Responsive shading systems can dynamically improve indoor environmental conditions based on outdoor climate variations. Among the technologies,
Kinetic or responsive facades have been developed to improve buildings' daylighting conditions while mitigating energy consumption. Still, these
The United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs projects a world population growth of over three billion over our current, nearly eight
An Enclosure-Integrated, Daylighting, Tracking Solar Collector (EIDTSC) has been developed for market which integrates into a building’s fenestration
While most of high-rise buildings feature a core surrounded by a spatial frame defining the volume, one could envision a column-free plan where the
The prominence of climatically responsive building facades through the use of kinetics has proliferated in recent years due to a concern for the
Cost-effective, sustainable, self-actuating, thermally-responsive, bio-composite exo-skins that act like shields or cloaks for existing buildings
The project described in this paper explores the integration of custom-made soft robotic muscles into a component-based surface. This project is part
The conventional modern facade is essentially flat, which creates the tendency toward visual monotony and problems for modulating daylight—both on
Highly transformable materials can be used as adaptive exterior shading systems by leveraging the relationship between external stimuli (heat) and