Category: Facades
News about facades
Nature can teach us all kinds of things about how to deal with the elements, but little is applied to the design of modern façades. What, for example,…
My recently published journal article about geometry and its role in shading systems. Gosztonyi, Susanne. The Role of Geometry for Adaptability: Comparison of Shading Systems and Biological Role…
A whole series of the COST Action “Adaptive Facades Network” is available for free download on the website: COST TU1403 Adaptive Facades Network – Dissemination. The COST publications…
On 26th and 27th November 2018, the Competence Centre Building Envelope of Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts will host the international conference FACADE 2018 at the KKL Lucerne,…
The special session about “Adaptive building envelopes” has been held on 17th May 2017 at the ICBEST 2017 – Interdisciplinary perspectives for future building envelopes in Istanbul, Turkey. The session…
Lars Kraakman worked on a complex topic, analyzing folding facade structures and their potential for energy performance optimization if applied on schools in Netherlands. he used Rhinoceros/Grasshopper to…
The international conference Powerskin in Munich is linked to the international fair BAU2017 and deals with innovative facade developments covering the fields Environment, Facades and Structure. I have the pleasure…
The international conference Facade2016 in Lucerne deals with questions about the future potentials for and role of building envelopes. I got the opportunity to do lecture about Biomimetics…
The international conference ICBEST 2017 targets at emerging building envelope systems and technologies and offers a worldwide forum for building envelope architecture and engineering. I have the honour to host…
Presentation of “architectural criteria for adapative facades” @ facade 2015 COMPUTATIONAL OPTIMIZATION in Detmold, Germany. What is the role of adaptive facades? The conference facade2015 dealt with the topic…
Presentation on: “Biomimetic principles for thermally adaptive façades: thermal adaptability in nature and engineering” @ 10th Conference on Advanced Building Skins, Bern, Switzerland. How can nature teach thermal adaptation for…
Organisation and moderation of 2 sessions “INNOVATIVE PRODUKTE I: MATERIALIEN FÜR FASSADEN. Showcase und Vorstellung technischer Visionen im Bereich intelligenter Fassaden.” @ Energie und Architektur, Vienna, Austria. The 4th congress “Energie und…
WORKSHOP ADAPTIVE FACADES – TU DELFT [FACADE WEEK] “The EFNmobile – “ThinkingSkins” workshop started on Monday, June 15th at the TU Delft. After an introduction by Susanne Gosztonyi about the…
BioSkin – Forschungspotenziale für bionisch inspirierte energieeffiziente Fassadentechnologien The basic research study “BioSkin – Research potentials for biologically inspired energy efficient façade systems” aimed at the identification of…