All Outputs (13)

Designing for Well-Being in Large Housing Estates in East and West Berlin: Märkisches Viertel and Marzahn (2025)
Book Chapter
Borsi, K. (2025). Designing for Well-Being in Large Housing Estates in East and West Berlin: Märkisches Viertel and Marzahn. In I. Kuroishi (Ed.), Post-War Public Housing and Well-Being: Modernity, Economic Recovery, and Social Change (103-135). Routledge

The two large housing estates, Märkisches Viertel (1963–1974) in West Berlin and Marzahn (1977–1990) in East Berlin, exemplify the planning of neighbourhoods for ‘the good life.’ As flagship projects of their respective regimes, they were unprecedent... Read More about Designing for Well-Being in Large Housing Estates in East and West Berlin: Märkisches Viertel and Marzahn.

Reconstruction of heritage areas in Chile (2025)
Book Chapter
Devilat, B. (2025). Reconstruction of heritage areas in Chile. In Digital Records, Heritage Conservation and Post-earthquake Re-construction in Chile (109-140). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003172147-5

In this chapter, I present three case studies in Chile used as a laboratory to study the aspects covered previously since they are at continuous risk of destruction due to earthquakes. Focusing on the earthquakes of 2005 and 2010, I aim to discover w... Read More about Reconstruction of heritage areas in Chile.

Recording heritage buildings (2025)
Book Chapter
Devilat, B. (2025). Recording heritage buildings. In Digital Records, Heritage Conservation and Post-earthquake Re-construction in Chile (52-80). Taylor & Francis (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003172147-3

Chapter 2 explores architectural representation and how existing buildings have been recorded, as a historical analysis. From the first attempts to document historical buildings to a review of recording techniques until the current digitalisation sta... Read More about Recording heritage buildings.

Conclusions (2025)
Book Chapter
Devilat, B. (2025). Conclusions. In Digital Records, Heritage Conservation and Post-earthquake Re-construction in Chile (227-238). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003172147-8

This chapter identifies the contributions of this book in methodological terms, emphasising the implications of geometrically accurate recording technologies for the understanding of reconstruction of built heritage at risk. Reconstruction as a repli... Read More about Conclusions.

Record and reconstruction in the face of destruction (2025)
Book Chapter
Devilat, B. (2025). Record and reconstruction in the face of destruction. In Digital Records, Heritage Conservation and Post-earthquake Re-construction in Chile (81-108). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003172147-4

In this chapter, disasters are introduced as agents of built heritage change. It looks at previous reconstruction efforts and how the documents informed them – especially rebuilding as replica. It establishes the link between the record and rebuildin... Read More about Record and reconstruction in the face of destruction.

The record (2025)
Book Chapter
Devilat, B. (2025). The record. In Digital Records, Heritage Conservation and Post-earthquake Re-construction in Chile (141-182). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003172147-6

In previous chapters, I have discussed the role of the record for replication in architecture, its accuracy and its importance in the face of disasters. I then focused on Chile, presenting the heritage areas before and during their latest reconstruct... Read More about The record.

A Review of Research on Thermal Comfort in Rural Houses in China (2024)
Book Chapter
Zhang, J., Lu, J., Deng, W., & Beccarelli, P. (2024). A Review of Research on Thermal Comfort in Rural Houses in China. In R. Pernice, & B. Chen (Eds.), Australia and China Perspectives on Urban Regeneration and Rural Revitalization. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003414186

Considerable research has been undertaken on indoor thermal comfort. However, due to the uneven economic development between rural and urban areas, the rural residential environment has always lagged behind urban areas. Research on thermal comfort in... Read More about A Review of Research on Thermal Comfort in Rural Houses in China.

Issue 1. Introducing technology to break the unsustainable cycle of building replacement after earthquakes: towards a culture of reuse and risk mitigation (2022)
Book Chapter
Devilat, B., Gamal Abdelmonem, M., Lanuz, F., Desai, J., Mane, M., Pithawalla, Z., Jigyasu, R., Sen, S., Singh, A., & Kanji, R. (2022). Issue 1. Introducing technology to break the unsustainable cycle of building replacement after earthquakes: towards a culture of reuse and risk mitigation. In F. Giliberto, & R. Jackson (Eds.), Cultural heritage in the context of disasters and climate change: Insights from the DCMS-AHRC Cultural Heritage and Climate Change Cohort (26-31). University of Leeds and University of Edinburgh

Assessing the impact of lockdown due to COVID-19 on the electricity consumption of a housing development in the UK (2021)
Book Chapter
Tubelo, R., Naghiyev, E., Gillot, M., Rodrigues, L., & Shipman, R. (2021). Assessing the impact of lockdown due to COVID-19 on the electricity consumption of a housing development in the UK. In J. R. Littlewood, R. J. Howlett, & L. C. Jain (Eds.), Sustainability in Energy and Buildings 2021 (45-55). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-6269-0_4

In March 2020, the United Kingdom (UK) government ruled that householders must stay home as a response to the COVID-19 outbreak to help flatten the curve of the epidemic and reduce the exponential growth of the virus. Commercial activities, workplace... Read More about Assessing the impact of lockdown due to COVID-19 on the electricity consumption of a housing development in the UK.

Mindfulness and design: creating spaces for well being (2017)
Book Chapter
Porter, N., Bramham, J., & Thomas, M. (2017). Mindfulness and design: creating spaces for well being. In F. J. Saavedra Macías, A. Español Nogueiro, S. Arias Sánchez, & M. Calderón García (Eds.), Creative practices for improving health and social inclusion: 5th International Health Humanities Conference, Sevilla 2016. Universidad de Sevilla, Vicerrectorado de Investigación

What is the relationship between mindfulness therapy and the physical settings in which it is practiced? Mindfulness is defined as ―paying attention to what‘s happening in the present moment in the mind, body and external environment, with an attitud... Read More about Mindfulness and design: creating spaces for well being.

From grey towards green. about the urban energy fold at Symbiont City (2017)
Book Chapter
Mestre, N., Rodrigues, L. T., Hurtado, E., & Roig, E. From grey towards green. about the urban energy fold at Symbiont City. In Carbon footprint and the industrial life cycle (485-500). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54984-2_21

Instead of the energy and ecological relocation, SYMBIONT City detects energy opportunities and possible urban folding to achieve thermodynamic benefits. Although some agendas have already fostered the concept of symbiotic planning, neither current i... Read More about From grey towards green. about the urban energy fold at Symbiont City.

Designing with membranes (2015)
Book Chapter
Beccarelli, P. (2015). Designing with membranes. In A. Zanelli, L. Spinelli, C. Monticelli, & P. Pedrali (Eds.), Lightweight landscape: enhancing design through minimal mass structures (19-27). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21665-2_2

This contribution offers an introduction to membrane structures and the experimental approach which has characterised this building system since its origins. In particular, the chapter offers an overview of the design approach currently adopted for t... Read More about Designing with membranes.

Criterios de intervención patrimonial aplicados a procesos de reconstrucción. Estudio para el caso de San Lorenzo de Tarapacá, Chile (2008)
Book Chapter
Devilat, B. (2008). Criterios de intervención patrimonial aplicados a procesos de reconstrucción. Estudio para el caso de San Lorenzo de Tarapacá, Chile. In Y. Schoonjans, W. Lievens, A. Corona Martinez, J. Petric, L. Vigo, & D. Pinheiro Machado (Eds.), Ensayos sobre sustentabilidad y patrimonio (197-212). PROURB, da Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo. Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, BRAZIL & St Lucas Architectuur, Brussels,. https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.1.2130.3521