Innovations and Complexities in Building Envelope Design
A special issue of Buildings (ISSN 2075-5309). This special issue belongs to the section "Building Energy, Physics, Environment, and Systems".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 October 2025 | Viewed by 42
Special Issue Editors
Interests: advanced building envelopes; bio-based design; topology optimization; mass customization; mechanical construction; component design; digital fabrication; design for manufacturing and assembly; modern methods of construction; technology transfer
Interests: advanced building envelopes; executive and detail design; integrated façades; construction planning; building systems modelling; component design; smart manufacturing; design for manufacturing and assembly; modern method of construction; technology transfer
* Associate Professor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue, which is part of the section on “Building Envelopes and Structures” of the journal Buildings, examines the theoretical and methodological approaches to the executive design of advanced integrated building envelope systems, according to the application of, smart manufacturing and design for assembly and manufacturing (DfMA) processes. The cross-cutting and multidisciplinary research presented in this Special Issue will original and innovative experimental methods for the environmental, energy, and technical evaluation of advanced integrated building envelope systems (compared to traditional façade solutions), through the analysis of:
- The economy and time efficiency of incremental integration procedures;
- The efficiency of physical processes of energy and/or air exchange (between indoor and outdoor environments), through the use of (passive) devices defined by renewable energy sources;
- The analytical observation and simulation of the energy performance of buildings.
On this basis, studies should be proposed in the form of a design modelling/simulation tool (to support architectural engineering services and systems manufacturing stakeholders) for component design and technology transfer strategies aimed at the functional, physical, and constructive constitution criteria of prefabricated unit systems, combined with cladding sections, thermo-acoustic multi-layers, and devices for detecting/calibrating climatic stresses (external and internal). As result, the modelling/simulation tool is observed as a cognitive/operative field to develop further studies and the application of AI design and engineering for the planning of forms, materials properties, sustainability, and performance optimization.
Prof. Dr. Ingrid Paoletti
Dr. Massimiliano Nastri
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- energy-efficient buildings
- renewable energy sources in buildings
- building energy performance and simulation
- indoor and outdoor built environments
- integrated built environmental system designs
- typology optimization
- smart manufacturing
- design for assembly and manufacturing (DfMA)
- component design
- technology transfer
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