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TITLE:
Natures Buildings as Trees: Biologically Inspired Glass as an Energy System
AUTHORS:
Mark Edward Alston
KEYWORDS:
Energy, Biological Inspired Engineering, Solar, Adaptive, City Resilience
JOURNAL NAME:
Optics and Photonics Journal,
Vol.5 No.4,
April
15,
2015
ABSTRACT: The adaptive
capacity in creating intelligent glass surfaces will be investigated using the principles
of solar absorbance and active fluidic conductivity management as an energy system.
To act as a thermal adsorption layer by applying bio-logically inspired engineering
aims, of capture in enabling thermal transfer and control to regulate material composition.
The creation of an adaptive cooling layer, by responsive measures to mirror our
eco-systems through the employment of programmable self-awareness measures to regulate
solar adsorption. These strategies for adaptation could enable the transformation
of tall buildings, from mere material entities to mimic the intelligent surfaces
of trees. Nature’s eco-systems are living multi-functional mechanical
information systems of chemical composition forming hierarchical structures.
They have the ability to learn and adapt to changing climatic circumstance by
self-regulation of solar adsorption, to achieve material thermal management.
These programmable controls of adaptive material performance change in
relationship to solar capture. Could this be harnessed to exploit the functionalities
and behavior of materials on the surfaces of buildings to act as an energy system,
by the application of bio-logically inspired engineering aims: 1) Material absorbency:
thermal conductivity adsorption of solar irradiance. 2) Adaptive real-time
performance: material autonomy.