Energy saving through Building Envelope Innovation: Smart Skin Design

The paper introduces an innovative smart skin system that can be integrated with the closing system for new and existing multilevel buildings. Its purpose is to reduce the buildings’ energetic consumptions and to improve the comfort conditions by checking and modulating the solar radiation. The smart skin solution introduced in this article is studied in geographical areas with a temperate climate. The energetic analysis carried out in the dynamic regime of a business building located in the North-Eastern Mediterranean area of Italy equipped with smart skin, underlines that the developed technological system solves the energetic and architectural redevelopment problem in just one intervention in line with the UE Directive.