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18th Advanced Building Skins Conference & Expo
30-31 October 2023, Bern, Switzerland

18th Advanced Building Skins Conference & Expo
30-31 October 2023, Bern, Switzerland

18th Advanced Building Skins Conference & Expo
30-31 October 2023, Bern, Switzerland

18th Advanced Building Skins Conference & Expo
30-31 October 2023, Bern, Switzerland

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, 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

Olga Mesa, Roger Williams University, Bristol, United States

Low-embodied carbon and cost-effective green façade system

  • Optimizing embodied carbon and cost-effectiveness
  • Thermal effects
  • Improving the design by using bio-inspiration

Maricruz Solera Jimenez, Wageningen University, Netherlands

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

Linda Meier, Stuttgart University, Germany

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

Paolo Rigone, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Bioinspired atmospheric water harvesting technologies for building facades

  • Passive bioinspired solution for potable water production in
  • Bioinspired Atmospheric Water Harvesting (AWH) technologies
  • Integration of biomimetic AWH systems into the building envelope

Ladan Zolfaghari, The University of Sydney, Australia

15:30 Coffee Break

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