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Mapping Advanced Facades
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This paper describes the development of an interactive map that highlights case studies of advanced facade design strategies and technologies from around the world. The overarching goal of this project is to disseminate information about best practices for climate responsive building design as showcased through facades. The non-profit project, led by the Center for the Built Environment at UC Berkeley and the Polytechnic University of Bari, Italy, was launched in 2020 and aims to serve design professionals, students, academics and others.
This curation process required the authors to grapple with numerous subjective and objective measures, and defining exactly what constitutes a high-performing facade. The authors also considered what performance metrics can be applied in the selection process, while also allowing for a wide range of innovative and diverse examples. The authors focused on nine facade considerations relevant to the creation of sustainable and comfortable buildings: daylight and solar control, natural ventilation, noise control, embodied carbon, energy generation, and innovative insulation systems.
Another goal of this project has been to include technical information. As part of this process, the authors devised a detailed facade taxonomy. This taxonomy has been integrated into the authors site design, so users can filter the list of projects based on the characteristics or relevance to a specific task. To capture such detail, an online form allows project team members, the gatekeepers of these technical details, to directly and conveniently provide project information. Such information has been provided by firms such as Foster + Partners, DIALOG and Transsolar/KlimaEngineering.
Mapping Advanced Facades
https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0009-0009-8706-5248
https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6016-9658
This paper describes the development of an interactive map that highlights case studies of advanced facade design strategies and technologies from around the world. The overarching goal of this project is to disseminate information about best practices for climate responsive building design as showcased through facades. The non-profit project, led by the Center for the Built Environment at UC Berkeley and the Polytechnic University of Bari, Italy, was launched in 2020 and aims to serve design professionals, students, academics and others.
This curation process required the authors to grapple with numerous subjective and objective measures, and defining exactly what constitutes a high-performing facade. The authors also considered what performance metrics can be applied in the selection process, while also allowing for a wide range of innovative and diverse examples. The authors focused on nine facade considerations relevant to the creation of sustainable and comfortable buildings: daylight and solar control, natural ventilation, noise control, embodied carbon, energy generation, and innovative insulation systems.
Another goal of this project has been to include technical information. As part of this process, the authors devised a detailed facade taxonomy. This taxonomy has been integrated into the authors site design, so users can filter the list of projects based on the characteristics or relevance to a specific task. To capture such detail, an online form allows project team members, the gatekeepers of these technical details, to directly and conveniently provide project information. Such information has been provided by firms such as Foster + Partners, DIALOG and Transsolar/KlimaEngineering.
Mapping Advanced Facades
https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0009-0009-8706-5248
https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6016-9658
This paper describes the development of an interactive map that highlights case studies of advanced facade design strategies and technologies from around the world. The overarching goal of this project is to disseminate information about best practices for climate responsive building design as showcased through facades. The non-profit project, led by the Center for the Built Environment at UC Berkeley and the Polytechnic University of Bari, Italy, was launched in 2020 and aims to serve design professionals, students, academics and others.
This curation process required the authors to grapple with numerous subjective and objective measures, and defining exactly what constitutes a high-performing facade. The authors also considered what performance metrics can be applied in the selection process, while also allowing for a wide range of innovative and diverse examples. The authors focused on nine facade considerations relevant to the creation of sustainable and comfortable buildings: daylight and solar control, natural ventilation, noise control, embodied carbon, energy generation, and innovative insulation systems.
Another goal of this project has been to include technical information. As part of this process, the authors devised a detailed facade taxonomy. This taxonomy has been integrated into the authors site design, so users can filter the list of projects based on the characteristics or relevance to a specific task. To capture such detail, an online form allows project team members, the gatekeepers of these technical details, to directly and conveniently provide project information. Such information has been provided by firms such as Foster + Partners, DIALOG and Transsolar/KlimaEngineering.
Mapping Advanced Facades
Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering
Berardi, Umberto (editor) / Lamberti, Vito (author) / Lehrer, David (author)
International Association of Building Physics ; 2024 ; Toronto, ON, Canada
2024-12-06
6 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
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