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1.What are the four techniques the author describes?
1. projecting solar depth - cantilevered louvers;
2. capturing the flow of air - double skin facades;
3. occupying the envelope - hybrid conditioned atria; and
4. responding to the surface - environmental data logging (Trubiano).
2. How do these examples "increase the depth of the envelope" according to the author?
Trubiano explains that the increase of the "depth" of the envelope becomes possible through the following means: the amplification of material layers for drifting and displacing light, air and heat at the exterior facade of the building; projecting the exterior planes; introducing program-based architectural aggregates that replace a building’s programmed systems; initiating the responsive electronics (Trubiano, p.692).
3. What are the programmatic and energy-saving opportunities when skin is "spatialized"?
Each of the techniques described by Trubiano, suggests programmatic and energy-saving opportunities. With the help of projecting solar depth, building skins have become measurable, occupiable and operable due to layering, thickening, and multiplying their anticipated and actual depth (Trubiano, p. 695). She claims that adding active and/or passive elements outboard of the skin adds or takes away from the amount of light and solar energy within the building (Trubiano, p.695). Double skin facades diminish load, and they also ventilate and enlarge daylight transmission, recover, convert and withdraw heat, and generate power (Trubiano, p. 696). The hybrid conditioned atria technique helps by applying the efficient "water-based heating and cooling radiant systems" (Trubiano, p. 702). Environmental data logging is important because the energy that takes part in the transportation of light, air and air vapor is given measure and substance with the medium of data (Trubiano, p. 704).
Works cited
Trubiano, Franca. "Performance Based Envelopes: A Theory of Spatialized Skins and the Emergence of the Integrated Design Professional." Buildings 3, (2013): 689-712. Print.
