THERM_VENATION: Active Thermal Façade Venation

THERM_VENATION: Active Thermal Façade Venation: Fabricating a concrete twin-wall façade panel optimised for integrated heat exchange system

Panda, Subhranshu (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)

Turrin, M. (mentor)
Knaack, U. (mentor)

Delft University of Technology

Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Building Technology

2019-07-10

Passive measures to tackle increasing energy demands of modern buildings are aimed to generate energy from the roof or the ground beneath and by improving insulation to isolate indoors and outdoors. The author targets the opaque facade sections of a building to develop an active panel to exchange solar thermal energy with his project THERM_VENATION- Active Thermal Façade Venation. It is a project dealing with designing and fabrication of a twin-wall concrete façade panel with heat exchange tubular network embedded within it inspired by the leaf venation, which by actively exchanging fluid between the two panels conditions the indoor temperature, in the extreme composite climate of Delhi, India. This project follows a design through research methodology with computation tools, boundary conditions, material properties and the method of fabrication guiding the design and its result.

Venation
Heat exchanger
Fluid flow
Optimisation
3D Printing
Wax printing
Facade Design
Concrete
Fabrication
Delhi
India
Integrated Facade
Sustainable Energy

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Student theses

master thesis

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