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

The goal of this research is to develop technological and "smart" complex building skin systems, particularly façades, through the development of “emerging technologies”1 and of a reputable multidisciplinary approach. The awareness that innovation in architecture, but also generally in science, is essential to provide concrete answers to issues of general interest, such as energy resources consumption and the obsolescence of construction systems that have been used so far, makes research fundamental and priority. It is necessary that architecture becomes adjustable to the environment ,like living organisms, through a new multi-disciplinary approach: studying not only the morphology but investigating also the generative process starting from the physical characteristics of materials and components as well as analyzing bio-inspired systems, resulting in an architecture that is increasingly adopting the form of a living organism. In order to achieve this, efficient technologies and mutually collaborating systems are required that can only be achieved through research in the field of emerging technologies. Specifically the approach presented in this paper provides the basis for the development and prototyping of a "light" dynamic and adaptive façade system that is able to synthesize the different contributions that these new technologies are able to provide. In the second step of the research thus a new methodology and a new design process had to be defined (involving major innovations in the design and prototyping of technological systems to be transferred to the industrial sector), with the intent to ensure the necessary product innovation to compete at a global level and to establish a standardized and repeatable design process also for other smart façade systems. The knowledge of the "state of the art" and critical, directs research towards a prototype system of flexible façade 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.