The sustainability, energy efficiency, and comfort of a building often lies hand in hand with its facade. Aside from being the most visible part of the building, façades play an important role in creating a healthy indoor environment, contribute to sustainable building practices, and are key in reducing operational costs due to their potential longevity.

SMARTeeSTORY's TU Delft team has contributed to the Massive Open Online Course on Performance-based Façade Design. There, in module 5.4 designed to focus on user comfort in the acoustic and multi domain areas of the building, they explore how facades can be designed with the user comfort in mind:

Users in a building space are simultaneously exposed to different environmental domains: from thermal, visual (light levels and views outside the window), acoustics, and air quality. All these factors combined creates what the user perceives as comfort in an indoor space. Understanding the user experience and how they behave is thus an important measure in determining how successful a design is.

Check out the full course on TU Delft's online learning platform: