, Session Block C4
10:45 Smart Materials and Adaptive Building Skins
Chair: Olga Mesa, Roger Williams University, Bristol, United States
Smart textile sun-shading
- Adaptive textile sun-shading
- Usage of smart materials in architectural applications
- Autarkic and energy-efficient operation
Performance of responsive and adaptive building skins
- Functional and choreographic benefits of responsive skins
- Case studies on performative exchange from low to high tech
- Future potentials for qualitative and quantitative inputs
Eco-solar transformer architecture
- Smart building, ecofriendly transformable envelope
- Passive/active bioclimatic Mashrabiya photovoltaic façade
- Integrated LED units, light design, urban display
Bioinspired building envelopes: Case study of an adaptive skin inspired by the morpho butterfly
- Bioinspired framework for envelope design
- Physical characterization of envelopes
- Biological data collection for bioinspiration
Challenges with adaptive façades - A life-cycle perspective
- Challenges in the life cycle of adaptive façades
- Planning procedures of adaptive façades
- Optimization and further development
12:30 Lunch