, Session Block A4
10:45 Designing and Planning of Photovoltaic Façades
Chair: Stephen Wittkopf, Lucerne School of Engineering and Architecture, Switzerland
Enhancing BIPV designs through Artificial Intelligence
- BIPV design through user-friendly AI chatbot for architects
- BIPV techno-economic optimization using AI agent’s framework
- Comparison of GPT models for BIPV design scenarios
How to simplify façade electrification?
- Technical solutions
- Economic calculation
- Architectural integration
One façade: Blending of PV and non-PV façade surfaces
- Achieving a one-material, one-color look across entire façade
- How to overcome design compromises seen in BIPV
- Coordinating substructures and fixings for PV and non-PV areas
Performance-driven BIPV design: A case study
- Aesthetical integration of photovoltaics in building facades
- Performance-driven design requirements for native BIPV
- Thermal, daylight and aesthetic performance of IGU-based PV
Integrating PV in UNESCO heritage contexts
- Early-stage collaboration for BIPV in architectural and heritage settings
- Realisation of BIPV in UNESCO-protected Bruges
- Flexible production of customised, high-performance PV modules
- Heritage-compliant material selection balancing aesthetics and yield
Virtual reality for BIPV project planning and optimization
- Aesthetic integration of PV to increase real estate value
- VR technology and integrated PV design tools
- Case studies
Brief Presentations on New Developments in BIPV
Powering facades with transparent photovoltaic windows
Seamless and colorful integration of PV into roof tiles
Colored and anti-glare coatings for BIPV
Hail resistance of glass-free PV-activated façades from metal sheets
Enhancing building efficiency and aesthetics through a PV skylight
12:30 Lunch