Bioreceptive Urban Facades

Bioreceptive Urban Facades: Integration of Bryophytes Into Facades and Their Impact on Exterior Building Temperatures

Valencia, Diego (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)

Prieto Hoces, Alejandro (mentor)
Ottele, Marc (graduation committee)

Delft University of Technology

Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Building Technology

2019-07-24

Rapidly expanding urban developments are having an inverse relationship on the surrounding urban environment. Facades and the materials that they are composed of can have a large impact on the warming of urban microclimates. By reducing or cooling the external surfaces of a facade a building maybe able to offset its contribution to the urban heat island effect. The thesis will help quantify the theoretical impact that this new living facade system can have on external surface temperatures. However, because this is a new facade technique, developing the facade design will also generate the guidelines needed to achieve a bioreceptive urban facade. The resulting facade design will reveal insights and discover the limitations of such an application into urban environments.

Bioreceptive
Bryophytes
Bioreceptivity
Facade design
Urban facades
Surface Temperature
Building Envelope System
Moss
biofilm
CFD Simulation
Green facade
Living wall
MPC
Foamed MPC
Magnesium Phosphate Cement
LWS
Innovation
Green wall
Biocolonizaton
Biointegration

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Student theses

master thesis

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