This search aims to introduce the voronoi diagram, its history and its
characteristics of space wayfinding, occupation analysis and space
evolution. In addition to introducing the most important applications in
architecture : urban planning , arch
itectural design, landscape and even
construction, and the benefits in terms of the effective and orderly
division of the land and integration with nature and achieve tectonic.
The search turns into studying the Voronoi diagram applications on
facades by analyzing and comparing a range of contemporary
architectural projects adopted Voronoi in designing facades, and is
reached through the comparative study of Voronoi applications on
facades to the standards in terms of function, form, construction and
sustainability. Research concludes with a set of recommendations.
In this research, we will retrace the types of the smart
facades and the ways of its execution for the huge range in which
they have occupied in modern constructions due to the accelerated
development in the used technics to reach the functional, aesthetic
,beneficial of the construction.
The start of glass used in architecture is for decorative purposes
on the walls and ceilings, then, its use developments as a
transparent windows (as in Gothic architecture), up to the
greenhouses. Then, the industrial revolution came to help in t
he
emergence of large public buildings such as buildings of railways
and airports through the use of wide span and large expanses of
glass in the façades to enable the entry of light to dark interior
spaces. Later the international style emerged, which was most of its
façades of glass, and spread to all countries, and the architecture
transformed under it to timelessness and nowhere architecture.
The technique of glass façades developed and grownup till the
Glass Curtain Walls in recent decades, but refuse fully glazed
façades by architects and environmental scientists are no longer
acceptable anymore, because of a deep understanding of their
various functional properties, and of the evolution of new
technologies that have demonstrated the positive role of Glass
Curtain Wall (aesthetically, architecturally, environmentally,
socially, and structurally).
This article provided a brief overview on the history of the use
of the glass in architecture, concept of Glass Curtain Walls, and it’s
most important systems and the most important types of glass,
which used in it, to give you an idea of the available options of
systems and types. Then analyzed the functional properties of the
Glass Curtain Wall (glass façades), through a study of international
and local examples (Damascus).
