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Main Street Revitalization: Woonsocket, RI [PDF]
, 2013 A healthy environment that utilizes local urban ecologies will positively impact the health and well being of the community. It is important to create an environment that will foster understanding and inspire learning about native plants and animals, how
Robinson, Arnold
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Framework for the implementation of urban big screens in the public space [PDF]
, 2009 In the last decade, big urban screens have appeared in town squares and on building facades across the UK. The use of these screens brings new potentials and challenges for city regulators, artists, architects, urban designers, producers, broadcasters ...
Boddington, G. +2 more
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Review on the use of FRP composites for fa\ue7ades and building skins [PDF]
, 2016 Fiber Reinforced Polymer (FRP) composites represent a class of materials typically able to offer excellent mechanical, thermal and insulation properties, taking advantage of a combination of their constitutive fibers and polymers.
Bedon, Chiara
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Adaptive Energy Skins: A Climate Zones-Based, Multi-Scale Analysis for High Performance Buildings
EnergiesAdaptive facades represent the result of a complex combination of innovative technologies, components, and materials, as well as mechanical, electronic, or digital technologies from sectors outside the construction world (technology transfer), which ...
Antonello Monsù Scolaro +3 more
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The Role of Geometry for Adaptability: Comparison of Shading Systems and Biological Role Models
Journal of Facade Design and Engineering, 2018 Dynamic shading systems represent the majority of realised adaptive façades. It seems that geometrically complex kinetic solutions have increased in recent years, mainly due to the use of parametric design tools and digital production.
Susanne Gosztonyi
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An Approach to Adaptive Sustainable Facades Inspired by Plants
ARCHive-SR, 2020 Nowadays, and under the global warming circumstances we are facing, particularly those resulting from the building sectors, many directions for more sustainable and eco-friendly concepts have emerged.
Nadeen Nour ElDin, Amal Abdou
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Case studies : adaptive facade network
, 2018 ABSTRACT: Adaptive building envelopes can provide improvements in building energy efficiency and economics, through their capability to change their behaviour in real time according to indooroutdoor parameters. This may be by means of materials, components or systems.
L. Aelenei +5 more
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Adaptive Glass Panels using Shape-Memory Alloys [PDF]
, 2016 Due to the growing application of laminated glass panels in building facades and roofs, tending towards the minimization of frameworks, substructures and supports, technological solutions based on the use of glass panels with increasingly wide dimensions
Bedon, Chiara +2 more
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Geometry-material coordination for passive adaptive solar morphing envelopes [PDF]
, 2017 The cost-intensive and mechanical complexity natures of the adaptive facades of the past decades drifted designers and researchers’ interest towards passive material-based actuation systems.
Chronis, A, Leung, C, Mokhtar, S
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A co-operating solver approach to building simulation [PDF]
, 2004 This paper describes the co-operating solver approach to building simulation as encapsulated within the ESP-r system.
Clarke, J. A., Tang, D.
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