Intelligent Skins

Intelligent Skins is a forward thinking reference design for engineers, architects, designers and surveyors. This innovative guide will provide the principles for the design of intelligent building envelopes. Text highlights an exciting new approach to the area, where the fabric of the building will respond to external changes and internal demands. The prime objective of the material within this book is to enable all readers to control internal environments through responsibility fabric rather than by energy consuming building service systems. The authors seek to examine the potential for integral intelligence through the fabric of the building, while also exploring the evolution of information technology and smart materials, which have enabled a whole new category of design principles throughout the creation process.

• Introduction
• The Environmental Context and the Design Imperative
• Buildings and Intelligence: metaphors and models
• The Intelligent Skin: the deepening metaphor
• Method
• Features
• The future
• The Case Studies
• GSW Headquarters
• Debis Building
• Commerzbank Headquarters
• Stadttor (City Gate)
• GlaxoWellcome House West
• The Environmental Building
• Helicon
• Tax Office Extension
• Headquarters of Gotz
• Phoenix Central Library
• The Bruntland Centre
• The Green Building
• Heliotrop
• Villa Vision
• Business Promotion Centre
• School of Engineering and Manufacture
• SUVA Insurance Company
• Solar House Freiburg
• Design Office for Gartner
• TRON-Concept Intelligent House
• Super Energy Conservation Building
• Occidental Chemical Centre
• Bibliography
• Definitions
• Index