Special session: Adaptive Building Skins for Energy Saving and User Comfort in 12nd Conference on Advanced Building Skins, Bern, Switzerland

Special session: Adaptive Building Skins for Energy Saving and User Comfort Chair: Roberta Cocci Grifoni, University of Camerino, Italy Design and evaluation of a prototype responsive wall system Building envelope, wall panel Phase change materials, climate responsive design Building façade technology Giuseppe Losco, University of Camerino, Italy Experimenting with sustainable building skins in an existing building Towards NZEB in the University Campus at the Technical University Madrid Sustainable experimental skins installed in an existing building Reducing energy consumption and improving indoor thermal comfort Francesca Olivieri, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain Dynamic simulation of a solar air heater and experimental measurements Solar air heater solution incorporating photovoltaic glass Experimental measurements using a test cell Validation of a dynamic simulation model Nuno Simões, ITeCons, Coimbra, Portugal Modeling and simulation of complex façade systems Simulation of luminous and energy performance of complex façades Model parameters, simulation settings, façade characteristics Climate-based daylight modeling Sergio Altomonte, Faculty of Engineering, University of Nottingham, UK Adaptive forms and materials for energy efficient buildings skins Adaptive building skins for a high indoor and outdoor comfort level Design with performance-based form-finding methods Energy performance in different climate zones Monica Rossi-Schwarzenbeck, HTWK Leipzig, Germany I-M Cool: I-Mesh cool façade to reduce the urban heat island effect Cool façades using a thermal computational fluid dynamics tool Effect of I-MESH on urban heat island phenomenon Assessing the urban thermal climate index in the urban canyon Federica Ottone, University of Camerino, Italy