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What is Biofacade?
“Biofacade” is a biological building skin which help balancing Natural Environment and Built Environment. It derived from the idea of increasing green area for the city in an innovative way.
Work include designing innovative green facade and roof as well as carrying out experiment on their environmental performance.
It is a research funded by KURDI
(Kasetsart University Research and Development Institute) under The Special Research Unit of Green Building Innovation since 2007.
Research
Research
Background
Increasing green area is standard solution for every big cities, in order to reduce heat island effect and mitigate CO2 . Unluckily, high density city cannot allow enough open space for more green area. Greening the building by applying green roof or green facade are now becoming popular solution to increase green area by occupying minimum space but can reduce heat transfer and enhance air quality effectively.
Leaves of plants contain special quality which can never be found in any building materials. Besides absorbing carbondioxide in photosynthesis process, it also absorp solar radiation and turn it to latent heat in evapo-transpiration, reduce heat transfer through building, reduce reflection and radiation to atmosphere. The more leaves and layers, the more efficient in heat reduction and CO2 absorption. Plants covering shading for windows can protect solar radiation and cool down building more efficiently than concrete shading. Different form of plant shading will give different effect in heat reduction. The side-effect of plants, increasing of humidity , need to be investigated especially when applied in the Tropical Environment.
Journal papers
Thermal Performance of Biofacade with Natural Ventilation in the Tropical Climate
Journal papers
CO2 uptake Performance of Climbing Plant Wall
Journal of Architectural/Planning Research and Studies. Vol. 7 Issue 2, 2010
Exhibition
Buildtech 2011, Impact Muangthong 3-8 May 2011
Exhibition
NAC 2011, National Science and Technology Development Agency (NSTDA)
( The Architectural Journal No.08.2010-09.2010)
Journal papers
Greening the Building for Human and Environment
Last update 1 Febuary 2010(c) webmaster@biofacade.com