Wallonie-Bruxelles International Excellence Fellowship (WBI)
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16/07/2015 - A jury comprising members of the FRS-FNRS, WBI, and general operational branch of " Economie, emploi et recherche " of the Walloon Public Service (DG 06) agreed to renew the Wallonie-Bruxelles International (WBI) Excellence Fellowship of Jean-Denis Thiry, doctoral Assistant at LIPID.
Jean-Denis’ research, co-supervised by Prof. Marilyne Andersen and Prof. Bruno Marchand of LTH2, seeks to evaluate the design of schools with aspects related to the quality of daylight, in order to precisely identify architectural strategies for achieving "circadian design" and more specifically, those having a positive impact on the health and well-being of occupants.
Through a rigorous study of outstanding school typologies, selected according to specific criteria, the research project first aims to combine daylight performance aspects related to health with a broader spatial, cultural, and historical approach which emphasizes the impact of hygienists’ principles legacies on the architectural design development of primary schools in Switzerland and in Europe from the 1950s.
His approach is then founded in the analysis of typologies according to a specific protocol, consisting of a complementarity blend of observations, in situ measurements and qualitative and quantitative analyses. This method is based in both a simulated environment - taking into account the temporality of use by the occupants - and in actual working conditions of the selected case studies. These investigations will be made possible thanks to support by the WBI.