Rethinking building skins : transformative technologies and research trajectories / edited by Eugenia Gasparri, [and 5 others].

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Facade innovation: between 'product' and 'process' -- Facade innovation: an industry perspective -- Part A Product innovation -- Urban overheating mitigation through faces: the role of new and innovative cool coatings -- The pursuit of transparency -- Advanced fenestration-technologies, performance and building integration -- Embedding intelligence to control adaptive building envelopes -- Biomimetic adaptive building skins: design and performance -- Building integrated photovoltaic facades: challenges, opportunities and innovations -- Unitized timber envelopes: the future generation of sustainable, high-performance, industrialized facades for construction decarbonization -- Industrialized renovation of the building envelope: realizing the potential to decarbonize the European building stock -- Vertical farming on facades: transforming building skins for urban food security -- Interactive media facades-research prototypes, application areas and future directions -- Part B Process innovation -- The building envelope: failing to understand complexity in tall building design -- Resilience by design: building facades for tomorrow -- Inverse design for advanced building envelope materials, systems and operation -- Towards automated design: knowledge-based engineering in facades -- Additive manufacturing in skin systems: trends and future perspectives -- Mass customization as the convergent vision for the digital transformation of the manufacturing and the building industry -- Automation and robotic technologies in the construction content: research experiences in prefabricated facade modules -- Life cycle assessment in facade design -- Circular economy in facades -- Facades-as-a-service: a business and supply-chain model for the implementation of a circular facade economy.

Rethinking Building Skins: Transformative Technologies and Research Trajectories provides a comprehensive collection of the most relevant and forward-looking research in the field of façade design and construction today, with a focus on both product and process innovation. The book brings together the expertise, creativity, and critical thinking of more than fifty global innovators from both academia and industry, to guide the reader in translating research into practice. It identifies new opportunities for the construction sector to respond to present challenges, towards a more sustainable, efficient, connected, and safe future.