The Adaptive Solar Facade: From concept to prototypes

Nagy, Zoltán; Svetozarevic, Bratislav; Jayathissa, Prageeth; Begle, Moritz; Hofer, Johannes; Lydon, G.P.; Willmann, Anja; Schlueter, Arno

doi:10.1016/j.foar.2016.03.002

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“…These definitions suggest that customization is directly associated with the identification of a function, need or objective. As it relates to BIPV, several customization objectives have been investigated, such as aesthetics [51,52], architectural integration [53,54], thermal management [55][56][57], and shading [15,41,53]. These objectives consequently determine the added function of the designed custom BIPV façade along with energy production from the solar cells.…”

Section: Bipv Customisation: Working Definitionmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Review on Building Integrated Photovoltaic Façade Customization Potentials

Attoye

Aoul

Hassan³

2017

Sustainability

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Technological advancement in Building Integrated Photovoltaics (BIPV) has converted the building façade into a renewable energy-based generator. The BIPV façade is designed to provide energy generation along with conventional design objectives such as aesthetics and environmental control. The challenge however, is that architectural design objectives sometimes conflict with energy performance, such as the provision of view and daylight versus maximum power output. In innovative cases, the characteristics of conventional BIPV façades have been modified by researchers to address such conflicts through customization as an emerging trend in BIPV façade design. Although extensive reviews exist on BIPV product types, design integration, adoption barriers and performance issues, research on BIPV customization has not been reviewed as a solution to BIPV adoption. This paper seeks to review the potential of BIPV façade customization as a means of enhancing BIPV adoption. The current paper identifies customization parameters ranging from the customization category, level, and strategies, and related architectural potential along with an assessment of their impact. The findings reflect that elemental and compositional level customization using combined customization strategies provide enhanced BIPV products. These products are well integrated for both energy generation and aesthetic applications with a power output increase of up to 80% in some cases. The paper concludes that a wide range of BIPV adoption barriers such as aesthetics, architectural integration, and performance can be overcome by appropriate BIPV customization.

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Section: Bipv Customisation: Working Definitionmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Review on Building Integrated Photovoltaic Façade Customization Potentials

Attoye

Aoul

Hassan³

2017

Sustainability

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“…The envelope can mitigate solar insolation, thereby offering reductions in heating/cooling loads, and improve the distribution of daylight (Nagy, et al, 2016). Nowadays the increasing interest for adaptive buildings that reconfigure themselves to meet environmental mutations and users' need has driven the concept of new building skins that are multifunctional, responsive and dynamic (Pesenti, Masera, Fiorito, & Sauchelli, 2015).…”

Section: Adaptive Building Envelopes / Photovoltaic Façadesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Because a kinetic photovoltaic façade was performing two tasks at the same time, generating electricity and protecting the building from the direct sun light. To predict the performance of the kinetic PV façade system, there were two BPS environments needed e.g., a BPS to investigate the influence on the energy demand (heating, cooling, and electricity) of the prototype, and the second, a BPS to analyse the solar electricity production throughout the year (Nagy, et al, 2016). Simplified BPS are fast but only provide simplified feedback while more advanced BPS are too difficult and often too slow to be used by building designers who are not experienced building energy modellers.…”

Section: Obstacles To the Automation Of Building Performance Simulationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This can provide savings in materials and labour, and also reduce the electricity costs. BIPV systems are typically rooftop installations owing to the relatively heavy weight structure of traditional silicon-based PV modules (Frontini, et al, 2015;Nagy, et al, 2016). On the other hand, thin-film PV modules, such as copper indium gallium selenide (CIGS), cadmium telluride, and amorphous silicon, offer the advantage of flexible, curved, shapes and lightweight structure when compared to the traditional modules, which come at the price of lower energy conversion efficiencies (Reinhard, et al, 2013).…”

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Obstacles to the Automation of Building Performance Simulation: Adaptive Building Integrated Photovoltaic (BIPV) design

Somboonwit

Boontore

Rugwongwan

2017

E-BPJ

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Building Integrated Photovoltaic (BIPV) is one of the most promising renewable energy technologies. A BIPV system as a second layer of building envelopes is useful not only for the electric power generation but also for blocking solar radiation to reduce cooling load. This study aimed to explore the limitations of the automated BPS of an adaptive BIPV case study that its development conducted through a collaboration of a BIM software, a BIM-integrated visual programming environment, and a cloud-based energy analysis. The possible obstacles to BIPV design processes and the potential solutions have been discussed.

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“…shape, size, materials, locations as well as building's environment, has been accurately described (Ning, et al, 2017). Regarding reviews of BIM-based simulation and optimization for BIPV, there are several types of study related to this research scope including researches focus on BIPV simulation (Long, Wang, Zhou, & Zhang, 2014;Chen & Ger, 2014;Dixit & Yan, 2015), BIPV optimization (Welle, Haymaker, & Rogers, 2011;Ning, et al, 2017) and BIPV integrated parametric design (Kensek, 2014;Kim, Asl, & Yan, 2015, Hofer, Groenewolt, Jayathissa, Nagy, & Schlueter, 2016Nagy, et al, 2016;Somboonwit, Boontore, & Rugwongwan, 2017). Unfortunately, only a small fraction of BPS tools can be used in automated processes required to perform BIPV performance simulation and optimization, and it is unable to be successfully achieved because commercially available tools offer simulation of particular performances to some extent, and yet there is still no 3D CAD/BIM commercial tool that targets all types of BIPV (not only roof mounted), nor complex BIPV or provides seamless model exchange and full geometrical representation for integration in architectural design (Attia, De Herde, Gratia, & Hensen, 2013;Negendahl, 2015;Jakica, 2017;Somboonwit, Boontore, & Rugwongwan, 2017).…”

Section: Automated Bps and Building Information Modeling (Bim)mentioning

confidence: 99%

Identification of Building-Surrounded Obstacle Parameter Using Automated Simulation to Support Building Integrated Photovoltaic (BIPV) Layout Planning in Thailand

Somboonwit¹,

Boontore²

2017

ASS

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The overall aim of this study was to explore the comparative effects between obstacle's distance and obstacle's orientation parameters that cause partially shading effects and influence the potential solar power generation of a photovoltaic (PV) system. An automatic collaboration of a BIM authoring software and a cloud-based building performance analysis tool were used to simulate the annual cumulative insolation obtained from rooftop PV surfaces of eight different orientations and forty-three different distances between the BIPV and building obstacle. Two public healthcare buildings, an OPD and a ward building that widely established throughout Thailand were our case study. This study also explores that orientation and distance of a surrounding obstacle are both important parameters that influencing the annual cumulative insolation of PV surfaces but in the different contexts. The findings of this study also support decision making for BIPV designers and planners to acknowledge which the BIPV and the obstacle placement is highly effective, and which one is encountering a problem and its solution.

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The Adaptive Solar Facade: From concept to prototypes

Cited by 115 publications

References 11 publications

A Review on Building Integrated Photovoltaic Façade Customization Potentials

A Review on Building Integrated Photovoltaic Façade Customization Potentials

Obstacles to the Automation of Building Performance Simulation: Adaptive Building Integrated Photovoltaic (BIPV) design

Identification of Building-Surrounded Obstacle Parameter Using Automated Simulation to Support Building Integrated Photovoltaic (BIPV) Layout Planning in Thailand

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