Future Façade Systems. Technological Culture and Experimental Perspectives

The study examines the contents and the methodological and systemic guidelines concerning building façades, which are expressed in terms of morpho-typological, environmental, interactive and energy characters, according to the procedures of integrated operations with regard to the interaction with environmental, climatic and energy loads. In this respect, the study focuses on the dynamic and reactive behavior, mediation and interchange practices in relation to the control and conveyance of thermal, light and air flows, along with the calibration of components according to energy performances. The study is developed in accordance with the procedures of dematerialization, interconnection and permeability of building façades, by deepening the constituent practices of textures aimed at spatial, perceptual and evocative connections. The examination of façades relates to conceptual and experimental practices according to the development of plastic, organic and kinematic morpho-genetic processes, extended to a three-dimensional digital modeling and topology optimization aimed at calibrating performances and physical and geometric characteristics. In addition, this research considers the development of façade surfaces in communicative and interactive form as a medium for visual and mediatic transmission.