Façades as a Product-Service System: The potential of new business-to-client relations in the facade industry

This thesis studies the potential of a Product-Service System applied to facades. It analyses the stakeholders involved in the decision-making process for new building constructions, and then evaluates the economic, functional, energetic and strategic advantages of a "leasable facade" for each of these parties. This work also explores a variety...

The Transparent Facade of the Future - Design strategies for maximizing transparency with self-supporting glass facade systems

The research is focusing on the development of strategies to accommodate the structural design of a transparent all – glass façade. This façade will be designed for one of the commissioned projects of OMA. Through the research it will be attempted to organize and systemize all the different aspects that one must consider when designing with...

Standard Principles: Double Curved Facades

This research pursues to find a form of standardization in the field of double curved facades. At the moment the engineering and construction of a double curved façade is time consuming and highly expensive. A form of standardization would reduce both and make the façade type more applicable in the ‘regular’ building domain. The methodology of...