Transformable building envelope design plays a key role in energy performance and
sustainability of the built environment considering the thermal, lighting, acoustic, and visual …

Ecological thinking is the recognition of the dialectic unity between natural and man-made
environment, the respect to what exists around us, and the concomitant “openness” toward …

In this article authors discuss a design of static shading that has its aim to fulfill several
important requirements in order to provide a building's envelope design optimization. The …

Adaptive envelopes play a key role in space conditioning and solar heat gain (SHG);
moreover, have great potential to conduce to building sustainability by reducing heating …

Recent statistics have shown that the building sector accounts for 40% of the global energy
consumption. This proportion is significantly greater than that of the transportation sector …

Sliding Sudare has a big potential to be developed considered its high effectiveness in
minimizing building energy consumption while still maintaining its visibility quality …

Adaptive façades can be a solution to many urban aspects such as sustainability and energy
efficiency. Along these lines, a parametric analysis has been conducted to investigate the …