Review and Mapping of Parameters for the Early Stage Design of Adaptive Building Technologies through Life Cycle Assessment Tools
Adaptive Building Technologies have opened up a growing field of architectural research
aimed at improving the overall building performance, ensuring comfort while reducing operational
energy consumption. Focusing on flexibility over short timeframes, these new technologies are
however rarely designed within the broader frame of sustainability over their entire lifecycle. How
sustainable these zero energy technologies really are is yet to be established. The purpose of the