Adaptive Buildings Blend Efficiency With Aesthetics

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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

In 2008, engineering firm Buro Happold and design firm Hoberman Associates launched the Adaptive Building Initiative (ABI), a joint venture to design and deliver the next generation of sustainable building technologies. The firm develops building facades and envelopes that adapt to environmental change to reduce the carbon footprint of a building. To date, ABI comprises four proprietary ‘Intelligent Surfaces’. ABI has created a niche market for aesthetic adaptive surfaces that offer environmental benefits and ABI has completed several high profile projects across the world through a network of partners. But to make a significant contribution to reducing carbon emission from new and existing building stocks, ABI needs to scale up its deployment by making its solutions more accessible.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

SELF-OPTIMIZING FACADES DELIVER SAVINGS TO NICHE MARKET
Motorized Surfaces Provide Real-Time Response To Environmental Changes
ABI Spans The Construction Value Chain
ABI Needs To Move Beyond Custom Designs To Become Accessible 

TABLE OF FIGURES

Figure 1. The Adaptive Building Initiative Has Four Proprietary Solutions

COMPANIES MENTIONED

Adaptive Building Initiative, Buro Happold, Foster + Partner, Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Hoberman Associates, Perkins Eastman, Permasteelisa, Simons Centre for Geometry And Physics, Skidmore, Owings & Merril, Warema, Zahner