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Journal of Asian Architecture and Building Engineering, 2023 Buildings incorporating kinetic architecture are designed to allow parts of the structure to move without reducing the structural integrity of the building. This is believed to substantially improve both energy efficiency and lighting performance.
Hanan M. Taleb, Rudy Moarbes
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Assessing and benchmarking the performance of advanced building facades [PDF]
, 2010 This chapter describes the energy demand reshaping and supply technologies that may be encapsulated within an advanced building façade - for example, transparent and breathable insulation, advanced glazing, daylight capture, photovoltaic components and ...
Johnstone, C., Clarke, J.A.
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CFD modelling of double-skin facades with venetian blinds [PDF]
, 2007 This paper describes CFD modelling of Double Skin Façades (DSF) with venetian blinds inside the façade cavity. The 2-D modelling work investigates the coupled convective, conductive and radiative heat transfer through the DSF system.
Mei, L. +5 more
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Façade & Atmospheric Temperature Relationship A Brick Façade Research Study [PDF]
, 2021 An urban environment is impacted by the urban heat island effect and as such has a higher temperature than that of surrounding rural areas, this is caused by the use of human construction materials such as concrete and bricks causing differences in ...
Thai, Vi Hung, Abrahamsson, Simon
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Applied Sciences, 2021 The paper explores the potentials of shape memory alloys (SMAs) for the design of autoreactive façade systems without using additional external energy.
Christina Koukelli +2 more
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Using parametric BIM integration for prototyping future responsive facades
Journal of Facade Design and Engineering, 2018 Architectural facades throughout the history have been designed to respond to environmental, social and functional conditions among other considerations.
Zaki Mallasi
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A morphological approach for kinetic façade design process to improve visual and thermal comfort: Review [PDF]
, 2019 Visual and thermal comfort for occupants significantly depend on exterior environmental climatic conditions, which are continuously changing. In particular, optimizing visual and thermal comfort simultaneously is a difficult topic due to mutual conflicts
Schröder, Torsten +11 more
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Integrating interactive kinetic façade design with colored glass to improve daylight performance based on occupants’ position [PDF]
, 2020 The dynamic nature of daylight and occupant's position can cause some issues such as heat gains and visual discomfort, which need to be controlled in real-time operation.
Guerra-Santin, O +12 more
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Applied Sciences, 2022 This study proposes an architectural design for renewable energy production to increase energy independence in the architectural field. Among natural energy sources, solar panels that can be applied to building façades have been developed to use solar ...
Ho Soon Choi
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Flexible Transparency - a Study on Adaptive Thin Glass Façade Panels
Challenging Glass Conference Proceedings, 2018 Chemically strengthened thin glass (t < 2 mm) is a material that is stronger and due to its small thickness, more flexible than conventional window glass.
Rafael Ribeiro Silveira +2 more
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