Uppvärmning inklusive varmvatten i lokaler står idag för 53 % av Sveriges totalaenergianvändning. För att uppnå en del av de uppsatta energi- och klimatmålen för EU ärenergieffektivt byggande en viktig nyckel. De kraftigt stigande elpriserna de senaste årenär en annan anledning att bygga mer energieffektiva byggnader. Idag dokumenterasenergiförbrukningen i en energideklaration som registreras hos Boverket för att ge entydlig bild av energianvändningen. Med hjälp av en lufttäthetsprovning där byggnadenutsätts för ett över- och undertryck på 50 Pa fås ett mått för hur mycket luft som läckergenom klimatskalet.Målet med arbetet är att undersöka hur energiförbrukningen i energideklarationen kansättas i korrelation till luftläckagevärdet. Med utgångspunkt ur villor producerade avEksjöhus som är lufttäthetsprovade från 2019 till 2023, har detta arbete jämfört statistikför att få fram en korrelationskoefficient. För att få en förståelse för hur Eksjöhus arbetatmed lufttäthet studerades utvecklingen av klimatskalet och luftläckagevärdet från 2012till 2022 via intervju och statistikarbete. För ett urval av lufttäthetsprovade hus byggdamellan 2019 och 2023 begärdes energideklarationer ut. Ett statistikarbete för data urenergideklarationer och luftläckagevärde genomfördes som är underlaget för diskussionoch analys av energideklarationens reliabilitet för att göra en översiktlig tolkning avresultatet tillförlitlighet.I intervjun med Eksjöhus framgår det att den enda förändringen som skett i klimatskaletsedan 2012 är att vägg-bjälklaget placerats en bit längre in för att underlätta att dra förbiplastfolie. Förändringen ger inte en synlig påverkan av det generella luftläckagevärdet.Eksjöhus har arbetat fram ett dokument som skickas med byggsatsen och fungerar som enguide för entreprenörerna för hur tätningar kring stålbalkar, genomföringar ochanslutningar ska göras. Eksjöhus använder sig även av en årlig träff tillsammans med deentreprenörer som bygger de flesta husen för att arbeta med lufttäthet. Vid arbetet medlufttäthet har Eksjöhus procentuellt minskat antalet nybyggda hus där luftläckagevärdetöverstiger de krav/riktlinjer företaget har.För att undersöka om luftläckage visar på ökad uppvärmd energi genomfördes enkorrelationsstudie där två variabler sätts i korrelation till varandra. Studien är tänkt attvisa att om ett hus läcker mycket luft kommer mängden energi som går åt till att värmaupp huset att öka. I jämförelse mellan luftläckage och uppvärmd energi visar inte studiennågot generellt samband.Arbetet tar inte hänsyn till byggnadernas specifika förutsättningar. Det leder till utebliveninformation kring levnadsvanor, antalet brukare och innetemperatur. I övrigt användesenbart energideklarationer från 103 samt 107 byggnader som deklarerats tidigast 1 januari2019. Provtryckningsresultat för att undersöka hur arbetet med lufttäthet för Eksjöhusnyproducerade villor utvecklats begränsas från 2012 till 2022. / This study investigating the correlation between energy consumption in energydeclarations and air leakage values, with a focus on Eksjöhus-produced villas. Tounderstand how Eksjöhus has been working with airtightness during 2012 to 2022 aninterview and an analysis of statistic has been done.The aim of this work is to investigate how the energy consumption documented in energydeclarations can be correlated with the air leakage obtained through an air leakage test.The results suggest that Eksjöhus implemented a solitary modification to the buildingenvelope since 2012, which did not significantly affect the overall air leakage values.During the period there was a proportional decrease in the number of new housesexceeding Eksjöhus requirements/guidelines for air leakage.No general correlation was found between energy consumption and air leakage. Whensorting data for low energy consumption and low air leakage a clearer correlation wasfound. The result also shows an economic advantage of constructing buildings with highairtightness.

La « promenade architecturale », expression inventée par Le Corbusier en 1929, à l’occasion de la publication du premier volume de l’Œuvre Complète, représente un concept clé corbuséen parmi les plus fréquemment évoqués. En suivant les pistes tracées par l’utilisation du terme «promenade architecturale» par l’architecte lui-même, sans s’y limiter toutefois, notre étude vise à clarifier la genèse, l’application et le développement de ce concept. Une méthodologie constituée de trois approches — historique, projectuelle et textuelle — est adoptée afin de mesurer son évolution de 1907 à 1939. La période de formation de l’architecte (1907-1915), constitue le champ d’observation de ses principales sources d’inspiration. Les débuts de la carrière de Charles-Édouard Jeanneret à La Chaux-de-Fonds depuis son retour du Voyage d’Orient en novembre 1911, son installation à Paris en janvier 1917, et la première décennie de la carrière de Le Corbusier (1920-1929), fournissent les pistes utiles à éclairer sa mise en place à l’échelle des maisons individuelles. L’«ère des grands travaux » (1929-1939) témoigne, enfin, de son développement et de sa mutation, particulièrement dans une suite d’études consacrées au musée. Cette dernière phase marque l’apogée de la promenade architecturale et présage de sa disparition textuelle dans la carrière corbuséenne de l’Après-guerre. Loin d’être une simple formule esthétique, la promenade architecturale se développe sur la base d’un croisement de diverses sources d’inspiration — peinture, art de bâtir les villes, littérature, cinéma et architecture — et à partir d’une fusion entre expériences de perception et de conception. Elle constitue ainsi une méthode fondamentale et spécifique de Le Corbusier pour penser l’architecture, qui le distingue des précurseurs et d’autres figures de proue du Mouvement moderne. / The promenade architecturale, an expression invented by Le Corbusier in 1929 when the first volume of L’Œuvre complète was published, represents one of the most frequently mentioned key concept of Le Corbusier. By following the paths traced by the uses of the term promenade architecturale by the architect himself, without limiting ourselves to them, our research aims to clarify the genesis, the implementation and the development of this concept. A methodology consisting of three approaches — historical, project-based and textual — has been adopted in order to evaluate how it evolved bet-ween 1907 and 1939. The formative years of the architect (1907-1915) constitutes a field to observe his main sources of inspiration. The early career of Charles-Edouard Jeanneret at La Chaux-de-Fonds, dating from the return of the young architect from the Voyage d’Orient to his departure for Paris in 1917, and the first decade of the career of Le Corbusier (1920-1929), provide helpful indices to understand how this concept was put into practice on private houses. At last, the ère des grands travaux (1929-1939) constitutes a testimony to the development of this concept, and is a witness of its mutation particularly along a series of studies that Le Corbusier devoted to museums. This last phase marks the peak of the promenade architecturale and announces its disappearing from Le Corbusier’s written work in his postwar career. Far from being a simple aesthetic formulation appeared accidentally, the promenade architecturale was developed on the basis of an action of crossing varied sources of inspiration — painting, art of building cities, literature, cinema and architecture —, and was deduced from a fusion of perceptive and conceptual experiences. Thus, it constitutes Le Corbusier’s fundamental and specific method for thinking architecture, which makes him stand out from his precursors and from other prominent characters of the Modern Movement.

El trabajo aquí presentado busca, por tanto, comprender el cómo fue usada, socialmente usada, la institución municipal de una villa mediana, tanto desde el punto de vista interno como desde su proyección al exterior. Para hacerlo hemos elegido los años que corrieron como bisagra entre los siglos XVI y XVII y un territorio concreto: la villa de Palomares del Campo en el partido de Huete (Cuenca). El caso de Palomares encaja bien en el sistema que nos permite plantear los supuestos sobre la significación centralizadora de la Monarquía en estos años. Para comprender el marco local es fundamental tener en cuenta las relaciones entre el concejo y la Monarquía y los efectos que los designios de ésta pudieron tener sobre aquél. / The work here presented search, therefore, since there was used, socially secondhand the municipal institution of a medium villa, both from the internal point of view and from the project to do it we have chosen the years that ran as hinge between the XVIth and XVIIth century and a concrete territory the villa of Dovecots of the field in Huete's (Cuenca) .El case of Dovecots fits well in the system that allows us to raise the suppositions on the meaning centralizadora of the Monarchy in these years. To understand the local frame is fundamental bear the relations in mind betweenthe council and the Monarchy and the effects that the plans of this one could have on that one

The Master's thesis comes with an idea of general renovation of the building and its surroundings of Elementary art school in Valašské Klobouky. To expand the insufficient and inappropriate space, the new building will be added to present monumental art nouveau Bratmann's villa which will be completely restored to its former appearance from year 1896. The thesis contains widespread analytic part aimed on theoretical preparation for restoration. The plan was to create harmonious changeover between the old building used for musical education and the new building used for the rest of the art education.

This thesis transcribes and translates the war correspondence of King Philip II from the year 1592. The original manuscripts are held at the Harold B. Lee Library in the L. Tom Perry Special Collections (Brigham Young University, Provo, UT). The original manuscripts have been diplomatically transcribed meaning that the transcription respects the original orthography, accentuation, abbreviations, and word divisions. For easy comparison, a facsimile of each manuscript has been provided and appears before its corresponding transcription. The translation strategy used is a modified version of a “fluent translation” as described by Lawrence Venuti. Instead of removing all foreign aspects of the source language (Spanish), some political and monetary terms have been borrowed because of a lack of a cultural and lexical equivalent in the target language (English). The definitions of these words have been provided at the end of the translation section. Also provided is a brief history about Philip II and his rise to being king of Spain along with his political ideologies and policies towards the Netherlands and England. This biography provides the historical context to better understand the content of the letters and their impact on history.

This thesis explores the extent to which elite women of the eighteenth century commissioned architectural works and the extent to which the type and scale of their projects was dictated by their marital status. Traditionally, architectural historians have advocated that eighteenth-century architecture was purely the pursuit of men. Women, of course, were not absent during this period, but their involvement with architecture has been largely obscured and largely overlooked. This doctoral research has redressed this oversight through the scrutinising of known sources and the unearthing of new archival material. This thesis begins with an exploration of the legal and financial statuses of elite women, as encapsulated by the eighteenth-century marriage settlement. This encompasses brides’ portions or dowries, wives’ annuities or ‘pin-money’, widows’ dower or jointure, and provisions made for daughters and younger children. Following this, the thesis is divided into three main sections which each look at the ways in which women, depending upon their marital status, could engage in architecture. The first of these sections discusses unmarried women, where the patronage of the following patroness is examined: Anne Robinson; Lady Isabella Finch; Lady Elizabeth Hastings; Sophia Baddeley; George Anne Bellamy and Teresa Cornelys. The second section explores the patronage of married women, namely Jemima Yorke, Marchioness Grey; Amabel Hume-Campbell, Lady Polwarth; Mary Robinson, Baroness Grantham; Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough; Frances Boscawen; Elizabeth Herbert, Countess of Pembroke and Montgomery; Henrietta Knight, Baroness Luxborough and Lady Sarah Bunbury. The third and final section discusses the architectural patronage of widowed women, including Susanna Montgomery, Countess of Eglinton; Georgianna Spencer, Countess Spencer; Elizabeth Somerset, Duchess of Beaufort; Elizabeth Home, Countess of Home; Elizabeth Montagu; Mary Hervey, Lady Hervey; Henrietta Fermor, Countess of Pomfret; the Hon. Charlotte Digby; the Hon. Charlotte Boyle Walsingham; the Hon. Agneta Yorke and Albinia Brodrick, Viscountess Midleton. Collectively, all three sections advocate that elite women were at the heart of the architectural patronage system and exerted more influence and agency over architecture than has previously been recognised by architectural historians.

'The inspiration behind this project is the new urbanist idea which combines residential development with green spaces for leisure and sport as well as mixed use commercial areas and storage. The layout of the area is a grid formed by 100m squared plots with residential houses with personal yards. These plots are grouped as complexes and between each complex is a communal green space. On the outside of the inner grid, there are mixed use apartment buildings and a high commercial floor. The square is dominated by a smaller multi-purpose building with a fluid outside space in which community events can be organized. Diagonally connected to the square is a park with a playground and an area with patio seating in addition to three villa houses. The park leads to the river embankment, into which tiered seating will be created. Around the hotel, there is another park with a multi-generational playground. In the northern part is located hotel renovated from the original industrial buildings with added ground floor restaurant area. Around hotel there is a park with green space and multi-generational playground. The terrace houses are located in the northeastern part of the complex and feature an attractive riverside view. Row houses line the the main road and are buffered from street noise by a line of trees. Typology and placement of other, separate houses is inspired by colonies of worker-houses eg. Baťa houses in Zlín. In between each ground these is no fence and are only separated a slight depression in the green.

The thesis deals with the design of a sustainable urban structure, based on a medieval city, in the 21st century. The main idea of the proposal is the creation of a new part of the town Náměšť nad Oslavou with the aim of connecting it with the existing urban structure and at the same time extending it to the missing elements of the developing city. The newly built area is designed with an emphasis on the construction of new residential housing with civil facilities services, while designing and creating public spaces and private parts of courtyards and villas. The aim of the thesis was to design a growing territory so that it adapts to the needs of today's society and at the same time became part of the existing city. From an urban point of view, based on the theme of the thesis, the aim is to combine elements of a medieval city with elements of a city built in the 21st century. The concept is based on a planned network of streets with multifunctional buildings designed for trade and production in the ground floor and housing on other floors, which originated in the medieval city. The emblem of the medieval city was the emotional perception of the connection of strict lines and strange shapes into one whole, and therefore buildings were designed in a new part of the city for living with almost clean geometric lines, while the objects of civil facilities are organic shapes.

The diploma thesis deals with an urban study on the territory of Červený kopec, specifically in the part of the territory of Stráň. It is a locality stated as a brownfield Kohnova cihelna. The proposal aims to make the most of the potential of this site, which lies in its proximity to the city center, the neighborhood of the national natural monument, a significant area of greenery and the views that this place provides due to its topographic situation. A new city district is proposed on the area of 18 hectares, which would cover one of the "brownfield holes" on the map of the city of Brno and at the same time help against the outflow of population to the outskirts of the city and against the creation of urban satellites. Numerous public opinion polls show that they would like to live close to the city, but at the same time especially young families long for their own house in a quiet countryside location. Therefore, a compact development of terraced houses, terrace villas and blocks of flats with private courtyards is proposed here, complemented by quality public space and civic amenities. This new city district would offer housing for about 3,500 new residents.