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Formal Characteristics of Pattern-Based Contemporary Building Skins


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DOI: https://doi.org/10.15866/irece.v14i5.23193

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Building facades and skins are the most important components in enhancing the building's aesthetics and attractiveness. Over the past decades, digital technologies have provided architects with tools that helped create designs characterized by richness, diversity, and formal complexity while addressing environmental performance. This paper deals with building skins that depend on formal patterns and elements as a basis for their designs and focuses on exploring the aspects responsible for their formal diversity. The research relies on previous studies and contemporary realistic designs to extrapolate the characteristics affecting formal diversity. The paper identifies the most important diversifying features, such as the sources of intellectual inspiration for the skin designs, the relationship of the skin to the structure, the characteristics of the geometric form for both the building's surface and skin and the number of skins used. The formal variations among building skins have mostly resulted from the geometric form of skin elements and their distribution method. In addition, some skin elements are changeable by adopting formal transformations such as scaling, bending, twisting, and expanding; or they are movable according to specific forces. Finally, the impact of the building materials used on the formation of buildings’ skins is highlighted, especially the features of rigidity, flexibility, smartness, etc.
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Building Skin Design; Pattern-Based Design; Building Skin Elements; Building Skin Formation

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