16:00 Advanced Building Skin Design 2
Chair: Negar Kalantar, Department of Architecture, Texas A&M University, USA
Design strategies associated with transformability in building skins
- Key knowledge exchanges within the design process
- Adaptable design strategies for a better sustainable environment
- Connections between motion, buildings, and their environment
Negar Kalantar, Department of Architecture, Texas A&M University, USA
Technical constrains and strategies for building envelope design
- Design key points focused on site coordination and refurbishment projects
- Thermal and CFD calculation for optimizing global envelope performance
- Design optimization to simplify blast and fire resistant façades
Raul Corrales Marcos, Bureau d’Ingénieurs Fenêtres & Façades SA, Switzerland
Dynamic simulation software as a design tool
- Innovative organic building materials
- Thermal behaviour of different building techniques and materials
- Strengths and weaknesses of selected simulation software
Rosalie Menon, Mackintosh School of Architecture, Glasgow, United Kingdom
Dynamic simulations of different façade designs
- Dynamic simulation on TRNSYS
- Retrofitting design concepts focusing on the transparent part of the building envelope
- Benefits, limitations and specific parameters of retrofitting concepts
Sabina Jordan, Slovenian National Building and Civil Engineering Institute, Slovenia
Physical mesh data structures for building skins
- Quad-edge data structures for building skin construction
- Methodologies to construct free-form building envelopes
- Building skins as cyclically woven objects
Ergun Akleman, Department of Visualization, Texas A&M University, USA
17:30 End of Conference Day 1