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Book SynopsisTable of Contents1. Façade Innovation: Past, Present, Future 2. Façade Innovation: An Industry Perspective Part A: Product Innovation 3. New and Innovative Cool Coatings for Urban Overheating Mitigation through Façades 4. The Pursuit of Transparency 5. Advanced Fenestration: Technologies, Performance, and Building Integration 6. Embedding Intelligence to Control Adaptive Building Envelope 7. Biomimetic Adaptive Building Skins: Design and Performance 8. Building Integrated Photovoltaic Façades: Challenges, Opportunities, and Innovations 9. Unitised Timber Envelopes: The Future Generation of Industrialised, High-Performance, Sustainable Façades for Construction Decarbonisation 10. Industrialised Building Envelopes for Renovation: Realizing the Potential to Decarbonise the European Building Stock 11. Vertical Farming on Façades: Transforming Building Skins for Urban Food Security 12. Interactive Media Façades: Research Prototypes, Application Areas, and Future Directions Part B: Process Innovation 13. The Building Envelope: Failing to Understand Complexity in Tall Building Design 14. Resilience by Design: Building Façades for Tomorrow 15. Inverse Design for Advanced Building Envelope Materials, Systems, and Operation 16. Towards Automated Design: Knowledge Based Engineering in Façades 17. Additive Manufacturing in Skin Systems: Trends and Future Perspectives 18. Mass-Customization as the Convergent Vision for the Digital Transformation of the Manufacturing and the Building Industry 19. Automation and Robotic Technologies in the Construction Context: Research Experience in Prefabricated Façade Modules 20. Life Cycle Assessment in Façade Design 21. Circular Economy in Façades 22. Façades-as-a-Service: A Business and Supply-Chain Model for the Implementation of a Circular Façade Economy
