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Adaptive Façades: Review of Designs, Performance Evaluation, and Control Systems
Buildings, 2022 Adaptive building envelope systems can manage energy and mass transformation between indoor and outdoor environments, which contributes to the achievement of environmental benefits via reducing energy consumption and greenhouse gas emission while ...
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Evaluation of Adaptive Facades: The Case Study of AGC Headquarter in Belgium
Challenging Glass Conference Proceedings, 2016 The evaluation of adaptive facades presents a challenge because there is no established evaluation strategy to systematically reach this goal and many of the available façade performance evaluation tools have limited applicability for such advanced ...
S. Attia, H. Bashandy
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Future trends and main concepts of adaptive facade systems
Energy Science & Engineering, 2020 There is a growing interest in adaptive facade technologies to counter overheating problems and well‐being concerns in smart and high‐performance buildings.
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Dynamically Controlled Adaptive Facade and Shading Systems
Journal of Architectural Sciences and Applications, 2021 While the usable facades provide significant savings in building energy use and CO2 emissions, it also has a beneficial effect on the quality of the indoor environment.
Ümit Arpacıoğlu, Büşra Yaman
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Post-Occupancy Evaluation for Adaptive Façades
Journal of Facade Design and Engineering, 2018 Post-occupancy evaluation is a valuable method of generating information on the performance of adaptive building façades in relation to users. This evaluation technique involves both procedural methods, such as soft-landing, and empirical measuring ...
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Towards a Human Centred Approach for Adaptive Façades
Journal of Facade Design and Engineering, 2022 Adaptive façades are multifunctional systems that are able to change their functions, features, or behaviour over time in response to changing boundary conditions or performance requirements. As one of the significant developments in the façade industry
Mine Koyaz +3 more
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Climate Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Roofs and Pavements. A Case Study at Sapienza University Campus [PDF]
, 2018 The progressively emerging concept of urban resilience to climate change highlights the importance of mitigation and adaptation measures, and the need to integrate urban climatology in the design process, in order to better understand the multiple ...
Battisti, Alessandra +3 more
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Journal of Facade Design and Engineering, 2018 This special issue is linked to the conference FAÇADE 2018 – Adaptive!, the fifth conference that is organised by Lucerne University of Applied Science and Arts within the framework of the European Façade Network EFN.
Andreas Luible
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Mitigation strategies of the urban heat island intensity in Mediterranean climates: simulation studies in Rome (Italy) and Valparaiso (Chile) [PDF]
, 2019 The Urbanocene, a proposed new geological epoch characterized by the urban living condition, is pressing the humanity to respond shortly to important challenges. Cities are at the same time the places where we live in and the big dissipators of the final
Carrasco, Claudio +4 more
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A Redesign Procedure to Manufacture Adaptive Façades with Standard Products
Journal of Facade Design and Engineering, 2018 Although their potential for high environmental performance is largely accepted, adaptive façades have not yet become widespread in practice. Most of the current examples are developed by engineer-to-order design processes, as project-oriented, custom ...
Bahar Başarır, Cem Mehmet Altun
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