| Title |
Responsive Pneumatic Facade with Adaptive Openings for Natural Ventilation |
| Authors |
Lee, Jisun ; Lee, Hyunsoo |
| DOI |
https://doi.org/10.5659/JAIK_PD.2017.33.12.29 |
| Keywords |
Responsive facade ; Pneumatic skin ; Natural ventilation ; Biomimetics ; Computational fluid dynamics |
| Abstract |
The building skins are important architectural elements in both functional and aesthetical aspects. This study focuses on developing a responsive facade with autonomous opening and closing behaviors in accordance with environmental conditions and user requirements for natural ventilation for the office building. The pneumatic ETFE panels are applied as the skin materials taking advantage of the efficiency of the inflatable skin of lightness, architectural performance and sustainable material properties. The biomimetic design methodology is taken for its innovative and visionary concept for the facade design. The interpretation of the building facade in analogy to natural organisms delivers functional and aesthetic characters. By exploring the structural movements of the plant pores, the facade control is developed to be autonomous by the parameter values. The facade opening and closing configurations are derived through parametric modeling and visualization programming. Through the application of this study, expected results are to improve user comfort and energy efficiency. |