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The environmentally responsive polymeric membranes regenerate (release water), insulate, and diffuse natural daylighting during the day, while adsorbing humidity and actuating ventilation at night, a combination of strategies appropriate for a hot-humid climate.
The Dynamic Regenerative Integrated Polymeric Skins (DRIPS) system provides a fluctuating building envelope that functionally embeds a material logic that responds passively to diurnal environmental conditions.
How can we viably capture humidity from the air for potable water?
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Contexts Challenges and Opportunities
Interscalar Air-to-Water Metabolism (Anna Dyson & Aletheia Ida)
Perforated Hydrogel Ceiling
Humidity Recuperation for conditioning of Indoor Air (Anna Dyson & Marcel Perez-Pirio)
Hydrogel-based building-envelope integrated membrane concept
Hydrogel-based building-envelope integrated membrane concept for climate resource metabolism and air-to-water fluid exchanges (Ida & Dyson., 2015).
Multiscalar Functionalization of Hygrothermal Behaviors
Schematic Design for Dynamic Facade Systems (Dyson, Ida & Perez-Pirio)
Hygrothermally dynamic building envelopes
Climate responsive adaptive biopolymeric membrane environmental performance criteria for multivalent temporal design conditions (Ida & Dyson., 2015).
Hygrothermal Building Envelope Performance Benefits
Annual Potential Water Collection and Energy Conservation for Cooling Loads.
Synthesis and Characterization of Dynamic Hydrogel Behaviors
(Ida & Dyson et al., 2012; Ida, 2018).
Hydrogel Sorption Process
Programming architectural design criteria into the responsive geometry of dynamic hygrothermal membranes interfacing ambient conditions at the building envelope (Ida & Dyson et al., 2012; Ida, 2018).
Hydrogel Polymeric Membrane
Designing nested responsive skins that interface ambient resources with hygrothermal air quality and comfort needs (Ida & Dyson et al., 2012; Ida, 2018).
Hygrothermally dynamic building envelopes
Enhancing Environmental Control Systems with Intelligent Desiccant Materials for Thermal Comfort, Energy Generation and Water Recuperation (Perez-Pirio & Dyson., 2008).
Contexts Challenges and Opportunities
Interscalar Air-to-Water Metabolism (Anna Dyson & Aletheia Ida)
Perforated Hydrogel Ceiling
Humidity Recuperation for conditioning of Indoor Air (Anna Dyson & Marcel Perez-Pirio)
Hydrogel-based building-envelope integrated membrane concept
Hydrogel-based building-envelope integrated membrane concept for climate resource metabolism and air-to-water fluid exchanges (Ida & Dyson., 2015).
Multiscalar Functionalization of Hygrothermal Behaviors
Schematic Design for Dynamic Facade Systems (Dyson, Ida & Perez-Pirio)
Hygrothermally dynamic building envelopes
Climate responsive adaptive biopolymeric membrane environmental performance criteria for multivalent temporal design conditions (Ida & Dyson., 2015).
Hygrothermal Building Envelope Performance Benefits
Annual Potential Water Collection and Energy Conservation for Cooling Loads.
Synthesis and Characterization of Dynamic Hydrogel Behaviors
(Ida & Dyson et al., 2012; Ida, 2018).
Hydrogel Sorption Process
Programming architectural design criteria into the responsive geometry of dynamic hygrothermal membranes interfacing ambient conditions at the building envelope (Ida & Dyson et al., 2012; Ida, 2018).
Hydrogel Polymeric Membrane
Designing nested responsive skins that interface ambient resources with hygrothermal air quality and comfort needs (Ida & Dyson et al., 2012; Ida, 2018).
Hygrothermally dynamic building envelopes
Enhancing Environmental Control Systems with Intelligent Desiccant Materials for Thermal Comfort, Energy Generation and Water Recuperation (Perez-Pirio & Dyson., 2008).
Contexts Challenges and Opportunities
Interscalar Air-to-Water Metabolism (Anna Dyson & Aletheia Ida)
Perforated Hydrogel Ceiling
Humidity Recuperation for conditioning of Indoor Air (Anna Dyson & Marcel Perez-Pirio)
Hydrogel-based building-envelope integrated membrane concept
Hydrogel-based building-envelope integrated membrane concept for climate resource metabolism and air-to-water fluid exchanges (Ida & Dyson., 2015).
Multiscalar Functionalization of Hygrothermal Behaviors
Schematic Design for Dynamic Facade Systems (Dyson, Ida & Perez-Pirio)
Hygrothermally dynamic building envelopes
Climate responsive adaptive biopolymeric membrane environmental performance criteria for multivalent temporal design conditions (Ida & Dyson., 2015).
Hygrothermal Building Envelope Performance Benefits
Annual Potential Water Collection and Energy Conservation for Cooling Loads.
Synthesis and Characterization of Dynamic Hydrogel Behaviors
(Ida & Dyson et al., 2012; Ida, 2018).
Hydrogel Sorption Process
Programming architectural design criteria into the responsive geometry of dynamic hygrothermal membranes interfacing ambient conditions at the building envelope (Ida & Dyson et al., 2012; Ida, 2018).
Hydrogel Polymeric Membrane
Designing nested responsive skins that interface ambient resources with hygrothermal air quality and comfort needs (Ida & Dyson et al., 2012; Ida, 2018).