, Session Block A3
16:15 Architectural Membranes for High-performance Building Skins
Chair: Marijke Mollaert, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
Fabric façades from recycled PET bottles
- Lightweight façades for new and refurbished buildings
- Recycled fabrics in sustainability assessments
- EPD’s for fabric façades to enhance ecological footprint
Special grades of ETFE film for unique projects
- UV-cut, pigmented and matted ETFE film
- New low-haze ETFE film for façade and roofing
- High reflective printed ETFE film solutions
Prediction of rain noise in large halls covered by structural skins
- Modelling of roofs as surface sound sources
- Acoustic simulation of rain noise distribution in large atria
- Impact of the room geometry on noise caused by rain
Transparent ETFE cushion roof
- Integration in existing industrial architecture
- Variable glazing walls
- Compression ring and radial cables
Moveable structures as 5th skin
- Sliding systems
- Membranes
- Adaptivity
The long way to 1000m³ ETFE-Cloud
- Standing on only 6 filigree columns
- “Flying” between the houses
- Internal supporting structure
17:45 End of Conference Day 1
19:30 Evening Reception 