14:00 Membranes for High Performance Building Skins
Chair: Carl Maywald, Vector Foiltec, Germany
Advantages of ETFE in terms of acoustic comfort in atria and large halls
- Acoustic, visual and thermal properties of Ethylene-Tetra-Fluoro-Ethylene (ETFE) skins
- Comparing acoustics of foil-based structures with glass roofs
Monika Rychtáriková, KU Leuven, Belgium
ETFE green building factsheets – the product database for LEED, BREEAM and DGNB
- ETFE cladding system
- Environmental product declaration
- Building certification systems
Carl Maywald, Vector Foiltec GmbH, Bremen, Germany
Viscoplastic forming for ETFE cushions
- Inflating experiment on ETFE cushions
- Viscoplastic forming method for ETFE cushions
- Numerical simulation
Minger Wu, Tongji University, Shanghai, China
Collaborative design and engineering of a tensile fabric façade of a stadium
- Digital workflow
- Tensile fabric skin
- Collaborative design and engineering
Steve Lewis, Walter P Moore, Los Angeles, USA
Brief Presentations
ETFE skin, expressive potential: the Rosa Parks Station in Paris
Giacomo Di Ruocco, University of Salerno, Italy
15:30 Coffee Break