Environmental design goals Environmental conditions within the laboratories and their support spaces demand high volumes of treated air to maintain safe and comfortable working conditions for research staff and their students. The overall design team environmental conditions objectives were to design a building with a DSF to the offices, which reduces the annual energy consumption. The design g...

Double Skin Façades (DSFs) have become widespread solutions commonly employed in new and existing buildings the last decades. Since its introduction, multi-layered façade has improved profoundly, assuming more articulate complex shapes for better energy performances combining advanced technologies as innovative materials or systems. However, effectiveness thermal behaviour of DSFs should be car...

Adaptive façades are gaining greater importance in highly efficient buildings under a warming climate. There is an increasing demand for adaptive designed to regulate solar and thermal gains/losses, as well avoid discomfort glare issues. Occupants developers of office ask healthy energy-neutral working environment. appropriate dynamic solutions controlled automatically or through occupant inter...

This paper aims at façade reconstruction for subsequent enrichment of LOD2 building models. We use point clouds from dense image matching with imagery both from Mobile Mapping systems and oblique airborne cameras. The interpretation of façade structures is based on a geometric reconstruction. For this purpose a pre-segmentation of the point cloud into façade points and non-façade points is nece...