Rethinking Building Skins

Eugenia Gasparri is a Lecturer in Architectural Technologies at the University of Sydney. Her research experience is in the field of sustainable construction with a focus on envelope design, building prefabrication, and mass-timber technologies. Arianna Brambilla is a Lecturer in Architecture at the University of Sydney. Her research draws upon architecture, building physics, and engineering to assess and interpret construction as a holistic concept, with a strong focus on sustainability. Gabriele is an emerging researcher in renewable energy, with a focus on the digitalization of solar energy in the built environment. His background is grounded on building engineer and architecture knowledge and his expertise convers solar energy systems integration at building and district level, urban energy planning, smart cities, climate-based solutions, mitigation, and adaptation strategies, and environmental, microclimate, and energy analyses. He is contributing to advance the state-of-the-art of solar energy exploration and integration through the definition of solar neighborhoods’ archetypes, approaches, methods, and tools to accelerate the use of solar energy in built environments. Gabriele coordinated the Subtask C “Case studies and action research” in the IEA Task 51 Solar Energy in Urban Planning and now he is coordinating the Subtask D “Case studies” in the IEA Task 63 Solar Neighbourhood Planning and the activity A3 - BIPV in our society within IEA PVPS Task 15 - Enabling Framework for the Development of BIPV. Gabriele has experienced in several national (REINVENT and HELIOS), European (Exploit4InnoMat, RAMSES, and CoSSMic), and international research projects (SEniC, SiNoPSE, and iSTAR). Gabriele has co-/ author of more than 65 publications, including research and review articles in international high-impact peer-reviewed journals, national and international conference proceedings, book chapters, and books. Francesco Goia is a Professor of Building Physics at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. His research focuses on advanced building envelopes and services providing high energy efficiency and indoor climate performance. Annalisa Andaloro is a Senior Researcher at the Institute for Renewable Energy in EURAC, focusing on system integration and project economics. She coordinates an executive international training course on façade architecture, construction, and engineering (FACE). Alberto Sangiorgio is an Associate at Grimshaw Architects (Sydney) where he operates as façade engineer and sustainability manager. He has extensive international experience in the design, optimization, and construction of high-performing building envelopes.

1. Façade Innovation: Past, Present, Future 2. Façade Innovation: An Industry Perspective

Part A: Product Innovation 3. New and Innovative Cool Coatings for Urban Overheating Mitigation through Façades 4. The Pursuit of Transparency 5. Advanced Fenestration: Technologies, Performance, and Building Integration 6. Embedding Intelligence to Control Adaptive Building Envelope 7. Biomimetic Adaptive Building Skins: Design and Performance 8. Building Integrated Photovoltaic Façades: Challenges, Opportunities, and Innovations 9. Unitised Timber Envelopes: The Future Generation of Industrialised, High-Performance, Sustainable Façades for Construction Decarbonisation 10. Industrialised Building Envelopes for Renovation: Realizing the Potential to Decarbonise the European Building Stock 11. Vertical Farming on Façades: Transforming Building Skins for Urban Food Security 12. Interactive Media Façades: Research Prototypes, Application Areas, and Future Directions

Part B: Process Innovation 13. The Building Envelope: Failing to Understand Complexity in Tall Building Design 14. Resilience by Design: Building Façades for Tomorrow 15. Inverse Design for Advanced Building Envelope Materials, Systems, and Operation 16. Towards Automated Design: Knowledge Based Engineering in Façades 17. Additive Manufacturing in Skin Systems: Trends and Future Perspectives 18. Mass-Customization as the Convergent Vision for the Digital Transformation of the Manufacturing and the Building Industry 19. Automation and Robotic Technologies in the Construction Context: Research Experience in Prefabricated Façade Modules 20. Life Cycle Assessment in Façade Design 21. Circular Economy in Façades 22. Façades-as-a-Service: A Business and Supply-Chain Model for the Implementation of a Circular Façade Economy