Part C Special topics
Tsinghua University Campus, Beijing (CN) 2006, Mario Cucinella
Interest in facades specifically designed to take on specific functions is growing. This interest is of an experimental nature, on the one hand because building envelopes are being assigned entirely new functional characteristics for which different architectural solutions are currently still being sought. Sufficient experience with such solutions, with their long-term durability, for example, is still lacking. On the other hand, this interest opens up completely new design opportunities whose cogency in terms of the “logic of form” has yet to be proven. Technical correctness, construction methods suitable for specific materials and manufacturing technologies are all fundamentally import ant issues in this context. 237