof-technology/
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Low E
window:
• https://www.stanekwindows.com/what-is-low-e-glass-and-does-it-make-windows-more-energy-
efficient.aspx
• https://www.nachi.org/low-e-windows.htm
• http://glassed.vitroglazings.com/topics/how-low-e-glass-works
• https://gharpedia.com/blog/low-e-glass/
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plastic:
• https://www.plasticsmakeitpossible.com/plastics-at-home/home-garden/home-improvement/build-your-
new-home-with-recycled-plastic-building-materials/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Composite_lumber
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