The Effect of Utilizing Photovoltaic Systems Technique as External Finishing Materials in the Architectural Product

الجادري, احسان علي; محمد سليم, يونس محمود

doi:10.30684/etj.28.11.17

	The Effect of Utilizing Photovoltaic Systems Technique as External Finishing Materials in the Architectural Product
Engineering and Technology Journal
Article 1, Volume 28, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 520-534 PDF (384.21 K)
DOI: 10.30684/etj.28.11.17
Authors
احسان علي الجادري; يونس محمود محمد سليم
Abstract
Forms of advanced technology have influenced contemporary architecture; some of which are related to environmental-climatic control systems, such as Photovoltaic systems which fall under a set of concepts concerned with the integration of building with the environment. These concepts have emerged as a result of a basic idea, namely, the utilization of technology by applying it to architectural design ideas in order to reduce energy consumption used in operating a building such that it can reach a minimum. In addition, photovoltaic systems can integrate with a building as finishing materials which become part of the external crust design, considered as elements having the capability of responding and being evoked by external environmental causes. Accordingly, the research problem is exemplified by the unavailability of comprehensive knowledge concerning the nature of treatments or procedures that a designer can adopt while employing the Photovoltaic systems as external finishing materials in the crust of the building. This research aims at getting acquainted with the methods of architectural integration with Photovoltaic systems and the means of utilizing them in promoting the formal acceptance of the final architectural product. This research also puts forward the assumption that the Photovoltaic systems carry the potentials which qualify them to have an effect on the shape of the building when they are employed as finishing external materials. The end of this research arrived at the conclusion that it is necessary to try to balance two things: achieving the formal aspect of buildings and saving the energy produced by those systems, in addition to the necessity of achieving a positive conformity between passive and active systems in designing a building.

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