Kinetic facades : how nature of components affects the applications of different transformation strategies

Abstract EN

In the current trend towards implementation of kinetic elements in buildingsfacades, a significant role is played by materials characteristics of integrated elements, and its effect on the responsive behavior of kinetic facades towards varying ambientconditions, represented through its motion and transformation strategies.

Afterreviewing a wide range of kinetic facades researches, it was noticed that differentresearch methodologies have been adopted mainly to study the apparent and generalcharacteristics of kinetic facades, to represent an outline of movable facade'sconfigurations and patterns morphology or to study different stimuli types and controlstrategies.

While this paper's main aim is to provide researchers and designers, whoare interested in the design and applications of kinetic facades with an overview of theinterconnected relation between applied materials and different transformationstrategies of kinetic facades.

The framework is divided into two parts at which the first part is considered tobe a descriptive display of a number of remarkable case studies with differentintegrated materials and transformation strategies, while the second part is acomparative analysis of facades behavior, followed by a discussion, which proposeselements with different materials characteristics that can be applied to achievespecific scope of movements.