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Many operable and complementary layers make up a vernacular adaptive envelope. With vertical operable translucent textile blinds, horizontal foldable glass doors with thin structural framing, wooden horizontal foldable frames with vertical rotational shutters, plants with dynamic densities, humidity concentrations, and opaque operable textile blinds forming the deep responsive façades of many Southern European buildings as part of the building envelope. This low-tech configuration utilizes behavioral human interaction with the building. On their own, these are singular mechanisms, but as coupled systems, they become highly advanced adaptive building systems used to balance temperature sensations. The research investigates such an adaptive envelope structure through identification of operable elements and their thermal and energy performances through computer simulation models. The designed research computational model includes assessment of heat reception and transfer, resultant operative temperatures, and adaptive comfort sensations. The aim of the research and the material presented in this paper is understanding the performance of native, local, low-tech systems as an opposing approach to contemporary high-tech, complex mechanical systems. The study finds that the operable elements and various compositions make a significant, yet less than anticipated, impact on adaptive thermal comfort temperatures.
Isak Worre Foged. Thermal Responsive Performances of a Spanish Balcony-Based Vernacular Envelope. Buildings 2019, 9, 80 .
AMA StyleIsak Worre Foged. Thermal Responsive Performances of a Spanish Balcony-Based Vernacular Envelope. Buildings. 2019; 9 (4):80.
Chicago/Turabian StyleIsak Worre Foged. 2019. "Thermal Responsive Performances of a Spanish Balcony-Based Vernacular Envelope." Buildings 9, no. 4: 80.
The paper presents an architectural computational method and model, which, through additive and subtractive processes, create composite elements with bending behaviour based on thermal variations in the surrounding climatic environment. The present effort is focused on the manipulation of assembly composite layers and their relative layer lengths thereby embedding the merged material effect to create a responsive behavioural architectural envelope. Copper and polypropylene are used as base materials for the composite structure due to their high differences in thermal expansion, surface emissivity alterations, their respective durability and copper’s architectural (visual and transformative) aesthetic qualities. Through the use of an evolutionary solver, the composite structure of the elements are organised to find the bending behaviour specified by and for the thermal environments. The entire model includes the calculation of bending behaviour, the calculation of perceived temperatures inside the envelope and the evolutionary module, which in a design process advance the composite structure in relation to the thermal environment desired. The research presents the methods used and developed, the way in which the behavioural composites are organised in modules and how they act and perform. Furthermore, a large full-scale prototype is made as a demonstrator and experimental setup for post-construct analysis and evaluation of the design research. The work finds that the presented method and model can create ‘programmed’ responsive composite architectural envelopes and that the organisational method of nested modular elements with nested responsive composites enables a modular building method with embedded dynamic responsive properties.
Isak Worre Foged; Anke Pasold. Thermal Responsive Envelope: Computational Assembling Behavioural Composites by Additive and Subtractive Processes. Modelling Behaviour 2015, 113 -122.
AMA StyleIsak Worre Foged, Anke Pasold. Thermal Responsive Envelope: Computational Assembling Behavioural Composites by Additive and Subtractive Processes. Modelling Behaviour. 2015; ():113-122.
Chicago/Turabian StyleIsak Worre Foged; Anke Pasold. 2015. "Thermal Responsive Envelope: Computational Assembling Behavioural Composites by Additive and Subtractive Processes." Modelling Behaviour , no. : 113-122.