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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.
List of contents
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
About the author
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.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.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.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.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).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.
