Adaptive materials research for architecture / edited by Santina Di Salvo.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed September, 28, 2018).

Intro; Adaptive Materials Research for Architecture; Preface; Table of Contents; Past as Future in Adaptive Buildings: Climatic Adaptation in Ancient Constructions; The Adaptation of Architecture to the Climate during the Roman Period According to Classical Authors; The Use of Natural Earth as Concret Slab: The Dome for the Auditorium of Sant Julià de Ramis Fortress (Girona); Advances in Research for Biomimetic Materials; The Role of Energy Technologies and Scenarios in the Decarbonisation Process; Adaptive-Curvature Structures with Auxetic Materials

Building Optimization: The Adaptive FaçadeFlussbad Berlin Re-Naturalization Project for the Spree River in the Museum Island; Kinetic Solutions for Responsive and Communicative Building Skin; Addition Strategy and Multi-Layered Envelopes in Building Adaptation: A Methodological Framework; Textiles and Archaeological Sites: Towards a Methodology for Designing Lightweight Protective Structures; Keyword Index; Author Index

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