{"id":14513,"date":"2025-07-01T04:54:34","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T04:54:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/csac\/?page_id=14513"},"modified":"2025-07-01T04:54:34","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T04:54:34","slug":"timber-active-envelopes-project","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/csac\/research\/timber-active-envelopes-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Timber Active Envelopes project"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>\n\t\tTimber Active Envelopes: Modular Facades for Resilient Built Environments\n\t<\/h2>\n\t<p><strong>(April 2024 &#8211; December 2025)<\/strong><\/p>\nPrincipal Investigators: <strong>Dr Eugenia GASPARRI, University of Sydney;<\/strong><strong>\u00a0Prof HENG Chye Kiang<br \/>\n<\/strong>Co-PIs: <strong>Dr Aysu KURU, Assoc Prof Arianna BRAMBILLA, University of Sydney; Dr CHEN Tianyi, Dr Carlos CLEMENT, Prof NG Ming Shan<\/strong>\n\t<p><strong>Project Overview<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This multidisciplinary research project tackles critical challenges in decarbonising the construction sector, enhancing building energy sufficiency, strengthening food security, and bolstering urban resilience. The project focuses on developing innovative, high-performance fa\u00e7ade systems for multi-storey buildings using low-carbon materials, such as mass timber, which are integrated with active technologies for renewable energy production, including Building-Integrated Photovoltaics &#8211; BIPVs, and vertical farming (Building-Integrated Agriculture &#8211; BIA).<\/p>\n\t<p><strong>Key Objectives<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Design and prototype modular, fully prefabricated timber fa\u00e7ade systems that are easy to assemble, disassemble, and maintain.<\/li>\n<li>Assess hygrothermal performance and moisture safety under Singapore and Australian climatic conditions.<\/li>\n<li>Evaluate environmental and economic benefits of the fa\u00e7ade systems using Building Information Modelling (BIM) and Life Cycle Analysis.<\/li>\n<li>Demonstrate technical feasibility through the construction of full-scale prototypes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<strong><br \/>\nKey Achievements<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Development of novel Timber Active Envelope (TAE) designs combining sustainable materials with active technologies.<\/li>\n<li>Successful collaboration between two leading universities in sustainable construction.<\/li>\n<li>Industry partnerships established with Permasteelisa Group and ARC Advance Timber Hub.<\/li>\n<li>Completion of prototype construction and exhibition.<\/li>\n<li>Submission of journal and conference publications.<\/li>\n<li>Laying of foundation for future large-scale research funding applications.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/csac\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2025\/07\/Timber-Active-Envelope.jpg\" alt=\"The Active Timber Envelope (ATE) system integrates two modular and unitised active technologies: solar PV and vertical farming. ATE offers customisable facade options, including an opaque solar PV facade with insulation and a semi-transparent double-glazed facade with integrated vertical farming, to meet specific building design requirements.\" height=\"409\" width=\"601\" title=\"Timber Active Envelope\" \/>\n\t\tThe Active Timber Envelope (ATE) system integrates two modular and unitised active technologies: solar PV and vertical farming. ATE offers customisable facade options, including an opaque solar PV facade with insulation and a semi-transparent double-glazed facade with integrated vertical farming, to meet specific building design requirements.\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Timber Active Envelopes: Modular Facades for Resilient Built Environments (April 2024 &#8211; December 2025) Principal Investigators: Dr Eugenia GASPARRI, University of Sydney;\u00a0Prof HENG Chye Kiang Co-PIs: Dr Aysu KURU, Assoc Prof Arianna BRAMBILLA, University of Sydney; Dr CHEN Tianyi, Dr Carlos CLEMENT, Prof NG Ming Shan Project Overview This multidisciplinary research project tackles critical challenges [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":334,"featured_media":0,"parent":52,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"no-sidebar","site-content-layout":"page-builder","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"disabled","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"disabled","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-14513","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/csac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/csac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/csac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/csac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/csac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14513"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/csac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14515,"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/csac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14513\/revisions\/14515"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/csac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/52"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/csac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}