WHO WE ARE QUIENES SOMOS

Vital Signs Lab is a collective of researchers and designers who share a common interest in healthy building environments. It is located in the Facultad de Arquitectura, Urbanismo y Geografía, at the Universidad de Concepción, Chile. VSLsupports research centered on human wellbeing, comfort, indoor air quality, energy use in new and existing buildingsin the built environment. The lab also offers technical support to courses that measure, analyze, and design systems within the University as well as external consulting to architectural firms and institutions. VSLis defined as space for exploration, diagnostics, evaluation, interpretation, and a comprehensive understanding of the complexity of our human environments. We propose a diagnostics methodology of acquiring the main vitals of built spaces.

WHAT WE DO QUE HACEMOS

At the Vital–Signs Lab, we tackle complex research questions related to designof our built environment. Our exploration is driven by a belief that buildings and cities are living, dynamic objects of study. Specifically, our interest is finding how to improve the quality of living spaces where humans interact. To design, prototype, and evaluate we work closely with interdisciplinary collaborators  / specialist / researchers / community /  agents within the society in urban planning, geography, physics, engineering, electronics, aerospace, computational engineering, medicine, public health, epidemiology, and many other fields.Among ouroverarching research goals are:

-Understand performance in buildings through hands-on research

-Generate data through mix-method approach in order achieved a comprehensive understanding of our environments.

-Use a wide toolkit comprising the application of standards, simulations, fieldwork measurement equipment, Internet of Things (IoT).

-Develop strategies and designs that can move forward the way we built.