Proceedings of the COST Action TU1403 : Adaptive Facades Network Final Conference

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State of the Art in Building Façades

This chapter presents a portfolio of building materials suitable for facades. It describes the relationship between material type, building element, facade, and the entire building structure. Traditional facades based on static components, as well as adaptive concepts able to interact with changing environmental conditions, are briefly described and illustrated with pictures. Climatic design principles, biomimicry, and bioinspiration in architecture are introduced with the purpose of inspiring future developments

Designing Building Skins with Biomaterials

This chapter presents several successful examples of biomaterial facade design. It discusses facade function from aesthetical, functional, and safety perspectives. Special focus is directed on novel concepts for adaptation and special functionalities of facades. Analysis of the structure morphologies and aesthetic impressions related to the bio-based building facades is supported with photographs collected by authors in various locations. Finally, particular adaptations and special functionalities of bio-based facades going beyond traditional building envelope concept are supported by selected case studies

Design of construction - Imagine!

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Design for deconstruction: Or why aluminium and glass is better than wood?

The first law of thermodynamics defines: Energy can neither be produced nor destroyed, but only converted into other types of energy [1]. From this it follows for us and our topic of circularity in the building industry that we must deal with the energy that the earth receives or has received, the solar radiation, and can feed our requirements from these. For Central Europe we can assume a solar radiation of 100 kWh/m²a [2] – however, when using energy we do not limit ourselves to the current solar radiation but also use stored solar radiation in the form of coal, oil, gas, biomass / wood and geothermal energy. Here it is only a question of how fast the energy flow is – several million years as with coal, oil and gas or only years or decades as with biomass / wood

Special Issue: European Perspectives

This special issue features a wide range of topics, stemming from research activities of members from the European Façade Network (EFN). The EFN seeks to advance and promote façade design and engineering at a European level and beyond, through inclusive collaboration between European Research centres, Universities, and alumni, resulting in skills and knowledge transfer in education, research, and development. Consequently, this special issue showcases a selection of research experiences presented at two scientific events sponsored by the EFN

Editorial

Architectural Technolog