Print Email Facebook Twitter Textile Membrane for Façade Retrofitting Title Textile Membrane for Façade Retrofitting: Exploring Fabric Potentialities for the Development of Innovative Strategies Author Procaccini, Giulia (Polytechnic of Milan) Prieto, Alejandro (Diego Portales University) Knaack, U. (TU Delft Architectural Technology) Monticelli, Carol (Polytechnic of Milan) Konstantinou, T. (TU Delft Architectural Technology) Date 2024 Abstract The European building stock demands urgent renovation due to the age of the buildings, their expected lifetime, and their excessive energy consumption, which accounts for more than a third of the EU’s total emissions. However, the complexities involved, such as time, costs, and structural modifications, often discourage clients, tenants, and occupants from undergoing a building renovation process. Textile membranes, despite their long history in various architectural applications, have only been employed in façades in the last decades. Their intrinsic properties, such as lightness and flexibility, together with rapid assembly and low maintenance make these materials particularly suitable for façade retrofitting. Therefore, they are worth exploring as a way to promote the development of lightweight and easy-to-assemble façade products that could help overcome the current limitations of building retrofitting efforts. This paper aims to establish relationships between textile membranes and potential building retrofit applications. To this end, this study builds on the categorization of traditional façade retrofit strategies and proposes a new classification for textile façade retrofit products. The methodology includes a comprehensive literature review of textile properties and characteristics, along with a thorough assessment through case studies, of membrane use in façade applications. A sequential investigation leads to the main outcome of identifying three clear pathways for the development of new textile-based façade products for building retrofit. Subject Façade retrofittextile façademembraneinnovative strategiesresilient constructionsSustainabilitylightweight structures To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:2c309d76-800f-47c3-a702-3aca6f99284c DOI https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings14010086 ISSN 2075-5309 Source Buildings, 14 (1) Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights © 2024 Giulia Procaccini, Alejandro Prieto, U. Knaack, Carol Monticelli, T. Konstantinou Files PDF buildings_14_00086.pdf 4.42 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:2c309d76-800f-47c3-a702-3aca6f99284c/datastream/OBJ/view