Emergence of a building envelope design depends upon the ‘Skin’ (material used), built form, building pattern and building scale or its proportions. Design features of an envelope strongly affect the visual and thermal comfort of the occupants, as well as energy consumption in the buildings. The envelope protects the building’s interior and occupants from the weather conditions and other external elements. Building envelope as the totality of (building) elements made up of components which separate the indoor environment of the building from the outdoor environment. Introductionīuilding envelope refers to an enclosure of a built environment, which comprises of walls, doors, windows, roof, skylights, and other openings for light and ventilation. The paper concludes with meaningful recommendations for sustainable development in designing future building envelopes. This study is an attempt to describe the integration of design factors like environmental, technological, socio- cultural, functional and aesthetic in building envelope and its components in making efficient and sustainable built form and space as per user comfort. Further design concept and technology discussed through relevant examples of various typologies of building envelope system and described the parameters of building envelope’s transparent and opaque components for evaluation. Study has described the difference in terms “energy efficiency and sustainability” in buildings and built spaces for users through the review of definitions and past researches. This paper aims to describe and highlight the role of design factors in building envelope and in its various components to achieve sustainable built environment. This creates a challenge to the designer and engineers to study and monitor the impact on performance of built form design factors. Designing of buildings and its envelope have a major focus on making buildings sustainable by reducing energy consumption without compromising on user’s comfort. Further innovation in designing and construction of contemporary building envelope and its components is likely to be developed rapidly. In contemporary scenario a major concern is to get a comfortable indoor environment in respect of thermal, visual and psychological comfort. ![]() ![]() Building envelopes and its components are designed with respect to environmental, technological, socio-cultural, functional and aesthetic factors. Consultant – Technical, Project Management & Business Developmentīuilding Envelope separates the interior from outside environment as well as provides a comfortable indoor atmosphere through an appropriate balance of passive and active technologies.
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