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, Session Block B2

16:15 Performance of the Building Envelope

Chair: Brian Koh, Integra, Seoul, South Korea

Design guidelines for additive manufactured performative façade

  • Geometric design for sustainable high-performative façade
  • Optimized fabrication for integrative façade
  • Shading informed façade design

Ina Cheibas, ETH Zürich, Switzerland

Bio-adaptive building skins for better building performance

  • Relationship between biomimicry and adaptive skins
  • Translation of biomimicry processes into architectural skins
  • Geometries and performance of bio-adaptive building skins

Maryam Alfadhel, University of Bahrain

Classrooms walls and mean radiant temperature in Mediterranean climate

  • Classroom wall retrofits in coastal Mediterranean climate
  • Retrofitting methods to improve MRT and student comfort
  • Construction materials to improve wall performance

Aram Yeretzian, American University of Beirut, Lebanon

Phase change material system for improving housing in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

  • Modelling of PCM
  • Simulation in EnergyPlus
  • Optimal location of PCM wallboard

Tsovoodavaa Gantumur, Mongolian University of Science and Technology, Ulaanbaatar

nZEB renovation with a smart hybrid envelope system

  • Research overview
  • Results from the testbed
  • nZEB renovation - Case study

Hyun-Hwa Lee, Korea Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Technology, South Korea

Brief Presentations

Renovation variants of historical box-windows and their energy performance

Konstantin Thurow, HTW Berlin, Germany

Model-based evaluation of architectural heat mitigation strategies

Michael Schmutz, Meteotest, Bern, Switzerland

17:30 – 19:30 Evening Reception