The European Construction Sector Observatory outlined that green building envelopes as roofs and walls contribute to the reduction of energy demand CO2 emissions due air conditioning in summer periods, mitigation heat islands urban areas. For this reason, understanding about contribution greening infrastructures on buildings sustainable use for is urgent. This paper focuses analysis a vertical ...

Textile Reinforced Concrete (TRC) is a composite material made of open-meshed textile structures and a fine-grained concrete. Comparable to steel reinforcement the textile fabric bears the tensile forces released by the cracking of the concrete. Only a minimal concrete cover is required for the bond of the textile fabrics. Thus, the application of TRC leads to the design of filigree and lightwe...

Typification is a well-established operator of map generalization. Although it is widely used in many existing research fields, less discussion has been devoted to the quality of typification. This paper presents a user survey for the evaluation of different typification results of façade structures under different constraints. The survey shows that preservation of the shape of the features is ...

The solar façade of the FIAT Research Center (CRF) was realized recently near Turin in Italy, under cooperation between CRF and Politecnico di Milano. The photovoltaic elements, that has a total power of 19.5 kWp, produces electric energy, while the forced air circulation beneath the modules recovers the thermal fraction of captured solar radiation and cools the cells as well. The electricity g...

In order to create high impact low-carbon architecture it is necessary to address issues at the urban scale. This paper reviews methods adopted in the UK, Hong Kong and America and develops a series of themes that should be incorporated in modern city development strategies to produce green and sustainable outcomes. These are concerned with: planning policies and building regulations; neighborh...

In the perspective of the Net Zero Energy Buildings as specified in the EPBD 2010/31/EU, we propose the concept and design of a modular unglazed solar thermal (UST) façade component for facilitating the installation of active solar façades. The renovation of existing buildings offers an opportunity to improve the energy efficiency when using such a system and a novel design methodology tackled ...

The impacts of building envelope designs are significant on indoor thermal environment, especially for naturally ventilated buildings. Parametric façade studies were investigated for various orientations, window sizes and shading devices by using building simulation (ESP-r) and CFD (FLUENT) coupling program to predict indoor thermal environment in an accurate and quick way. Two typical weeks we...

The main focus of this work was the simulation and optimization of a BIPV-façade-system configuration through the development of simulations using the software ”TRNSYS”. First, several limitations and constraints within the TRNSYS framework needed to be solved to develop a reliable simulation environment. Various parameters were detected which are influencing the temperature distribution over a...