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Reducing Carbon Footprint of Architectural Projects: Breaking the Wall of Low-CO2 Buildings

Taís de Moraes Alves

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Taís de Moraes Alves is developing a building lego that accelerates construction and an online software that uses gaming tech and a cloud database to integrate Life Cycle Assessment and cost data into the design process.

Taís de Moraes Alves

São Paulo Research Foundation

Taís de Moraes Alves is the Co-Founder of Archflex, a creative studio that strives to contribute to the transition towards carbon-neutral construction by integrating architecture and construction technologies with computing and cloud data. Archflex’s solution combines a modular constructive system optimized for sustainable buildings and a gamified online software that calculates, in real-time, the carbon footprint and cost of a given design. Taís is a Brazilian architect based in São Paulo and graduated from the University of São Paulo in 2014. In 2017, she completed the Master of Architecture in Collective Housing program offered by ETSAM-Madrid and ETH-Zurich.