Responding to reducing environmental impact and energy consumption trends,
there is an emerging need for a more extensive use of new technologies in architecture.
Thus appears the Responsive Building Elements (RBSs), technologies which are able to take
advantage of environment properties.
The present work deals with the use of active façades not only in the current framework,
but in the future projection. It deepens into how its application is being addressed.
It describes the social and environmental impact that will cause, with an estimate of new
technologies and materials influence in its future construction.
The Smart Façade
Date: 2018