Morning11, Session Block B1
10:45 Biomimetics for Energy Efficient Building Envelopes
Chair: Estelle Cruz, CEEBIOS - French Network in Biomimetics, Paris, France
Biomimicry: A source for advanced building skin design
- Comparison of current construction solutions to biomimicry-based solutions
- How could current construction methods be improved?
- What solutions could be derived?
Environmental adaptation of buildings through morphological differentiation
- Challenges and opportunities of biomimetic design methods
- The correlation between morphology, function, and environment for adaptation
- Adaptive building solutions
Passive kinetic solar shading device for a responsive building envelope
- Actuation systems in plants as biomimetic translation
- Shape memory alloys (SMAs) are used for activate kinetic devices
- Energy efficiency and responsive envelopes using SMAs for biomimetic application
Social wasp nests as source of bioinspired design of building skins
- Thermal performance of wasp paper nests
- Evaporative cooling of wasp paper nests
- Building envelope design inspired by wasp nests
A taxonomy of biological envelopes to design adaptive building skins
- Physical characterization of building envelopes
- Main families of biological envelopes
- A classification proposal for the generation of adaptive building skins
12:30 Lunch