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Rethinking Building Skins

Transformative Technologies and Research Trajectories

  • 1st Edition - December 5, 2021
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Eugenia Gasparri, Arianna Brambilla, Gabriele Lobaccaro, Francesco Goia, Annalisa Andaloro, Alberto Sangiorgio
  • Language: English

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Description

Rethinking Building Skins: Transformative Technologies and Research Trajectories provides a comprehensive collection of the most relevant and forward-looking research in the field of façade design and construction today, with a focus on both product and process innovation. The book brings together the expertise, creativity, and critical thinking of more than fifty global innovators from both academia and industry, to guide the reader in translating research into practice. It identifies new opportunities for the construction sector to respond to present challenges, towards a more sustainable, efficient, connected, and safe future.

Key features

  • Introduces the reader to the role of façades with respect to the main challenges ahead
  • Provides an overview of the major façade technological advancements throughout history and identifies prospective research trajectories
  • Includes interviews with key industry players from different backgrounds and expertise
  • Showcases a comprehensive range of leading research topics in the field, organised by product and process innovation
  • Covers major innovations across the value chain including façade design, fabrication, construction, operation and maintenance, and end-of-life
  • Contributes towards the definition of an international research agenda and identifies emerging market opportunities for the façade industry

Readership

This book will be of particular use to researchers in the field of façade design and construction, as well as professionals working in the industry.

Table of contents

Foreword
Ajla Aaksamija
Preface
Eugenia Gasparri, Arianna Brambilla, Gabriele Lobaccaro, Francesco Goia, Annalisa Andaloro and Alberto Sangiorgio

1. Façade Innovation: Past, Present, Future
Eugenia Gasparri, Arianna Brambilla, Gabriele Lobaccaro, Francesco Goia, Annalisa Andaloro and Alberto Sangiorgio

2. Façade Innovation: An Industry Perspective
Alberto Sangiorgio

Part A: Product Innovation

3. New and Innovative Cool Coatings for Urban Overheating Mitigation through Façades
Mattia Manni, Ioannis Kousis, Francesco Fiorito, Gabriele Lobaccaro, Alessandro Cannavale and Santamouris Mattheos

4. The Pursuit of Transparency
Lisa Rammig

5. Advanced Fenestration: Technologies, Performance, and Building Integration
Fabio Favoino, Roel C.G.M. Loonen, Michalis Michael, Giuseppe De Michele and Stefano Avesani

6. Embedding Intelligence to Control Adaptive Building Envelopes
Fabio Favoino, Manuela Baracani, Luigi Giovannini, Giovanni Gennero and Francesco Goia

7. Biomimetic Adaptive Building Skins: Design and Performance
Aysu Kuru, Francesco Fiorito, Philip Oldfield and Stephen Bonser

8. Building Integrated Photovoltaic Façades: Challenges, Opportunities, and Innovations
Francesco Frontini, Laura Maturi, David Moser and Pierluigi Bonomo

9. Unitised Timber Envelopes: The Future Generation of Industrialised, High-Performance, Sustainable Façades for Construction Decarbonisation
Eugenia Gasparri

10. Industrialised Building Envelopes for Renovation: Realizing the Potential to Decarbonise the European Building Stock
Thaleia Konstantinou and Charlotte Heesbeen

11. Vertical Farming on Façades: Transforming Building Skins for Urban Food Security
Abel Tablada and Vesna Kosoric

12. Interactive Media Façades: Research Prototypes, Application Areas, and Future Directions
Martin Tomitsch

Part B: Process Innovation

13. The Building Envelope: Failing to Understand Complexity in Tall Building Design
J.L. Torero

14. Resilience by Design: Building Façades for Tomorrow
Mic Patterson

15. Inverse Design for Advanced Building Envelope Materials, Systems, and Operation
Roel C.G.M. Loonen, Samuel de Vries and Francesco Goia

16. Towards Automated Design: Knowledge Based Engineering in Façades
Michele Sauchelli, Jacopo Montali and Mauro Overend

17. Additive Manufacturing in Skin Systems: Trends and Future Perspectives
Roberto Naboni and Nebojsa Jakica

18. Mass-Customization as the Convergent Vision for the Digital Transformation of the Manufacturing and the Building Industry
Gabriele Pasetti Monizza and Dominik T. Matt

19. Automation and Robotic Technologies in the Construction Context: Research Experience in Prefabricated Façade Modules
Kepa Iturralde, Wen Pan, Thomas Linner and Thomas Bock

20. Life Cycle Assessment in Façade Design
Linda Hildebrand, Ina Zirwes and Alina Kretschmer

21. Circular Economy in Façades
Mikkel K. Kragh and Nebojsa Jakica

22. Façades-as-a-Service: A Business and Supply-Chain Model for the Implementation of a Circular Façade Economy
Juan Francisco Azcarate-Aguerre, Annalisa Andaloro and Tilmann Klein
Afterword
lrich Knaack

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: December 5, 2021
  • Language: English

About the editors

EG

Eugenia Gasparri

Eugenia Gasparri is a Lecturer in Architectural Technologies at the University of Sydney. Her research experience is in the field of sustainable construction with a focus on envelope design, building prefabrication, and mass-timber technologies.
Affiliations and expertise
Lecturer in Architectural Technologies, School of Architecture, Design, and Planning, University of Sydney, NSW, Australia

AB

Arianna Brambilla

Arianna Brambilla is a Lecturer in Architecture at the University of Sydney. Her research draws upon architecture, building physics, and engineering to assess and interpret construction as a holistic concept, with a strong focus on sustainability.
Affiliations and expertise
Lecturer in Architecture, School of Architecture, Design, and Planning, University of Sydney, NSW, Australia.

GL

Gabriele Lobaccaro

Gabriele is an emerging researcher in renewable energy, with a focus on the digitalization of solar energy in the built environment. His background is grounded on building engineer and architecture knowledge and his expertise convers solar energy systems integration at building and district level, urban energy planning, smart cities, climate-based solutions, mitigation, and adaptation strategies, and environmental, microclimate, and energy analyses. He is contributing to advance the state-of-the-art of solar energy exploration and integration through the definition of solar neighborhoods’ archetypes, approaches, methods, and tools to accelerate the use of solar energy in built environments. Gabriele coordinated the Subtask C “Case studies and action research” in the IEA Task 51 Solar Energy in Urban Planning and now he is coordinating the Subtask D “Case studies” in the IEA Task 63 Solar Neighbourhood Planning and the activity A3 - BIPV in our society within IEA PVPS Task 15 - Enabling Framework for the Development of BIPV. Gabriele has experienced in several national (REINVENT and HELIOS), European (Exploit4InnoMat, RAMSES, and CoSSMic), and international research projects (SEniC, SiNoPSE, and iSTAR). Gabriele has co-/ author of more than 65 publications, including research and review articles in international high-impact peer-reviewed journals, national and international conference proceedings, book chapters, and books.
Affiliations and expertise
Associate Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway

FG

Francesco Goia

Francesco Goia is a Professor of Building Physics at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. His research focuses on advanced building envelopes and services providing high energy efficiency and indoor climate performance.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Building Physics, Faculty of Architecture and Design, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway

AA

Annalisa Andaloro

Annalisa Andaloro is a Senior Researcher at the Institute for Renewable Energy in EURAC, focusing on system integration and project economics. She coordinates an executive international training course on façade architecture, construction, and engineering (FACE).
Affiliations and expertise
Senior Researcher, Institute for Renewable Energy, EURAC Research, Bolzano, Italy.

AS

Alberto Sangiorgio

Alberto Sangiorgio is an Associate at Grimshaw Architects (Sydney) where he operates as façade engineer and sustainability manager. He has extensive international experience in the design, optimization, and construction of high-performing building envelopes.
Affiliations and expertise
Associate and Sustainability Manager, Grimshaw Architects, Sydney, NSW, Australia

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