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The design enables shading under both high and low sun angles, without blocking visibility to the outdoor environment. The basic module of the facade consists of four shading devices that can be folded along both horizontal and vertical axes. We present an adaptive facade that reduces solar heat gain and hence the energy consumption of the building, with minimal reduction in visual comfort (i.e., indoor lighting levels and visibility to the outer environment) of the users.

In this paper, we investigate the design of an adaptive biomimetic facade as a practical solution for enhancing energy efficiency of highly glazed buildings in the hot and humid regions. In conclusion, the study recommends the intelligent facades to become an inherent constituent of green buildings for future development of low energy buildings. The findings demonstrate that energy modeling and simulations should be performed during the early stage of design process of buildings to ensure the practicality and effectiveness of any green implementations in buildings. Intelligent facades need to be responsive and conscious to the local climate, outdoor environment, and indoor spaces with view to parameters such as energy performance, thermal comfort, indoor air quality, visual comfort, etc. This research focused on presenting the most clearly and comprehensive perception of the intelligent façades, in a manner that serves the ability of the designer to apply them in his designs or while developing an existing façades in buildings. In order to meet the functional performance and requirements on the environmental, ecological, social and aesthetical aspects, it became a necessity to develop another options of building that would be more efficient in the provision of those requirements, so a new generation have appeared called 'Smart Buildings' or 'Intelligent Buildings' with their sophisticated parts and various details, one of those essential parts is the 'Intelligent Façade' for it's being the essential and primary defensive line for the building against the environmental and climatic variations.

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