Future Developments

The adaptability of façades is actually nothing new. The façade has always had a variety of static and dynamic tasks. For example, manually controllable openings or sun protection devices are traditional “adaptive” components - and yet these components in particular have experienced a considerable leap in innovation in recent years. Under the collective term “Future Developments”, this chapter would like to provide a glance into ongoing research and development topics for new technical solutions of adaptive façades. The focus is on innovations that are not yet established on the market and are being touched by the COST TU1403 Adaptive Façades Network at the time of writing. It can certainly be assumed that there are many more innovations in the field of adaptive façades. The COST TU1403 publications refer in this sense to further topics, which are not illustrated here