Rethinking Building Skins: Transformative Technologies and Research Trajectories

Editors: Eugenia Gasparri, Arianna Brambilla, Gabriele Lobaccaro, Francesco Goia, Annalisa Andaloro, Alberto Sangiorgio

Rethinking Building Skins: Transformative Technologies and Research Trajectories provides a comprehensive collection of the most relevant and forward-looking research in the field of facade design and construction today, with a focus on both product and process innovation. The book brings together the expertise, creativity, and critical thinking of more than fifty global innovators from both academia and industry, to guide the reader in translating research into practice. It identifies new opportunities for the construction sector to respond to present challenges, towards a more sustainable, efficient, connected, and safe future.

This book will be of particular use to researchers in the field of facade design and construction, as well as professionals working in the industry.

Professor Mikkel K. Kragh and Dr. Nebosja Jakica have jointly authored the chapter on “Circular Economy in Facades”.

The book is available from Elsevier here.