Building spaces and surfaces are modelled according to the human perception at ground level: this will affect the openings and passages through the building as well as the quality of the open areas.
Solar radiation can be a positive gain in terms of «free heating» and daylight factor, as far as its power doesn’t exceed a certain limit value. At this last condition, a skin that is able to limit solar radiation is required, in order to guarantee a certain amount of thermal comfort. Therefore, the building envelope should provide a passive shading system through its shape.
The climate with which we are dealing is characterized by a great variety of thermal conditions, according to the different seasons of the year. Therefore, we think that adopting materials with a dynamic behavior could better express and partly solve our concerns about the relation between the internal and external environments.
The surrounding context presents a variety of different situations. Therefore, the definition of the relational spaces between the volumes will be affected by the choices taken in terms of openings, heights and shapes of our skin.
• Fog system with nitrogen gas, which provides a variable solar shading
• It uses the air’s density and makes it bigger(cushions)
• No obstraction for the view
• It is a laminate of two different metals together (a manganesenickel alloy and a darker manganese iron).
• When heated expands than other results curling effect.
• two consequences (sunlight and air control).
• Not mechanical process
• the temperature of the rooms can be controlled even when users are not in the buildings
• can not be controlled by the users of the building.
• This system would be suitable only for climates with a lot of sunny days.
• It consists of a number of tiltable metal flake bodies supplemented by individually controllable pneumatic cylinders.
• Flare turns the building facade into a penetrable kinetic membrane
• the individual flakes of the FLARE system act like pixels formed by natural light
• Each stainless steel flake reflects the bright sky or sunlight in the correct position
• Cannot be controlled by users
• Consumes lot of energy
