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Designing adaptive facades with a new holistic eco-design approach
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ABSTRACT: Implementing the Eco-designed approach in the field of adaptive façade systems, primarily aims for the future sustainable targets to develop eco-friendly and socio-responsive technologies. This will be only possible when the adaptive façade systems track design strategies endeavouring to imitate the philosophy of “the self-sufficient unit in the nature called eco-system.” With the understanding of the future sustainable targets of adaptive systems and analysing its sustainably efficient elements with the help of already existing and scattered classification schemes from the data base developed within the work of the Cost Action TU 1403 Adaptive Façade Network (AFN), this approach attempts to develop a novel matrix for re-analysing these adaptive façade projects with an eco-design approach. The aim of this approach is to examine whether these adaptive façade projects from the data base are able to seamlessly integrate themselves in this approach and to what extent. The eco-design approach on the basis of the contiguous natural environment (i.e. location and climate type), conceives the adaptive façade projects as a unit-cell in the eco-system, which should naturally attempt to be a self-sufficient unit. Understanding this approach, the various principles of the adaptive façade systems in the projects from the database are analysed. This leads to characterizing the approach in a matrix of the biotic components of eco-system (producers, consumers and decomposers) and abiotic components of ecosystem (air, soil, water, temperature, pressure, inorganic substances, etc.). These two components
work collectively due to the naturally occurring energy transfer principles in amidst, known as conduction, indirect-solar, direct-solar and ventilation. The matrix also further characterizes the biotic components into active and passive systems, in order to avoid any error in analysing both, the direct and in-direct influences of the adaptive façade systems inside the project. The eco-design approach attempts to thoroughly analyse the extent of integration of this approach in the field of adaptive façade systems and to apprehend the further scope of research and development for the related industry.
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Sustainable architecture Energy efficiency Zero Energy Buildings Design strategies
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Vedula, N.; Aelenei, L.; Pottgiesser, U. - Designing adaptive facades with a new holistic eco-design approach. In: Facade 2018: Adaptive, Proceedings of the COST Action TU1403: Adaptive Facades Network Final Conference, Lucern, Switzerland, 26-27 november, 2018, p. 465-471