Energy saving design of membrane building envelopes
Visualitza/Obre
Estadístiques de LA Referencia / Recolecta
Inclou dades d'ús des de 2022
Cita com:
hdl:2117/185974
Tipus de documentText en actes de congrés
Data publicació2011
EditorCIMNE
Condicions d'accésAccés obert
Tots els drets reservats. Aquesta obra està protegida pels drets de propietat intel·lectual i
industrial corresponents. Sense perjudici de les exempcions legals existents, queda prohibida la seva
reproducció, distribució, comunicació pública o transformació sense l'autorització del titular dels drets
Abstract
Besides glass, a variety of other translucent and transparent materials are just as highly attractive to architects: plastics, perforated metal plate and meshing, but maybe most of all membrane materials which can also withstand structural loads. Earlier applications of textile materials have served the purpose to keep off the sun, wind, rain and snow while offering the advantage of enormous span widths and a great variety of shapes. The development of high performance membrane and foil materials on the basis of fluoropolymers, e.g. translucent
membrane material such as PTFE-(poly tetraflouroethylene) coated glass fibres or transparent foils made of a copolymer of ethylene and tetrafluoroethylene (ETFE) were milestones in the search for appropriate materials for the building envelope.
The variety of projects that offer vastly different type and scale shows the enormous potential of these high-tech, high performance building materials which in its primordial form are among the oldest of mankind. Their predecessors, animal skins, were used to construct the very first type of building envelopes, namely tents. Since those days, building has become a global challenge. Usually building structures are highly inflexible but long-lasting and they account for the largest share of global primary energy consumption. It is obvious that the with this situation.
Principally, building envelopes as facades or roofs are the separating and filtering layers between outside and inside, between nature and adapted spaces occupied by people. In historic terms, the primary reason for creating this effective barrier between interior and exterior was the desire for protection against a hostile outside world and adverse weather conditions. Various other requirements and aspects have been added to these protective functions: light transmission, an adequate air exchange rate, a visual relationship with the surroundings, aesthetic and meaningful appearance etc.
ISBN978-84-89925-58-8
Fitxers | Descripció | Mida | Format | Visualitza |
---|---|---|---|---|
MEMBRANES_2011-12_Energy saving design.pdf | 1,600Mb | Visualitza/Obre |