Advanced building envelopes: design and construction methods

This study examines the theoretical and instrumental contents concerning the executive design of building envelope systems, considered as an operational and cognitive apparatus aimed at planning, managing and guiding the on-site production and construction processes. The executive design is defined as means of knowledge and action aimed at modeling, anticipating and simulating the production and construction reality, and whose objective is to lead, guide and “materialize” the practical implementation, according to the development of the technical devices aimed both at structuring the contents, the rules and the design data, and at the feasibility assessment. The study is defined as a sum of research and didactic activities including the analysis relating both to the references concerning the technological design culture, and the executive design practices carried out in the contemporary scenario. Furthermore, the study aims at developing a fundamental theoretical system concerning the executive design of building envelope systems, whereby to proceed with the configuration of the layout related to the specific subject area and with the in-depth analysis of educational aspects (with respect to the impartation of technical and operational ability and practical and instrumental knowledge), procedural aspects (with respect to the development of organizational and management processes in a production and construction context) and notional and regulatory aspects (with respect to the methods of drawing and use of the executive design).