, Session Block A2
16:30 Design Methods for Sustainable, High-Performance Building Façades
Chair: Matthew Fineout, AE7, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
From intuition to optimization: Data-driven decision-making for sustainable building skins
- Data-driven decision-making for façade optioneering
- Hidden costs and carbon payback in façade design
- Optimizing energy efficiency through façade system selection
Emerging performance-based design guidelines for modern façades
- Façade operability at elevation responding to wind
- Materials prone to wind noise, fatigue and solar glare
- Performance-based design and quality assurance manual
Balancing aesthetics and functionality: Digital design of an exhibition pavilion façade
- Digital design from massing to fabrication
- Balancing aesthetics, modularity and structural safety
- Rapid iteration with parametric CAD and BIM integration
How computational design and innovations shape modern building envelopes
- Integration of computational tools into architectural and engineering practices
- Advanced algorithms, data analysis, and simulations
- Designing dynamic, sustainable structures
Optimising façade design for a sustainable superstructure of high-rise buildings
- Embodied carbon savings on optimising superstructure design
- Incorporating higher degrees of flexibility in façade systems
- Evaluating impact of façade on embodied carbon of structures
Brief Presentations
Considerations when designing façades
Loss-free data processing for façade design
19:00 – 22:00 Evening Reception 