Description

The building envelope is the most responsible part of energy consumption in buildings due to the ability to “determine indoor physical environment related to thermal comfort, visual comfort, and even occupancy working efficiency, thus affecting energy usages in buildings”. And the methods of manufacture used today are very dangerous because many of the consumer construction materials are harmful to the environment. At the moment, most envelopes don’t interact and don’t react to the different factors in their surrounding environment. Given how natural skin protects the interior from the external environment, architectural skin looks dim compared to that. The desired development of the building envelope goes beyond the concept of the insulating membrane only but aspires to reach the level of interaction and response to the external environment conditions.