
Rethinking Building Skins
Transformative Technologies and Research Trajectories
- 1st Edition - December 5, 2021
- Imprint: Woodhead Publishing
- Editors: Eugenia Gasparri, Arianna Brambilla, Gabriele Lobaccaro, Francesco Goia, Annalisa Andaloro, Alberto Sangiorgio
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 2 2 4 7 7 - 9
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 2 2 4 9 1 - 5
Rethinking Building Skins: Transformative Technologies and Research Trajectories provides a comprehensive collection of the most relevant and forward-looking research in the… Read more
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Request a sales quoteRethinking 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.
- 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
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.
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
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
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
- Edition: 1
- Published: December 5, 2021
- No. of pages (Paperback): 594
- Imprint: Woodhead Publishing
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128224779
- eBook ISBN: 9780128224915
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Eugenia Gasparri
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Arianna Brambilla
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Gabriele Lobaccaro
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Francesco Goia
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Annalisa Andaloro
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