Intelligent Envelopes for High-Performance Buildings Design and Stra
This book presents a series of significant methods and examples for the design of sustainable intelligent facades in a variety of contexts. Emphasis is placed on how intelligence has been applied for successful energy-saving efforts in the planning of bui
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Guedi Capeluto Carlos Ernesto Ochoa
Intelligent Envelopes for High-Performance Buildings Design and Strategy
Green Energy and Technology
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Guedi Capeluto Carlos Ernesto Ochoa •
Intelligent Envelopes for High-Performance Buildings Design and Strategy
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Guedi Capeluto Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning Technion IIT Haifa Israel
ISSN 1865-3529 Green Energy and Technology ISBN 978-3-319-39254-7 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-39255-4
Carlos Ernesto Ochoa Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning Technion IIT Haifa Israel
ISSN 1865-3537
(electronic)
ISBN 978-3-319-39255-4
(eBook)
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Preface
The role of the building envelope is primarily to act as a barrier between inside and outside and, in this way, provide privacy and protection for its inhabitants from external environmental factors (sun, wind, and rain), while retaining thermal comfort, a healthy living environment and the ability to see outside. One may, moreover, argue that the building envelope serves as a mediator, reconciling inside and outside, so that the building’s relationship to its nearby surroundings is established. Indeed, one may observe throughout history the manner and degree to which such functions have been changed and upgraded in response to emerging technologies and materials. Alongside newly defined needs, building envelopes have to answer to changing demands for comfort and occupants’ relation to their environment. This book was motivated by the worrying realization that often, architects overlook some of the original functions of the building skin, passing v
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