The workshop Transformable Building Envelopes refers to the investigation and development of reconfigurable envelope structures, capable to change their shape according to external and internal building conditions and act as architectural technological envelope filters. The workshop participants will collaborate in small interdisciplinary groups, experiment, visualize, fabricate and research at individual stages of prototypes development process within interdisciplinary performance-based environments.

The proposals will be developed through physical modelling, digital simulation, numerical analysis and automated fabrication, aiming at achieving optimization in individual or multiple directions, addressing among other, lightweight, efficiency and adaptive features with enhanced sustainability. Along these lines, a number of multi-variables will be developed, whereas geometrical, functional, structural or environment-specific conditions will enable respective contextual applications.