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Rethinking Building Skins
Transformative Technologies and Research Trajectories
Considers the multidisciplinary field of façade design and construction, presenting emerging trends and major research trajectories worldwide, with an emphasis on putting new solutions from various research specialised areas to practical use
Eugenia Gasparri (Edited by), Arianna Brambilla (Edited by), Gabriele Lobaccaro (Edited by), Francesco Goia (Edited by), Annalisa Andaloro (Edited by), Alberto Sangiorgio (Edited by)
9780128224779, Elsevier Science
Paperback, published 8 December 2021
594 pages, 13 illustrations (8 in full color)
22.9 x 15.2 x 3.7 cm, 0.93 kg
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.
1. Façade Innovation: Past, Present, Future 2. Façade Innovation: An Industry Perspective Part A: Product Innovation 3. New and Innovative Cool Coatings for Urban Overheating Mitigation through Façades 4. The Pursuit of Transparency 5. Advanced Fenestration: Technologies, Performance, and Building Integration 6. Embedding Intelligence to Control Adaptive Building Envelope 7. Biomimetic Adaptive Building Skins: Design and Performance 8. Building Integrated Photovoltaic Façades: Challenges, Opportunities, and Innovations 9. Unitised Timber Envelopes: The Future Generation of Industrialised, High-Performance, Sustainable Façades for Construction Decarbonisation 10. Industrialised Building Envelopes for Renovation: Realizing the Potential to Decarbonise the European Building Stock 11. Vertical Farming on Façades: Transforming Building Skins for Urban Food Security 12. Interactive Media Façades: Research Prototypes, Application Areas, and Future Directions Part B: Process Innovation 13. The Building Envelope: Failing to Understand Complexity in Tall Building Design 14. Resilience by Design: Building Façades for Tomorrow 15. Inverse Design for Advanced Building Envelope Materials, Systems, and Operation 16. Towards Automated Design: Knowledge Based Engineering in Façades 17. Additive Manufacturing in Skin Systems: Trends and Future Perspectives 18. Mass-Customization as the Convergent Vision for the Digital Transformation of the Manufacturing and the Building Industry 19. Automation and Robotic Technologies in the Construction Context: Research Experience in Prefabricated Façade Modules 20. Life Cycle Assessment in Façade Design 21. Circular Economy in Façades 22. Façades-as-a-Service: A Business and Supply-Chain Model for the Implementation of a Circular Façade Economy
Subject Areas: Engineering graphics & technical drawing [TBG], Architectural structure & design [AMC]
