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Circular Hybrid Façades: Responsive design of thermally efficient 3D printed concrete skins on reused concrete elements
KTH, School of Architecture and the Built Environment (ABE), Civil and Architectural Engineering, Concrete Structures.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-0641-0567
Technical University of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-5063-4595
KTH, School of Architecture and the Built Environment (ABE), Civil and Architectural Engineering, Concrete Structures.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-1526-9331
2025 (English)In: Meta Responsive Approaches: Proceedings of the XXIX Conference of the Iberoamerican Society of Digital Graphics (SIGraDi 2025) / [ed] Hernández, S.P., Boccolini, S. M., Herrera, P.C., CUMINCAD , 2025, p. 1135-1146, article id 309Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

3D concrete printing (3DCP) offers a versatile, flexible approach for producing customisable, project-specific components as one-off solutions. This paper explores the use of 3DCP as a circular retrofit strategy to fabricate thermally optimised facade outer skins for reused concrete elements. This work formulates a computational design-to-fabrication workflow for the development of three-wythe printed elements, assessing printability, material quantities, and 2D numerical simulations in THERM, while maintaining a consistent internal topology for fabrication. The approach is tested by simulating and comparing four variants from a benchmark uniform section to a customised design. Thermal transmittance improved from 0.41 W/(m2·K) for the base design to 0.29 W/(m2·K) for the custom variable case, using the same amount of printing material. These findings indicate that performance-driven design can deliver meaningful performance upgrades for reuse and suggest the potential of 3DCP as a key enabler technology to facilitate reuse and advance circularity in the built environment.

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CUMINCAD , 2025. p. 1135-1146, article id 309
Keywords [en]
3D Concrete Printing, responsive facade, reused concrete, additive manufacturing, circular construction.
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Building Technologies Architectural Engineering
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Civil and Architectural Engineering, Concrete Structures; Civil and Architectural Engineering, Building Technology
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URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-374870OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-374870DiVA, id: diva2:2025272
Conference
XXIX Conference of the Iberoamerican Society of Digital Graphics (SIGraDi 2025), Universidad Nacional de Cordoba (UNC), Argentina, 19-21 November 2025
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EU, Horizon 2020, 958200
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Available from: 2026-01-05 Created: 2026-01-05 Last updated: 2026-01-05Bibliographically approved

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