The Importance of Testing Activities for a “New” Generation of Building Envelope

Abstract The construction sector is considered, directly or indirectly, one of the pillars for application technological solutions to rise quality levels building envelopes. need realize new processes capable “dynamically” reading responses built systems becomes an essential action understand how dynamics climate change determine and trigger evident effects on environment. In this scenario, contribution describes experimental research activities a curved facade—carried out at TCLab Section Building Future Lab Mediterranean University Reggio Calabria—to verify its performance extreme events according specific standardized protocols. Therefore, study focuses envelope, as main subsystem through which leakage occurs, not only in terms thermal dynamic fluxes, but air water permeability. Testing activities, nowadays fundamental value phenomena, allow predict behavior environment same time evaluate alternative solution. efforts go toward defining design methodology generation envelopes, reacting different contextual conditions by raising environmental adaptive dynamics. From tests carried out, results take form test protocols, giving real added implementing applied experimentation actions with highly reliable results.