Double Skin Glass Facade
Objective: This research involved the principles of Double Skin Glass Facades to enhance a persons experience of the built environment. Double Skin Glass Facades can be a value added feature for high performance buildings provided they reduce energy costs substantially enough to warrant their extra expense over standard curtain walls.
Double Skin Glass Facades are an emerging aspect of high-performance building envelope systems. This project documents an architectural investigation of the building science and design of this type of envelope as a measure of sustainable energy efficient and green design practice. Ventilation modes and types of double skin glass facades in use today are identified and analyzed for thermal, wind and air flow, strategies. Natural ventilation is proposed as a means of tempering indoor climate as a measure of reducing the dependence on mechanical equipment.
