Mokhtar, S;
Chronis, A;
Leung, C;
(2017)
Geometry-material coordination for passive adaptive solar morphing envelopes.
In: Turrin, M and Peters, B and O'Brien, W and Stouffs, R and Dogan, T, (eds.)
2017 Proceedings of the Symposium on Simulation for Architecture and Urban Design.
(pp. pp. 211-218).
The society for modeling and simulation international: Toronto, Canada.
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Abstract
The cost-intensive and mechanical complexity natures of the adaptive facades of the past decades drifted designers and researchers’ interest towards passive material-based actuation systems. Architectural applications using the latter showed, however, a few limitations restricting the output possibility space to options that rely entirely on one material’s phase characteristic. This study aims to investigate the potential of expanding a shape memory alloy-actuated facade’s output from one that is limited and hardly controllable in the case of entirely passive actuation to one that can produce a specific desired performative target. This is explored through coordinating between geometry movement connections of an adaptive component of four integrated shape memory alloys, which work on tailoring the geometry-material-climate relations of the responsive system. The research findings suggest that the integration of geometry, material, and their connections in the design of a SMA solar morphing envelope lead to the development of a wider range of behavioural system outputs. The variety instilled through these added dimensions promoted diversity and adaptability of output for a flexible range of responses and higher performative gains.
| Type: | Proceedings paper |
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| Title: | Geometry-material coordination for passive adaptive solar morphing envelopes |
| Event: | SimAUD |
| Location: | Toronto, Canada |
| Dates: | 22 May 2017 - 24 May 2017 |
| ISBN-13: | 978-1-365-88878-6 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Publisher version: | http://scs.org/scs-conference-proceedings-informat... |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | Material computation, Requisite variety, Solar morphing envelopes, Smart materials |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > The Bartlett School of Architecture |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1569887 |
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