Rethinking Building Skins: Transformative Technologies and Research Trajectories

Eugenia Gasparri is a Lecturer in Architectural Technologies at the University of Sydney. Her research experience is in the field of sustainable construction with a focus on envelope design, building prefabrication, and mass-timber technologies.

Arianna Brambilla is a Lecturer in Architecture at the University of Sydney. Her research draws upon architecture, building physics, and engineering to assess and interpret construction as a holistic concept, with a strong focus on sustainability.

Gabriele is an emerging researcher in renewable energy, with a focus on thedigitalization of solar energy in the built environment. His background isgrounded on building engineer and architecture knowledge and his expertiseconvers solar energy systems integration at building and district level, urbanenergy planning, smart cities, climate-based solutions, mitigation, and adaptationstrategies, and environmental, microclimate, and energy analyses.He is contributing to advance the state-of-the-art of solar energy explorationand integration through the definition of solar neighborhoods’ archetypes,approaches, methods, and tools to accelerate the use of solar energy inbuilt environments. Gabriele coordinated the Subtask C “Case studies andaction research in the IEA Task 51 Solar Energy in Urban Planning andnow he is coordinating the Subtask D “Case studies in the IEA Task 63Solar Neighbourhood Planning and the activity A3 - BIPV in our societywithin IEA PVPS Task 15 - Enabling Framework for the Development ofBIPV. Gabriele has experienced in several national (REINVENT andHELIOS), European (Exploit4InnoMat, RAMSES, and CoSSMic), and internationalresearch projects (SEniC, SiNoPSE, and iSTAR). Gabriele has co-/author of more than 65 publications, including research and review articlesin international high-impact peer-reviewed journals, national and internationalconference proceedings, book chapters, and books.

Francesco Goia is a Professor of Building Physics at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. His research focuses on advanced building envelopes and services providing high energy efficiency and indoor climate performance.

Annalisa Andaloro is a Senior Researcher at the Institute for Renewable Energy in EURAC, focusing on system integration and project economics. She coordinates an executive international training course on façade architecture, construction, and engineering (FACE).

Alberto Sangiorgio is an Associate at Grimshaw Architects (Sydney) where he operates as façade engineer and sustainability manager. He has extensive international experience in the design, optimization, and construction of high-performing building envelopes.