Sustainable Interactive Facades through Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Materials

The contemporary buildings play pivotal role in overall energy consumption worldwide. Facades as the separator of external and internal environments of the building have significant impact of the sustainability of the buildings. Designing adaptive, intelligent and multifunctional facades in interactive architecture context is a promising approach to the future of smart buildings. This study aims to identify the pathways to construct interactive facades in order to improve the sustainability of buildings. To achieve this aim, the study reviews the most related literature to the topic in order to identify the main criteria of interactive facades and conceptualize how they should work accordingly. During research process, it is found that developments in artificial intelligence (AI) and advanced materials (AM) facilitates the implementation of interactive systems for facades. Through analyzing purposefully selected case studies based on extracted criteria of interactive facades, this study highlights the strengths and gaps of implementation of interactive facades. Then, this study relates the detected gaps to developments in AI and AM in order to propose pathways for improving interactive architecture in designing facades. These proposals and pathways are presented in terms of architectural implications and recommendations for future studies in final chapter of this study. Keywords: Interactive facades, Artificial intelligence (AI), Advanced materials (AM), Intelligent buildings.