Methodology for evaluating the safety level of current accepted design solutions for limiting fire spread between buildings [PDF]
, 2016 External fire spread between buildings is internationally considered as a major concern for buildings in dense urban environments. While design guidelines differ between countries, the fundamental methods currently used for limiting the risk of fire ...
D Drysdale, J Rahikainen, M Fontana
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Serrated Glass Facades: the Influence of Façade Morphology on Aesthetic Quality
Challenging Glass Conference Proceedings, 2018 Serrated building envelopes are a very eye-catching element of contemporary architecture. This type of façade in plan resembles the edges of a serrated blade, hence the name. Serrated facades substantially influence the building’s tectonics understood as
Marcin Brzezicki
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VR/Urban: spread.gun - design process and challenges in developing a shared encounter for media façades [PDF]
, 2010 Designing novel interaction concepts for urban environments is not only a technical challenge in terms of scale, safety, portability and deployment, but also a challenge of designing for social configurations and spatial settings.
Fischer, P. T. +2 more
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Innovative design tool for the optimization of blast-enhanced facade systems
Journal of Facade Design and Engineering, 2015 In current blast enhancement design strategies, to resist the effects of an accidental explosion, a facade system is commonly designed to behave in-elastically and undergo large deformations.
Guido Lori +3 more
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Buildings, 2020 Investigating thermal breakage of glass panes requires careful analysis of the environmental boundary conditions to determine the expected thermal gradient between the sunlit and shaded parts of the glass.
Jacopo Montali +2 more
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Investigating the Performance of Indoor daylighting, and Thermal Performance in Residential Buildings Using Productive Façades [PDF]
Port Said Engineering Research Journal, 2023 Productive Facade (PF) is a multi-functional system used in sustainable and productive cities, it is the integration of farming and Photovoltaics PV cells in façade design.
Basma Nashaat
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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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CFD model-based analysis and experimental assessment of key design parameters for an integrated unglazed metallic thermal collector façade [PDF]
, 2020 Active façade systems incorporating solar thermal collectors currently offer very promising energetic solutions. From among the available systems, a simple solution is the unglazed heat collector for potential integration in low-temperature applications.
Blanco, J.M. +3 more
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Analysis of thermal field within an urban canyon with variable thermophysical characteristics of the building's walls. [PDF]
, 2015 In a typical urban configuration, a microclimatic analysis has been carried out. Using a CFD method, a N-S oriented urban street canyon, with a given H/W ratio, has been examined.
DE LIETO VOLLARO, Andrea +3 more
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Ventilated façade systems. Design and workmanship faults affecting the functionality and safe use [PDF]
MATEC Web of Conferences, 2019 Ventilated facade systems are increasingly used in modern construction industry. It is connected with a wide range of available wall claddings which allow to create distinctive architectural buildings (ventilated facade system made of fiber cement sheets
Kopyłow Ołeksij
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