Design approaches and typologies of adaptive facades: A review
TL;DR: A review based on a systematic search is conducted to outline possible design approaches towards non-conventional adaptive facades (AFs) through simulations at early stage of design and distinguish the existing adaptive system typologies based on their key characteristics.
About: This article is published in Automation in Construction.The article was published on 2021-01-01. It has received 60 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Daylighting & Daylight harvesting.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors proposed an environment-interactive novel Trombe wall system, which was a passive building envelope integrated with phase change material (PCM) based on traditional Trombbe wall.
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TL;DR: This paper aims to compare the most used control functions and their implications on user comfort and energy load in different climate zones using EnergyPlus as a simulation platform and results showed that climatic conditions impact the shading control scenario significantly.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide a critical overview of the possibilities that co-simulation approaches offer to improve performance assessments of advanced building envelopes, and present current barriers to cosimulation and discusses critical elements to overcome them.
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TL;DR: As a major finding, occupant-centric control is limited to certain applications, which imposes thinking of a new innovative shading control strategy that counterbalances antagonistic phenomena and can enhance both user's comfort desires and building's energy efficiency especially in a shared working environment.
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TL;DR: The comprehensive annual climate-based metrics and luminance-based metric simulation confirm the high performance of the bio-inspired complex kinetic facade for improving occupants’ daylight performance and preventing visual discomfort in comparison with the simple plain window as the base case.
Abstract: Many recent studies in the field of the kinetic facade developed the grid-based modular forms through primary kinetic movements which are restricted in the simple shapes However, learning from biological analogies reveals that plants and trees provide adjustable daylighting strategies by means of multilayered and curvature morphological changes This research builds on a relevant literature study, observation, biomimicry morphological approach (top-down), and parametric daylighting simulation to develop a multilayered biomimetic kinetic facade form, inspired by tree morphology to improve occupants’ daylight performance The first part of the research uses a literature review to explore how biomimicry influences the kinetic facade’s functions Then, the study applies the biomimicry morphological approach to extract the formal strategies of tress due to dynamic daylight Concerning functional convergence, the biomimicry principles are translated to the kinetic facade form configuration and movements The extracted forms and movements are translated into the design solutions for the kinetic facade resulting in the flexible form by using intersected-multilayered skin and kinetic vectors with curvature movements The comprehensive annual climate-based metrics and luminance-based metric simulation (625 alternatives) confirm the high performance of the bio-inspired complex kinetic facade for improving occupants’ daylight performance and preventing visual discomfort in comparison with the simple plain window as the base case The kinetic facade provides daylight performance improvement, especially the best case achieves spatial Daylight Autonomy, Useful Daylight Illuminance, and Exceed Useful Daylight Illuminance of 506, 855, 755 respectively
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TL;DR: Few review types possess prescribed and explicit methodologies and many fall short of being mutually exclusive, but this typology provides a valuable reference point for those commissioning, conducting, supporting or interpreting reviews, both within health information and the wider health care domain.
Abstract: Background and objectives : The expansion of evidence-based practice across sectors has lead to an increasing variety of review types. However, the diversity of terminology used means that the full potential of these review types may be lost amongst a confusion of indistinct and misapplied terms. The objective of this study is to provide descriptive insight into the most common types of reviews, with illustrative examples from health and health information domains. Methods : Following scoping searches, an examination was made of the vocabulary associated with the literature of review and synthesis (literary warrant). A simple analytical framework—Search, AppraisaL, Synthesis and Analysis (SALSA)—was used to examine the main review types. Results : Fourteen review types and associated methodologies were analysed against the SALSA framework, illustrating the inputs and processes of each review type. A description of the key characteristics is given, together with perceived strengths and weaknesses. A limited number of review types are currently utilized within the health information domain. Conclusions : Few review types possess prescribed and explicit methodologies and many fall short of being mutually exclusive. Notwithstanding such limitations, this typology provides a valuable reference point for those commissioning, conducting, supporting or interpreting reviews, both within health information and the wider health care domain.
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