, Session Block B6
14:00 Living Building Skins
Chair: Olga Mesa, Roger Williams University, Bristol, United States
Nathan Fash, Roger Williams University, Bristol, United States
Skin as habitat: Performance through species integration
- Building-skin performance integrating species
- Benefits and tensions of designing with species
- Green walls and roofs in urban contexts
Low-embodied carbon and cost-effective green façade system
- Optimizing embodied carbon and cost-effectiveness
- Thermal effects
- Improving the design by using bio-inspiration
Integrating nesting aids for wild bees into façades - A case study
- Impact of integrated nesting aids on humans and animals
- Building envelope retrofits and urban nature
- Data gathering on integrated nesting aids for wild bees
Green walls: Design optimization and analysis - A case study in Milan
- Green walls stability and safety analysis
- Green walls maintenance
- Indirect green façade with vine plants
15:30 Coffee Break