Rethinking Building Skins: Transformative Technologies and Research Trajectories provides a comprehensive collection of the most relevant and forward-looking research in the field of fa�ade 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.
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Table of Contents
1. Fa?ade Innovation: Past, Present, Future 2. Fa?ade Innovation: An Industry PerspectivePart A: Product Innovation 3. New and Innovative Cool Coatings for Urban Overheating Mitigation through Fa?ades 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 Fa?ades: Challenges, Opportunities, and Innovations 9. Unitised Timber Envelopes: The Future Generation of Industrialised, High-Performance, Sustainable Fa?ades for Construction Decarbonisation 10. Industrialised Building Envelopes for Renovation: Realizing the Potential to Decarbonise the European Building Stock 11. Vertical Farming on Fa?ades: Transforming Building Skins for Urban Food Security 12. Interactive Media Fa?ades: 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 Fa?ades for Tomorrow 15. Inverse Design for Advanced Building Envelope Materials, Systems, and Operation 16. Towards Automated Design: Knowledge Based Engineering in Fa?ades 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 Fa?ade Modules 20. Life Cycle Assessment in Fa?ade Design 21. Circular Economy in Fa?ades 22. Fa?ades-as-a-Service: A Business and Supply-Chain Model for the Implementation of a Circular Fa?ade Economy