Morning22, Session Block B5
10:45 Responsive and Adaptive Building Skins
Chair: Aletheia Ida, University of Arizona, Tucson, United States
Adaptive façade to improve a building’s energy efficiency and economics: Aro Tower, New York
- Improved energy efficiency and economics through façade design
- Challenges of implementing an adaptive façade system and strategies for mitigating risk
- Exploration of sustainability credentials in relation to energy performance
Relevance of adaptable façade systems: Evaluation through scenario planning
- Adaptable façades to close material loops
- Evaluating relevance of façade transformations qualitatively and quantitatively
- Service life models of residential building façades
Machine learning for a gel-based evaporative-cooling membrane system prototype
- Machine learning integration with environmental sensing
- Dynamic heat capacitance, light transmission, moisture diffusion, and ventilation
- Prototype design for multifunctional building integrated hydrogel-based membrane
Façades of hospital buildings: Identifying functional requirements and design specifications
- Human-centered design
- Smartphone analogy: Individualized standardization
- Environmental adaptability: Responsive and adaptive to user needs
Shading control of an adaptable ventilation mode double skin façade
- Climate responsive double skin facade
- Intelligent shading control
- Parametric analysis
Parametric digital analysis for climate adapted building envelopes
- Understanding of site and climate
- Analog diagrams, sketches and physical models to adapt the building to site and climate
- Design refinement with digital parametric analysis, energy modeling, computational fluid dynamic studies
12:30 Lunch