Dynamic design framework for mediated bioresponsive building envelopes
Authors
Krietemeyer, Elizabeth Anne
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Dyson, Anna H.
Vollen, Jason
Eglash, Ron, 1958-
Radke, Richard J., 1974-
Vollen, Jason
Eglash, Ron, 1958-
Radke, Richard J., 1974-
Issue Date
2013-08
Keywords
Architectural sciences
Degree
PhD
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Abstract
Existing knowledge in sustainable building technology is often predicated on achieving certain quantitative benchmarks while overlooking the complex relationship between people and their environment and the discrepancy between individual and collective desires. This is partly due to isolated experimental processes with limited single-scale focus that lack critical input or feedback from the future users of the technologies. Recent developments in emerging display technologies have the potential to actively reconfigure their basic patterns to respond to fluctuating bioclimatic flows while simultaneously adjusting to the changing visual desires of occupants. Electroactive display technologies demonstrate a significantly new opportunity for dynamic façade applications that enable instantaneously switchable patterns to be embedded within the surfaces of insulated glazing units. As choreographers of mediated bioresponsive building envelopes, new dynamic design frameworks are required to anticipate the fundamentally new architectural implications of their dynamic material behavior, particularly in response to inevitable conflicts between aesthetic desires and environmental performance criteria.
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August 2013
School of Architecture
School of Architecture
Department
School of Architecture
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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
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