Sustainability and Life cycle Assessment of Novel Structural Building Skins
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Urban and Rural Development".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2019) | Viewed by 265
Special Issue Editors
Interests: architecture; built environment sustainability; life cycle design; performative design; re-cycling and up-cycling design strategies; eco-efficiency; circular economy; temporary architecture; lightweight construction; textile technologies; membrane structures; structural skins; eco-design principles for lightweight buildings
Interests: sustainability; durability and recycling of construction materials
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue comprises selected papers from the Working Group “Sustainability and Life cycle Assessment of Novel Structural Membrane Skins” in the EU-COST Action TU1303 “Novel Structural Skins” (2013-2017). The discussion of the Working Group dealt with membrane and foil structural skins, which exploit minimal amounts of material to cover a space, compared to common envelope materials (thanks also to their ability to be tensioned by shaping themselves to the forces’ ways, with a few additional components). Their environmental compatibility, together with the thermal, optical, and acoustic performances, are considered crucial factors in the design phase.
The Working Group focused on searching for the most effective life-cycle-based design methodology, to support designers during their daily work, not as a theoretical analysis that needed time, scientists, and environmental specialists to be developed, and on studies that combined the necessity of increasing the designers’ awareness of both lightweight and flexible materials and their building physic performances from a life-cycle perspective, achieving membrane architectures with a smaller environmental footprint. The discussed research need actually originates from the networking between researchers and firms—both manufacturers tensile/pneumatic structures and membrane/foil producers—as well as engineers and architects, who are all seeking to find an easier way to compare the eco-profile of lightweight material alternatives that are currently available on the global market.
Prof. Alessandra Zanelli
Prof. Dr. Carol Monticelli
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Sustainability
- Comfort
- Novel lightweight skins
- Membranes
- Building physics proprieties
- Life cycle assessment
- Thermal and acoustic performances
- Daylighting
- Eco-design principles
