MH4006 Building Skins and Smart Materials Syllabus:
MH4006 Building Skins and Smart Materials Syllabus – Anna University PG Syllabus Regulation 2021
OBJECTIVES
To introduce smart materials for use in architectural design.
To give familiarity about products that have changeable properties in response to elements.
To inform about materials and technologies such as LEDs, smart glazing, displays, etc.
To give introduction to building skins in terms of their performance and functionality, bio inspired facades and interactive surfaces.
To give familiarity about the methods of fabrication, production and construction for innovation in design.
UNIT I INTRODUCTION
Introduction. Innovative Materials. Smart materials in Nature. Current Trends and Developments.
UNIT II NEW AGE MATERIALS I
Property Changing Smart Materials. Photochromics, Thermochromics. Electrochromics. Photoadhesives. Electroactive Polymers. Shape Memory Alloys. Energy-exchanging smart materials. Phase change Materials (PCM).
UNIT III NEW AGE MATERIALS II
Plastic as a structural material, load bearing plastic spandrel panels, fiberglass plastic application in construction. Matter-exchanging smart materials. Gas/Water storing Smart Materials. Absorbent/Super absorbent Polymers. Bioplastics.
UNIT IV SUSTAINABLE BUILDING SKIN
Parameters for designing a sustainable building skin – sun control, natural ventilation, daylighting, connection to outdoors, thermal insulation, moisture control, micro-climate zones, structural efficiency, material choices, potential for energy generation, bio inspired facades, responsive façade, interactive façade.
UNIT V CASE STUDIES
Case studies on the innovative applications of smart materials and various building skins in design.
TOTAL: 45 PERIODS
COURSE OUTCOME
CO1 Knowledge about fundamentals of material and current innovations.
CO2 Ability to explore the potential of smart materials in creative designing
CO3 Knowledge about smart material characteristics and methods of material technology that can be translated to innovative approaches to design
CO4 Ability to examine building skin as both giver of character and as part of the performative technology of buildings.
REFERENCES
1. Michelle Addington and Daniel L.Schodek, ‘Smart Materials and Technologies in Architecture’, Architectural Press, Elsevier, 2004.
2. Axel Ritter,’Smart Materials: In Architecture, Interior Architecture and Design’,Birkhauser, 2007.
3. Marinella Ferrara and Murat Bengisu, ‘Materials that Change Color: Smart Materials, Intelligent Design’, Springer, 2013.
4. Elena Gorb, Yves.J.M.Brechet et al, ‘Materials Design Inspired by Nature: Function Through Inner Architecture (RSC Smart Materials)’, RSC Publishing, 2013.
5. P. Gruber and S. Gosztonyi, ‘Skin in architecture: towards bioinspired facades’, https://www.witpress.com/Secure/elibrary/papers/DN10/DN10045FU1.pdf
6. Yeang, K., ‘The Green Skykscraper, The Basis for Designing Sustainable Intensive Buildings’, Prestel Verlag, Munich, London, New York, 1999.
7. Maggie McIntosh, ‘Sustainable Building Skin Design’
https://soa.utexas.edu/sites/default/disk/technologies/technologies/09_03_fa_speck_mcintos
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