#DEFINE BUILDING ENVELOPE SKIN#
#DEFINE BUILDING ENVELOPE PRO#

The infrastructure of the city still needs to be environmentally sustainable and improvements are required.

#DEFINE BUILDING ENVELOPE PRO#

This is mainly due to government-initiated programs like the Pro Air Programme. This incredible smog eating façade is proposed to combat air pollutants and neutralize them and improve air quality.

#DEFINE BUILDING ENVELOPE SKIN#

The government hence after has taking multiple indicatives to fix this problem, one such program was the Pro Air Programme, and once such skin construction that took place during these attempts was the ‘Manuel Gea Gonzales hospital’ building. The second case that would be an intriguing follow up in terms of ‘value increment in ambition to the local context’ is Manuel Gea Gonzales Hospital, Mexico As reported by the Washington Post in 2010, ‘Mexico once had the world’s worst air, with skies so poisonous that birds dropped dead in flight’. Manuel Gea Gonzales Hospital, Mexico The de-polluting prosolve370e façade Manuel Gea Gonzales Hospital, Mexico Here we shall look at two starkly different contexts and their proposed interventions that function as ‘Acupuncture Solutions’ within the existing urban weave. Understanding the aspirations and demands of the local context is imperative. UNDERSTANDING THE NEW SKINS IN THEIR CONTEXTS Having said that, it would not be incorrect to define the building envelope as an environmental filter.

Enforcing the use of energy intensive HVAC and lighting systems to mitigate the unwanted conditions, which transform the indoor space in to a ‘manufactured’ rather than a ‘mediated’ environment (Addington & Schodek, 2005). Moreover, the development in building technology and building performance have led to a building envelope that designed so that the buildings are dependent on additional systems during large parts of the year. The lack of resources has often made us resourceful and thus passive solutions such as solar insolation, thermal mass, shading, and natural ventilation, have always been integral to the way we build.

The Indian subcontinent has always seen extreme climate and thus, the primary purpose of the building envelopes is to protect the occupants against the same. Over the last few decades, these outer skins have seen dramatic evolution while some were due to material advancements, some were due to developments in construction methods. Largely understood as a tempering screen that wraps around the spatial arrangements to form a shelter. The building envelope is often referred to as the skin of the building that protects the core from environmental damage.

Define building envelope