10.45 Smart Materials for Adaptive Façades
Chair: Ben Bridgens, Newcastle University, United Kingdom
Early experiments and concepts for bacteria spore-based hygromorphs
- Bacteria spore-based hygromorphic materials
- Assessing the strength and construction of the material
- Potential mechanisms and form factors
Martyn Dade-Robertson, Newcastle University, UK
Soft robotic building skins
- Emergence of soft robotics in architecture
- Soft robotic building skin prototypes
- Soft robotic building skins for the control of environmental conditions
Martina Decker, NJIT School of Architecture, Newark, USA
Computational design and digital prototyping for climate-responsive timber building components
- Shape-changing wood building components
- Complex movement patterns in multi-element components
- Prototyping large scale shape-changing building components
Dylan Wood, Stuttgart University, Germany
Smart wooden actuators for solar driven and controlled shading systems
- Wooden bilayers as sustainable and autonomous actuators, driven and controlled by the sun
- Control of actuation pattern by material adapted design principles
- Increasing the rate of shape change by systematic structuring
Markus Rüggeberg, EMPA, Switzerland
Design optimization of a self-shading smart material morphing building skin
- Material selection for a morphing skin
- Shape-based objective functions
- Morphing wrinkle patterns for self-shading skin
John Brigham, Durham University, UK
Smart tiles - Application of the dynamic characteristics of shape-memory polymers to climate-adaptive building façades
- Material systems reactive to environmental stimuli
- Physical modeling with shape memory polymers
- Façade retrofit applications for hot climates
Dale Clifford, California Polytechnic State University, USA
Architectural application of wood-based responsive building skins
- Material development and durability testing of wood-based responsive cladding
- The first full-scale, permanent building with hygromorphic responsive cladding
- Building integration and architectural functionalization of responsive wood composites
Ben Bridgens, Newcastle University, UK
Brief Presentations
Color change temperature in thermos-chromic façades for the energy efficiency of buildings
Maria Gavira, IETcc, Madrid, Spain
Energy efficiency by joining groupware with building automation
Stephan Weismann, ZAE Bayern, Würzburg, Germany
12:30 Lunch