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Rethinking Adaptive Building Skins from a Life Cycle Assessment perspective
Journal of Facade Design and Engineering, 2019 Adaptive building technologies have opened up a growing field of research aimed at ensuring indoor comfort while reducing energy consumption in buildings.
Manuela Crespi +1 more
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A typology of adaptive façades. An empirical study based on the morphology of glazed facades
Cogent Arts & Humanities, 2021 A building’s façade is its main interface with the external environment. Adaptive façade, one recent invention in the façade industry, has the capability to change its behaviour in real-time to respond to internal and/or external parameters, by means of ...
Marcin Brzezicki
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Smart Bioinspired Material‐Based Actuators: Current Challenges and Prospects
Advanced Intelligent Systems, Volume 7, Issue 3, March 2025.This work gathers, in a review style, an extensive and comprehensive literature overview on the development of autonomous actuators based on synthetic materials, bringing together valuable knowledge from several studies. Furthermore, the article identifies the fundamental principles of actuation mechanisms and defines key parameters to address the size
Alejandro Palacios +4 more
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Multi-criteria performance assessment of an adaptive kinetic photovoltaic shading system
Frontiers in Built EnvironmentThis paper presents a multi-criteria performance assessment of KineticSKIN, a climate-responsive adaptive façade system that integrates thin-film photovoltaic shading devices into bifurcated folding modules.
Ana Caroline Ghidini +2 more
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Bio-inspired Parametric Design for Adaptive Stadium Façades
, 2014 The challenge of developing sustainable, adaptive architecture requires unconventional approaches to innovative knowledge about composition and dynamic interaction between building façades and environmental conditions. These approaches are often inspired
Bharat Dave +3 more
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Stakeholder Perspectives on Therapeutic and Safe Building Design in Residential Care
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Residential care is a form of out‐of‐home care that plays a critical role in supporting vulnerable young people in Australia. However, there is an evidence gap regarding the built environment in this context. This research aimed to explore the perspectives of key stakeholders in residential care in Victoria, Australia, regarding design that ...
Carmen Schroder +3 more
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Buildings, 2021 Optimisation of shading devices in buildings is a broadly investigated topic; however, most studies only focus on a single façade orientation, since the observed buildings are typically located in high latitude regions.
Rizki A. Mangkuto +6 more
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Embedding Chemistry and Pharmacy Into Sustainability
Angewandte Chemie International Edition, EarlyView.Chemistry and pharmacy provide products and processes that are indispensable for our high living standard. To understand their relationship with sustainability is important to allow them to contribute to sustainability in a sustainable manner. An integrated overview of green, circular, and sustainable chemistry and pharmacy is given and how they have t
Klaus Kümmerer
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In response to growing global challenges, this study explores how social entrepreneurship within the Edible City movement contributes to building resilient, sustainable, and equitable urban food systems. Drawing on semistructured interviews with over 70 stakeholders across five cities—Berlin, Andernach, Oslo, Rotterdam, and Havana—we ...
Ina Säumel +6 more
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EnergiesAdaptive façades, also known as climate-adaptive building shells (CABSs), could make a significant contribution towards reducing the energy consumption of buildings and their environmental impacts.
Ismael Palacios Mackay +2 more
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