16:00 Kinetic Building Skins
Chair: Sandra Persiani, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
The application of auxetics in intelligent buildings
- Material behavior of auxetics in both the natural and man-made worlds
- Application of auxetic materials as architectural systems
Gabriel Tang, Sheffield Hallam University, United Kingdom
Autoreactive architectural façades: unpowered kinetic building skins and the method of evolutionary optimization
- Information transfer between biology and the functional properties of the building envelope
- Applicable biomimetic design suggestions for responsive building elements
- Strategies and possible applications scenarios for bio-inspired building envelopes
Sandra Persiani, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Effect of kinetic façades on energy efficiency of office buildings in hot and dry climates
- Optimized kinetic façades or pattern via parametric design
- Effect of kinetic façades on solar control and indoor thermal comfort
- Smart façades: energy efficiency in office buildings
Cherif Ben Bacha, Laboratoire Architecture Bioclimatique et Environnement (ABE), Constantine, Algeria
Smart self-adapting origami structures
- Self-adapting origami-inspired structures
- Digital prototyping and small-scale physical models
- Changing environmental conditions monitors through networks of embedded sensors
Matteo Botto, Politecnico di Torino; Silvia Fernandez De Alaiza Amador, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
17:30 End of Conference