What is it about?
Buildings are among the largest consumers of energy worldwide. As climate change intensifies and urban development accelerates, finding new ways to reduce energy use in the built environment has become essential. Smarter design of building envelopes offers significant potential for minimizing heating and cooling demands. This paper reviews innovative design approaches for adaptive mechanisms in lightweight building skins and inflatable ETFE foil constructions.
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Why is it important?
The study underscores the importance of designing buildings capable of adapting to changing climatic conditions and evolving user needs for thermal comfort. Such adaptability enables the construction of lighter buildings that require fewer materials and consume less energy throughout their life cycle. Building materials and construction technologies are central to achieving this objective, and this article reviews some of the latest advancements in ETFE-based applications.
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I’ve been exploring this topic for some time, yet I keep coming back to it. The many forms and possibilities of adaptive mechanisms continue to fascinate me and inspire my work in imagining, designing, and engineering performative building envelopes.
Dr. Jan-Frederik Flor
Taylor's University
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This page is a summary of: Dynamic environmental control mechanisms for pneumatic foil constructions, E3S Web of Conferences, January 2017, EDP Sciences,
DOI: 10.1051/e3sconf/20172200048.
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