Architecture designs have developed in progressions of adaptation toward the surrounding natural environment. Especially for the issue of the thermal comfort, the architecture had developed and evolved in forms to provide appropriate indoor environmen...
Architecture designs have developed in progressions of adaptation toward the surrounding natural environment. Especially for the issue of the thermal comfort, the architecture had developed and evolved in forms to provide appropriate indoor environment. As a result to fulfill these needs, the design progressed in two design streams of “passive” and “active”. However, the passive and active architecture possesses several limitations.
Current thesis aims to seek for probable potential of a kinetic architecture to enhance thermal comfort of the building while solving the limitations of passive and active architecture. To seek for the possibilities of kinetic architecture, following steps had been processed.
First, the thesis analyzed the limitations of passive and active architecture through various literature review. Limitations can be summarized as 4 categories: Lighting, View, Energy Efficiency, and Spatial Restriction. Among these 4 limitations, the passive architecture possesses limitation on all of the 4 categories, and active architecture holds limitation on energy efficiency.
Second, the kinetic architecture has studied into 2 approaches. First approach is the case studies of built examples for overcoming 4 limitations of the passive and active architecture, with limitation on climate. These typical built cases indicate that the kinetic architecture seizes the prospective to meet appropriate thermal condition with overcoming the limitations of the previous building type.
Second approach in understanding the kinetic architecture is the macro and micro analysis of kinetic design characteristic. 31 built cases have been analyzed with following indicators: Climate, Control Mechanism, Operation, Visibility, and Spatial Scale. The relationships had been analyzed.
The result of analysis are shown as followed. In case of macro trend, the kinetic architecture features the method internal heat gain (Control mechanism), intrinsic method (Operation), high (Visibility), and the façade element (Spatial scale) the most. However, it does not show that there are no dominant climate zone for facilitating kinetic architecture. The micro scale architecture had been processed with kinetic architecture with façade element. It showed that kinetic architecture featuring the façade element, has high relationship between high visibility, extrinsic operation, and heat control method of internal heat gain. In addition, the cases for kinetic architecture characteristic with the façade element has been examined by feature, operation, and material.
Through the analysis and case studies, it is showed that the kinetic architecture occupies a strong characteristic that can be one of the solution for the limitations that passive and active architecture possess. Furthermore, the trend analysis showed the dominant characteristic of kinetic architecture that makes it possible to solve the limitations of previous architecture.