2024 - FPS SF

The project is a proposal that seeks to adapt buildings to problems that have been increasing in recent decades, significantly and negatively affecting their quality of use and interior comfort. Waves of extreme heat and cold have arisen more frequently in recent years due to climate change. Given these challenges, the shortcomings and difficulties of facing and controlling abrupt changes in temperatures without dispensing with artificial heating systems become evident, generating dependency and excessive use that causes high energy consumption, ruling out the viability of passive or sustainable alternatives. With these considerations, based on situations that present buildings with large glass facades, whether from private programs or homes at different scales; and how they look for ways to solve deficiencies based on individual interventions that colonize the facades in diverse ways, such as protection or heating equipment; We seek to devise a system that can adapt to these fluctuating conditions with the aim of reducing indoor consumption. PROJECT The integration of an exterior skin is projected that is attached to the pre-existing facade by means of a metal structure, this consists of a resistant, light and translucent textile, which not only generates a ventilated plane, but also allows the entry of light without blocking the connection with the outside, avoiding being a programmatic condition. At the same time, this fabric is bathed in a thermochromic paint, adopting protection against UV rays, but even more importantly, giving it the ability to change color depending on the temperature, beyond the visual control it offers, allowing an increase or decrease of the internal comfort of the building thanks to the use of incident solar radiation. A system that demonstrates great versatility, being able to adapt to cold, hot and temperate climates, thanks to the possibilities of altering the range of colors according to the climatic requirements of the region, managing to reduce, according to studies, the requirement for other elements of conditioning. A facade that can be adapted to all types of forms and programmatic complexities that aspires to provide support to the sustainability complexities that arise today and in the future.