INNOVATIVE STRUCTURES FOR DYNAMIC SOLAR FAADES Conference Paper uri icon

abstract

  • 2017 National Technical University of Athens. All rights reserved. Recent studies have investigated the use of tensegrity structures for the construction of active solar faades of Energy Efficient Buildings (EEBs). The present work moves along such lines by proposing a methodology that supports the development of the design and construction process of new faade components with tensegrity architecture. The activation motion of the examined tensegrity faade system mimics the dynamics a blinking sail. The use of the proposed faade system as a dynamic sun-screen or a wind-energy harvesting device is presented, with the aim of illustrating the application of tensegrity architectures to the design of next-generation dynamic solar faades of EEBs.

name of conference

  • Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Computational Methods in Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering (COMPDYN 2015)

published proceedings

  • Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Computational Methods in Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering (COMPDYN 2015)

author list (cited authors)

  • Miranda, R., Fabbrocino, F., Sicignano, E., Skelton, R. E., & Fraternali, F.

citation count

  • 0

complete list of authors

  • Miranda, Raffaele||Fabbrocino, Francesco||Sicignano, Enrico||Skelton, Robert E||Fraternali, Fernando

publication date

  • January 2017