On the Typology, Costs, Energy Performance, Environmental Quality and Operational Characteristics of Double Skin Façades in European Buildings

Streicher, Wolfgang; Heimrath, Richard; Hengsberger, Herwig; Mach, Thomas; Waldner, Reinhard; Flamant, Gilles; Loncour, Xavier; Guarracino, Gérard; Erhorn, Hans; Erhorn-Kluttig, Heike; Farou, Ifigenia; Zerefos, Stelios; Assimakopoulos, Margarita-Niki; Duarte, Rogério; Blomsterberg, Åke; Sjöberg, Lars E.; Blomquist, Christer

doi:10.1080/17512549.2007.9687267

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“…This relationship is studied further in the next paper by Or Aleksandrowicz and Abraham Yezioro called 'Mechanically ventilated double-skin facade in a hot and humid climate: summer monitoring in an office tower in Tel Aviv,' This is a validation study examining both the lighting and thermal performance of Double Skin Facades in a warm climate conditions. These systems are often used in climates with mostly cool external environmental conditions (Streicher et al 2011). A major question is how these systems controlling heat flux in large commercial buildings in warm conditions found in latitudes, which have high levels of insulation and higher external air temperatures.…”

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Improving the building typology

Hyde

2018

Architectural Science Review

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2018

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“…Its applications are found in architectural and engineering design with frequently overlapping benefits [2]. The DSF has taken the lead in architecture as an aesthetically environmentally friendly façade because it can satisfy glazing exterior desires, which in addition related to business trends while also positively responding to environmental issues [3,4]. For engineering, DSF is advantageous in terms of technical constructions and the physical environment.…”

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“…The application of DSF has become one of the key approaches to enhancing the performance of building envelopes contemplated by various findings [6,7]. The DSF has been widely known in temperate climates due to its significant impact on energy consumption and other indoor environmental benefits [4,8]. Similarly, its application has recently caught more attention in various climates due to its substantial influences and impacts on energy consumption and thermal performance in buildings, as demonstrated in different studies [1,9,10].…”

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Thermal and Energy Influences of Double Skin Façade Towards Green Buildings in Tropical Classified Countries

Yonghuort Lim,

Mohd Rodzi Ismail

2023

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Double skin façade (DSF) has emerged as a decisive strategy for improving building thermal performance and energy efficiency. In various climatic conditions, DSF will perform differently and accordingly. However, the whole building performance of the DSF has never been studied in a broad climatic condition. As a result, there will be a high risk that the system will underperform conventional façade. This study adopted a quantitative approach with computational simulation software, EnergyPlus, to analyze the thermal behavior and energy efficiency of both single skin façade (SSF) and DSF systems. The investigation focused on an overall Köppen classified tropical climate category, which encompasses tropical rainforest (Af), tropical monsoon (Am), tropical savanna with dry winter (Aw), and tropical savanna with dry summer (As) climates. The primary finding indicates that the SSF in various tropical-classified groups exhibits diverse thermal behaviors throughout the year, from month to month and from orientation to orientation. The climate of each tropical classification distinctly influences the performance of both façades. The air temperature and relative humidity in both SSF and DSF office zones remained within a predictable range throughout the year. Thermal behavior and energy consumption fluctuated considerably on a monthly basis but only marginally on an annual basis. This similarity explains how buildings in the four cities consumed distinctly comparable cooling energy consumptions. The study also indicates that, even without a shading device, the DSF could still outperform the conventional facades. In all climatic contexts, energy consumption for cooling could be diminished by more than 40%, and the air temperature in the office zones was decreased to around 4°C while relative humidity was increased by 1% to 5%. Hence, an appropriate DSF design could be employed on office buildings in the overall classified tropical climates to attain energy efficiency through thermal enhancement from the façade’s second layers.

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“…The CFD method can offer much more detailed results especially for airflow through shading devices, recirculation zones or when the wind profile is irregular [13], [14], [15]. A brief document was issued in 2007 by the Commission of the European Council [16] with guiding principles for the construction of DSTF.…”

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Functional aerodynamics and its influence on the energy and thermal mode of a naturally ventilated double-skin transparent façade

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This article deals with the dynamics of airflow through a cavity. In windless conditions, where a natural flow causes the flow of air in the cavity, the overall aerodynamic resistance of the cavity is the important aerodynamic parameter, which is the sum of the local resistances alongside the air movement trajectory through the cavity. The total aerodynamic resistance of the cavity must be lesses than the force of the convective buoyancy of the air in the cavity. The following conclusions were found experimentally. The convection occurs in the cavity at every time step with a velocity range from 0.05 ≤ v [m/s] ≤ 0.2 to 0.3. The energy regime in the cavity is characterised by inhomogeneity. In the cavity, there are zones of increasing temperatures along the height of the cavity at the inlet. A large area with increased temperatures at the air outlet and a small area with particularly high temperatures in the upper part of the inlet were found.

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On the Typology, Costs, Energy Performance, Environmental Quality and Operational Characteristics of Double Skin Façades in European Buildings

Cited by 16 publications

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Improving the building typology

Improving the building typology

Thermal and Energy Influences of Double Skin Façade Towards Green Buildings in Tropical Classified Countries

Functional aerodynamics and its influence on the energy and thermal mode of a naturally ventilated double-skin transparent façade

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