Double Skin Façades (DSFs) have become widespread solutions commonly employed in new and existing buildings the last decades. Since its introduction, multi-layered façade has improved profoundly, assuming more articulate complex shapes for better energy performances combining advanced technologies as innovative materials or systems. However, effectiveness thermal behaviour of DSFs should be car...

Designing novel interaction concepts for urban environments is not only a technical challenge in terms of scale, safety, portability and deployment, but also a challenge of designing for social configurations and spatial settings. To outline what it takes to create a consistent and interactive experience in urban space, we describe the concept and multidisciplinary design process of VR/Urban’s ...

In this paper, a new building concept for multi-family lightweight timber frame housing is proposed. This concept combines party walls, floors and façade elements ensuring comfort levels equal or better than currently encountered in typical Belgian heavy constructions. Low frequency behaviour and prefabrication potential were the key points in the design process of the new wall and floor types....

Façade is an artificial intelligence-based art/research experiment in electronic narrative – an attempt to move beyond traditional branching or hyper-linked narrative to create a fully-realized, one-act interactive drama. Integrating an interdisciplinary set of artistic practices and artificial intelligence technologies, we are completing a three year collaboration to engineer a novel architect...

High-rise buildings with a large proportion of transparent areas, where conventional external overheating protection cannot be used due to the wind loads, are often problematic from an energetic and comfort point of view. In this paper a glass façade system is examined, which controls the energy flows within the transparent building envelope. Two fluid-filled layers are implemented in a glass f...

High-end storage systems, such as those in large data centers, must service multiple independent workloads. Workloads often require predictable quality of service, despite the fact that they have to compete with other rapidly-changing workloads for access to common storage resources. We present a novel approach to providing performance guarantees in this highly-volatile scenario, in an efficien...

Media façades are a prominent example of the digital augmentation of urban spaces. They denote the concept of turning the surface of a building into a large-scale urban screen. Due to their enormous size, they require interaction at a distance and they have a high level of visibility. Additionally, they are situated in a highly dynamic urban environment with rapidly changing conditions, which r...