“Parametric design for technological and "smart" system. Adaptive and optimized skin”

The goal of the research program is to study technological and "smart" complex systems through the development of emerging technologies and a multi-disciplinary approach. The awareness that innovation in architecture field , but in general in science, it’s essential to provide concrete answers to issues of general interest, such as energy resources consumption and construction systems obsolescence used so far, makes research fundamental and priority. It’s necessary that the architecture is adjustable to the environment as the living organisms are, through a new multi-disciplinary approach: not only studying the morphology but investigating the generative process starting from the physical characteristics of materials and components, from the analysis of bio-inspired systems, for an architecture that is increasingly taking the form of a living organism [1]. Achieving this requires efficient technology and mutual collaboration systems that can only be reached through research in the field of emerging technologies. Specifically in this full paper, this approach will provide basis for the prototyping of "light" dynamic and adaptive facade system able to synthesize the different contributions that these new technologies are able to ensure. In the second step of the research the aim will therefore be, in addition to the development of high performance skin system, to define a new methodology, a new design process, involving major innovations in the design and prototyping fields of technology systems to be transferred, in the clearest possible way, to the industrial sector, so as to ensure the product innovation necessary to compete at European level. The knowledge of the "state of the art" and critical, directs research towards a prototype system of flexible facade based on pre molded components and achievements obtained by the nonstandard and avant-garde processes, even experimental, which contains sub-systems able to collect input from outside and rework them to provide an adaptive and optimized response.