Dynamic façades – An exploratory campaign to assess occupant multi-domain environmental satisfaction and façade interaction

Influence of Automated Façades on Occupants

“…These different types of occupant response were studied by previous authors thorugh questionnaires, surveys, and interviews. In addition, occupant behaviour was monitored by tracking occupant override actions (Bakker et al, 2014;Cheng et al, 2016;Goovaerts et al, 2017;Gunay et al, 2017;Lee et al, 2012;Luna-Navarro et al, 2022;Motamed et al, 2019;Sadeghi et al, 2016), or occupant actions to deactivate the control logic (Meerbeek et al, 2014), and set-points (Clear et al, 2006;Guillemin & Morel, 2001, 2002Vine et al, 1998).…”

“…For instance, comfort was intended as the threshold or set-point that defines comfortable environmental conditions, which was often contrasted by surveys of the occupant perception to the environmental quality (Bakker et al, 2014;Cheng et al, 2013Cheng et al, , 2016Clear et al, 2006;Guillemin & Morel, 2001, 2002Kim et al, 2009;Lee et al, 2012;Meerbeek et al, 2014;Motamed et al, 2017;Sadeghi et al, 2016;Taniguchi et al, 2012;Vine et al, 1998). Satisfaction was used to indicate occupant contentment with the visual environment (Cheng et al, 2013(Cheng et al, , 2016Choi et al, 2019;Clear et al, 2006;Day et al, 2019;Guillemin & Morel, 2002;Karlsen et al, 2015;Kim et al, 2009;Lolli et al, 2019Lolli et al, , 2020Luna-Navarro et al, 2022;Meerbeek et al, 2014;Sadeghi et al, 2016;Vine et al, 1998), thermal environment (Choi et al, 2019;Clear et al, 2006;Day et al, 2019;Lolli et al, 2020;Luna-Navarro et al, 2022;Meerbeek et al, 2014;Sadeghi et al, 2016;Wu et al, 2020), acoustic environment (Clear et al, 2006;Lolli et al, 2019;Luna-Navarro et al, 2022), air quality (Luna-Navarro et al, 2022), or overall satisfaction with the automat...…”

“…The most reported personal characteristics were age and gender, while the level of rest was rarely considered. Five studies included occupants' attitudes (Clear et al, 2006;Karlsen et al, 2015;Luna-Navarro et al, 2022;Motamed et al, 2017;Sadeghi et al, 2016), with Luna-Navarro et al ( 2022) being the study that took into account the most attitude descriptors. A few studies considered the personal significance of environmental characteristics, such as visual environment, thermal environment, air quality privacy, personal control and room quality (Clear et al, 2006;Karlsen et al, 2015;Sadeghi et al, 2016).…”

“…In buildings, façades act as a buffer and connector between indoors and outdoors (Knaack et al, 2014) and affect building energy consumption and occupant multi-domain environmental comfort (Luna-Navarro et al, 2022). In particular, façades can affect occupant satisfaction with the thermal environment (Carmody et al, 2004), acoustic (Tang, 2017), air quality (Izadyar et al, 2020), daylight, and view out (Boyce et al, 2003;Heschong et al, 2013).…”

Pilot Experiments for Multi-Criteria Human Comfort-Driven Structural Glass Design Assessment

“…Most importantly, glass applications are often known as "architectures of vertigo" (Deriu 2018), where transparent structures are conceived as spaces of visceral thrills and intense psychophysiological stimuli with deep sensory experience and socio-spatial implications. The high aesthetic impact of glass structures can be thus sometimes in contrast with the need of more efficient feeling of protection for the occupants, as it could be for extreme accidents, pedestrian systems, or uncomfortable configurations (Figure 2 For facades and building envelopes made of glass, research studies are already trying to address and optimize human comfort especially on thermal issues (see for example (Luna-Navarro et al 2020;Luna-Navarro et al 2022). For the specific application of glass pedestrian systems, design solutions can be highly demanding in engineering terms, due to complex human-structure interaction phenomena.…”