Although their potential for high environmental performance is largely accepted, adaptive
façades have not yet become widespread in practice. Most of the current examples are …

Climate change and the rising global population demand innovative and sustainable
approaches for reducing energy and resource consumption as well as emissions per …

Adaptive façades (AF), unlike conventional façades, respond to their environment to reduce
energy consumption while increasing comfort. The planning of AF presents architects and …

Adaptive façades (AFs) offer a range of benefits by automatically changing their properties to
promote improved shading, ventilation, or communication features. These can enable …

The widespread use of adaptive façades (AF) is currently still hindered by numerous
challenges. The aim of this article is to identify the challenges associated with AF by means …

Adaptive building envelopes can provide improvements in building energy efficiency and
economics, through their capability to change their behaviour in real time according to …

An adaptive façade has the ability to repeatedly and reversibly change some of its functions,
features or behavior over time in response to changing performance requirements and …

Adaptive façades can improve the building's energy efficiency and economics, through their
capability to change their behaviour in real time according to indoor-outdoor parameters, by …

During the last decades, a great number of innovative building envelope materials, products,
and façade systems have been developed. The majority of these progressive technologies …

Today's society needs to face challenging targets relating to environment and energy
efficiency, and therefore the development of efficient façade systems is essential. Innovative …