Façade as interphase

INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL SHADING LIGHT DEFLECTION

VISIBILITY
TOP AREA
MIDDLE AREA
BOTTOM AREA

VENTILATION ENERGY GAIN

TOP AREA
MIDDLE AREA
BOTTOM AREA

SELECTION OF CONCEPT
PHYSICAL PROCESSES IN FACADES
USE OF NATURAL LIGHT

FENESTRATION AND NATURAL LIGHT

USE OF LIGHT DEFLECTION SYSTEMS

CONTROLLED LIGHT

CLASSIFICATION WALL TYPES

BREATHING MASSIVE WALL:
THE MATERIAL COMPRISSING BREATING MASSIVE INCLUDE
BRICK STANDARD LIGHT WEIGHT CONCRET, AND CONCRET BLOCKS.

THESE ARE POROUS TO WATER AND VAPOUR AND ABSORB APPRICIATION

QUANTITY OF WATER.

EVAPORATION OF THIS WATER TAKES PLACE FROM EXSTERNAL SURFACE WHEN

INDOOR VAPOUR PRESSURE FALLS BELOW THAT OF INTERNAL SURFACE, THE
EVAPORATION MAY TAKE PLACE FROM HERE.

BUT THIS IS CONTRADICTORY TO REQUIREMENT FOR PREVENTION OF RAIN AND

WATER ABSORPBTION. SO DIFFICULT TO ACHIEVE SATISFACTORY CONDITION OF
THESE TYPE WALL IN COLD CLIMATE WITH HIGH HUMIDITY.

MASONARY CAVITY WALL:

IT COMPRISE OF AN EXTERIOR AND INTERIOR LEAF ENCLOSING AN AIR SPACE.

VENTILATION OF AIR SPACE ENABLES WATER VAPOUR FROM INNER LEAF TO BE
REMOVED FROM FURTHER TRANFER TO EXTERNAL LAYER.

THE THERMAL EFFECTIVENESS OF CAVITY WALLS IS GREATER WHEN THE

INTERNAL LEAF IS THE THICKER AND THE OUTER LEAF FUNCTIONS ONLY AS A
PROTECTIVE LAYER. IN THIS WAY THE MAIN MASS OF THE WALL IS KEPT DRY AND
IS PROTECTED FROM WATER, SOLAR RADIATION AND EXTREMES OF HET AND
COLD. THE AIR SPACE CAN THEN BE WELL VENTILATED, TO REMOVE ANY
INCIDENTAL WETNESS.

IMPERVIOUS WALLS

AN IMPERVIOUS WALL CONTAINS A LAYER IMPERVIOUS TO WTER, WHETHER IN

LIQID OR VAPOR FORM. WHEN THIS LAYER IS EXTERNAL IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO
PREVENT CONDENSATION WITHIN THE WALL AND EVAPORATION INTO THE
INDOOR AIR ONL POSSIBLE WHEN THE INDOOR VAPOUR PRESSURE FALLS BELOW
THAT OF THE WALL. IF CRACKES OR SMALL HOLES ARE PRESENT IN THE OUTER
WATER REPELLENT LAYER, RAIN WATER MAY PENETRATE THE LAYER BUT DRYING
TO THE OUTER AIR IS STILL PREVENTED, SO THAT WATER STEADITY
ACCUMULATES IN THE WALL.

CASE STUDY
Methodology
a) Study the typology of building

b) System of envelop

c) Materials used in making of the envelop

d) Technology used to produce the skin

e) Response of the envelope to various environments of thermal and luminous.

f) Study of various physical attributes of the skin