SMART FACADE
Energetic Potentials of Adaptive Facade Systems

_{Prof. Brian Cody, Dipl.-Ing. Aleksandar Tepavcevic, MArch Mag.arch. BA M.Eng. Christiane Wermke, Dipl.-Ing. Daniel Podmirseg, Dipl.-Ing. Sebastian Sautter}

The building skin as the "system boundary" between the interior and exterior environment is essentially responsible for the input or reduction of room loads and thus for a comfortable indoor climate, which should be maintained as energy-efficiently as possible. It is therefore desirable that the building skin should have a pronounced ability to adapt to the environment, to conditions in the interior and to user behaviour. Up to now, almost all building facades have largely fixed properties, which can usually only be changed in a few steps in a simple manner and thus do not meet the complex requirements. There is a need for optimisation with regard to a more precise reaction to temporally variable influencing variables. The aim of the work is to determine which properties an ideal building envelope should assume under which conditions and at which time. The energetic potentials of "smart", adaptive facades, which achieve maximum energy efficiency and maximum comfort through the possibility of variable physical properties, are systematically investigated. The "smart" façade concept uses weather forecasts, predicted future user behaviour (based on past experience and using an integrated approach of artificial intelligence) and current requirements and boundary conditions to assume physical properties that lead to energy-optimised performance and comfort for the user. A novel and innovative dynamic simulation model will be developed especially for this project. The study serves as a basis for the development and implementation of new building envelopes and their control in different climatic regions with partners from science and industry.

Duration

01. June 2015 - 31. March 2016

Publications

Cody, B.: “Adaptive Building Skins”, in: conference proceedings, Worlds Sustainable Energy Days, Februar 2016, Wels, Österreich

Cody, B.: „Adaptive building skins in real life. “ – in Conference Proceedings, „European Smart Windows Conference“ im Rahmen der „World Sustainable Energy Days 2015“ . Wels, Österreich, 2015

Cody, B.: "Smart Facade, energetische Potentiale von adaptiven Fassadensystemen", FFG, Graz 2016

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