A visual - performative language of facade patterns for the Connected Sustainable Home

摘要

The association between a building facade involving a matrix of programmable windows, for a prototype house, and the adjustment of the natural light at the house interior is treated algorithmically. The facade operates as a dynamic filter between exterior and interior: it filters solar radiation and heat by allowing the modification of the chromatism and light transmittance of each individual window. Varying the number and the distribution of the active windows on the facade permits the regulation of the incoming sun light and affects the visual presence of the house. A generative grammar producing the language of the optimum facade patterns, is presented. The novelty is that the grammar instead of encoding stylistic conventions, captures performative constraints and encodes them visually, to produce efficient and elegant patterns on the facade.