• 국제초고층학회논문집
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• 제12권2호
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• pp.107-120
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• 2023

Tall buildings are frequently decried as unsustainable due to their excessive energy usage. Early skyscrapers used natural light and ventilation to facilitate human comfort and applied organic materials such as stone, glass, wood, concrete, and terra cotta for cladding and finishes. With the advent of fluorescent lighting, modern heating, ventilation, air-conditioning (HVAC) systems, and thermally sealed curtain walls, tall office buildings no longer had to rely on natural light and ventilation to provide comfort. Energy efficiency was not a significant factor when the operational costs of buildings were relatively inexpensive. However, today's skyscrapers must become more energy-efficient and sustainable due to energy crises and climate change. This paper highlights vital energy-efficient design principles and demonstrates with illustrative case studies how they are applied to tall buildings in various parts of the world. It shows how sustainable environmental systems do not act alone but are integrated with advanced curtain wall systems, sky gardens, and atria, among others, to regulate and sustain thermal comfort and conserve energy.

• 국제초고층학회논문집
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• 제6권2호
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• pp.187-196
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• 2017

A generation of tall buildings has been dominated by International Style with full height glazing that is often vision glass. Large glass was intended to bring the outside in, to allow a connection to the natural environment, and to promote daylighting. Yet the glass box model of architecture is now under criticism due to expense to build, thermal and visual comfort issues for occupants, large carbon footprints, danger for birds, and aesthetic concerns with lack of transparency. This paper will take a fresh look at glass, transparency, energy consumption, and human health before offering alternative paths forward.

• 국제초고층학회논문집
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.35-43
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• 2021

With the rapid urbanization and growing energy use intensity in the built environment, the glazed curtainwall has become ever more important in the architectural practice and environmental stewardship. Besides its energy efficiency roles, window has been an important transparent component for daylight penetration and a view-out for occupant satisfaction. In response to the climate crisis caused by the built environment, this research focuses on the study of net-zero energy retrofitting by using a new building integrated photovoltaic (BIPV) curtainwall as a sustainable alternative to conventional window systems. Design variables such as building orientations, climate zones, energy attributes of BIPV curtainwalls, and glazed area were studied, to minimize energy consumption and discomfort hours for three cities representing hot (Miami, FL), mixed (Charlotte, NC), and cold (Minneapolis, MN). Parametric analysis and Pareto solutions are presented to provide a comprehensive explanation of the correlation between design variables and performance objectives for net-zero energy retrofitting applications.

• 한국디지털건축인테리어학회논문집
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• 제13권4호
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• pp.69-76
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• 2013

As the energy consumed in building area has occupied a lot when looking into energy usage weights in area over the world, energy reduction building, eco-friendly architecture comes to the fore in the modern architecture. Discussions on the eco-friendly architecture have various concept definitions and targets to be achieved.The architectural works of Norman Foster are expressed as high-tech buildings using iron, glass, etc. in appearance, but they appear as those buildings with low energy load by analyzing environmental conditions from initial design stage that each building has, utilizing natural energy with design of outer shell and applying proper technical system. Thus, this study aims at providing basic data of outer shell planning through eco-friendly element technologies by considering pattern and outer shell design of buildings, principles of eco-friendly building plan as an eco-friendly building planning technique of Norman Foster as an example of plans to utilize building pattern, outer shell design and natural environments, in order to utilize passive measures as much as possible to increase energy saving methods and increase comfort by analyzing element technologies in the eco-friendly architecture in line with the modern flow.

• 교육녹색환경연구
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• 제16권2호
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• pp.54-63
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• 2017

건물에너지 자립과 온실가스 배출 저감에 BIPV 역할이 증대되는 가운데 기존 결정계의 한계를 극복할 수 있는 DSC의 적용이 주목받고 있다. 특히 DSC의 다양한 색상과 투명성 그리고 방향에 무관한 작동성은 모듈의 다기능 복합재로서 BIPV폭을 크게 확장시킨다. 이에 사례조사 분석을 통해 DSC BIPV의 가능성을 살펴보고 그 활용성을 조망한다. 국 내외 각 3건씩의 사례 조사 분석을 통해 나타난 대부분의 DSC BIPV는 주로 창호와 차양 장치로 구현되고 있고 이는 DSC의 특성과 무관치 않다. 즉, 다양한 색상과 투명성의 모듈은 건물 외피디자인과 에너지 획득에 커다란 전환점을 마련하고 있는 것으로 파악된다. 한편으로는 적용모듈의 색상으로 인한 눈의 자극성이 존재하여 BIPV 창호적용에는 건물 및 실의 용도에 따른 색감 고려가 필수적이고 건물외피 적용을 위한 유연한 모듈개발의 경우 DSC BIPV는 상당히 기대되는 확산성을 가질 것이다.