16:00 Green Walls and Roofs for Enhanced Building Skin Performance
Chair: Valerie J. Amor, Drawing Conclusions, Brooklyn (NY), USA
Winter operation of green walls for energy savings in buildings
- Thermal performance of green walls
- Energy savings in summer
- Winter thermal performance
Gabriel Pérez, University of Lleida, Spain
Integrating multiple building skins in response to climate change
- Building skins to produce potable water, clean air, food energy, promote biodiversity, manage waste and support cultural identity
- Policy, building and zoning codes
Valerie J. Amor, Drawing Conclusions LLC, Brooklyn, USA
Thermal performance of a double-skin green façade (DSGF)
- Double-skin green façade of an office building in Shanghai
- South-facing façade with strong cooling effect
- Comparing configurations of DSGF parameters
Feng Yang, Tongji University, Shanghai, China
Green façade system for indoor air purification
- Incorporating Azolla algae as a natural air purifier
- Green façade system to improve indoor air quality
- Reducing energy consumption by reduction in inlet flow
Houman Parhizkar, National University of Iran, Tehran, Iran
Improving cross-ventilation by integrating productive façade into tropical passive design
- Solar shading
- Urban farming module
- CFD air flow simulation
Chao Yuan, National University of Singapore
17:30 End of Conference