Origami-inspired interactive kinetic façades design: Using different interaction areas of students’ positions to improve visual comfort in schools in Egypt

Abstract

Nowadays, we are faced with multi-sustainability challenges in the existing buildings in different sectors. Especially in the educational sector, this is a result of the disregard for their orientations and location and changes in the education system, which leads to the possibility of developing the functions and needs of these buildings. Thus, dealing with and monitoring educational buildings, especially schools, and changing them to sustainable and smart buildings are the main approach in recent days. Besides using Kinetic and interactive building envelopes is the main factor of building sustainability as referred by the literature and occupants’ preferences involvement in the façade design, it provides more efficiency of the environmental performance, especially in visual comfort and improving the users' comfort. Enhancing visual performance and decreasing energy consumption leads to improvement in occupants’ well-being and productivity and a healthy learning environment in schools. This research discusses what is the suitable proposed geometrical approach of modular interactive façade design, and how it is simple to modulate, apply and adapt to external and internal changes. The main aim of this research is to study and apply adaptive and 3D modular interactive kinetic origami-based façade (IKF) and the development of form proportions of its modulation to improve the quality of daylighting performance for all orientations using climate studio software according to specific parameters to meet the standard daylight level in public schools in Egypt according to daylight and students' positions. The results show that the proposed IKF prevents visual discomfort and improves daylight performance.