Day 2, Session Block B5
14:00 Glass for Advanced Building Envelopes
Chair: Jeremy Deale, Architectus, Sydney, Australia
Designing innovative high energy-performance glass façades
- Developing a high-performance architectural vision
- Aesthetics in advanced building envelopes
- Exploring innovative design processes and detail resolution
Current developments in building skin design – A façade contractor’s perspective
- Structural use of glass
- Multi-layered skins with complex geometries
- Operable façade concepts - From building skin to open public space
Water-glass building envelope - Design and energy aspects of adaptive hybrid envelopes
- Water as structural component for hybrid-adaptive envelope
- Energy and thermal aspects of water-glass envelope
- Construction aspects of water-glass envelope
New building glass envelope with light, colours and images
- New building skin expressing image arts for an image museum
- Integrated solution for building façade illumination
- Light-emitting diode technology
IGUs with individual function and free design using 3D printing
- Additive manufacturing for multi-functional insulating glass
- Free design possibilities in Industry 4.0
- Optimized use of daylight and energy control
Reinforced annealed glass
- Adhesively-bonded GFRP strips to reinforce glass
- Enhanced ductility and enhanced load capacity
- Strengthened stress concentration geometries
Reactive thermoplastic spacer for energy-efficient cold-bent structural glazing façades
- Cold-bent insulating glass units
- Energy efficiency and gas tightness
- Case study: Chadstone Shopping Centre, Melbourne
Brief Presentations
Heat build-up on shadow box: Assessment methodologies with 1-D and 2-D finite elements tools
Thermal stress in glazed façades: comparison between steady-state and transient thermal calculations
15:30 Coffee Break