The Adaptive Solar Facade: From concept to prototypes

Frontiers of Architectural Research

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 143-156

  Nagy, Zoltan ^a   Svetozarevic, Bratislav ^a   Jayathissa, Prageeth ^a   Begle, Moritz ^a   Hofer, Johannes ^a   Lydon, Gearoid ^a   Willmann, Anja ^a   Schlueter, Arno ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

BIPV; Dynamic facade; Facade engineering; Photovoltaics; Responsive architecture

Indexed keywords

EID: 85006210711     PISSN: 20952635     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foar.2016.03.002     Document Type: Article

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