KINETIC FACADES: HOW NATURE OF COMPONENTS AFFECTS THE APPLICATIONS OF DIFFERENT TRANSFORMATION STRATEGIES

Document Type : Original Article

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1 Assistant lecturer,Architecture Dep., Faculty of Engineering-Mattaria, Helwan University

2 lecturer Architecture Dep., Faculty of Engineering-Mattaria, Helwan University

Abstract

In the current trend towards implementation of kinetic elements in buildings
facades, a significant role is played by materials characteristics of integrated elements,
and its effect on the responsive behavior of kinetic facades towards varying ambient
conditions, represented through its motion and transformation strategies. After
reviewing a wide range of kinetic facades researches, it was noticed that different
research methodologies have been adopted mainly to study the apparent and general
characteristics of kinetic facades, to represent an outline of movable facade's
configurations and patterns morphology or to study different stimuli types and control
strategies. While this paper’s main aim is to provide researchers and desig
ners, who
are interested in the design and applications of kinetic facades with an overview of the
interconnected relation between applied materials and different transformation
strategies of kinetic facades.
The framework is divided into two parts at which the first part is considered to
be a descriptive display of a number of remarkable case studies with different
integrated materials and transformation strategies, while the second part is a
comparative analysis of facades behavior, followed by a discussion, which proposes
elements with different materials characteristics that can be applied to achieve
specific scope of movements.

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