Rethinking Building Skins. Transformative Technologies and Research Trajectories. Woodhead Publishing Series in Civil and Structural Engineering

Table of Contents

1. Fa?ade Innovation: Past, Present, Future 2. Fa?ade Innovation: An Industry Perspective

Part 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

Authors

Eugenia Gasparri Lecturer in Architectural Technologies, School of Architecture, Design, and Planning, University of Sydney, NSW, Australia. 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 Lecturer in Architecture, School of Architecture, Design, and Planning, University of Sydney, NSW, Australia.. 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 Lobaccaro Associate Professor, Solar Design and Building Performance Simulation, Faculty of Engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway. Gabriele Lobaccaro is an Associate Professor in Solar Design and Building Performance Simulation at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. His research focuses on solar design and environmental analysis, energy and building technology, and sustainable and resilient built environments. Francesco Goia Professor, Building Physics, Faculty of Architecture and Design, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway. 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 Senior Researcher, Institute for Renewable Energy, EURAC Research, Bolzano, Italy.. 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 fa�ade architecture, construction, and engineering (FACE). Alberto Sangiorgio Associate and Sustainability Manager, Grimshaw Architects, Sydney, NSW, Australia. Alberto Sangiorgio is an Associate at Grimshaw Architects (Sydney) where he operates as fa�ade engineer and sustainability manager. He has extensive international experience in the design, optimization, and construction of high-performing building envelopes.