Occupant-Oriented Adaptive Building Envelopes: A Hybrid Design Framework for Human, Material, Environment Synergies

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Abstract

While materially efficient, adaptive building envelopes often have difficulties in identifying and adapting to dynamic human sensations. This leads to perceived overheating or overcooling, with significant decrease in indoor environment quality. With a focus on thermal adaptive architectural surfaces, the paper investigates and outlines a hybrid design framework that aims to understand, map, and synthesize:

Material-Environment synergies, through the adaptive behavior of environmentally responsive material composites.

Human-Material synergies, through occupants’ behavioral actions for personal control and

Environment-Human synergies, through dynamic individual thermal comfort assessment.

The adaptation of this framework is further explored through a full-scale demonstrator, where methods and processes are evaluated for design applications in adaptive material systems, and their implications and further trajectories are discussed.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationStructures and Architecture - A Viable Urban Perspective? : Proceedings Of The Fifth International Conference On Structures and Architecture (ICSA 2022)
EditorsMarie Frier Hvejsel, Paulo J. S. Cruz
Number of pages8
PublisherCRC Press/Balkema
Publication dateJul 2022
Pages430-437
ISBN (Print)9780367902810
ISBN (Electronic)9781003023555
Publication statusPublished - Jul 2022
EventICSA2022: 5th International Conference on Structures and Architecture - CREATE, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark
Duration: 6 Jul 20228 Jul 2022
Conference number: 5
https://www.icsa2022.create.aau.dk/

Conference

ConferenceICSA2022
Number5
LocationCREATE, Aalborg University
Country/TerritoryDenmark
CityAalborg
Period06/07/202208/07/2022
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SeriesStructure and Architecture
Number2
ISSN2643-6698

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