Day 2, Session Block A
08:30 Responsive and Adaptive Building Skins
Chair: Omar Renteria, EYP, New York, USA
Self-aware façades within evolving networks
- Façade as self-aware, communicative organism
- Targeted, networked façade design and assembly
- Ongoing and purposeful design
Omar Renteria, EYP, New York, USA
Autoreactive façade components in an open cladding system
- Adaptive materials
- Design strategies to integrate adaptive materials into the building skin
- Autoreactive sun-shading and ventilation
Philipp Molter, Technical University Munich, Germany
Design of sustainable adaptive building skins with LCA
- Optimization of building skins design
- Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) as a design tool
- LCA key factors for adaptive façades
Manuela Crespi, Dep. PDTA, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Active, passive or interactive? Human-building interactive façade system for behavioral change of occupants
- Responsive and interactive building skins: concept and challenges
- Controllability of façade elements to enhance comfort and wellbeing
- Integrated concept of building elements and building occupants
Qianning Zhang, National University of Singapore
Brief Presentations
Design and evaluation of architectural shapes in extreme environments
Lenka Kormanikova, Technical University of Kosice, Slovakia
10:00 Coffee Break