"Facade Talks" Has Started

AURA-Focus lecture series in cooperation with Reynaers Aluminum Turkey began a new series of events on facade technologies, which bring architects and designers, construction products and manufacturers. The series has started with the discussion about the development of the facade as a structural element under historical perspective. Series will be examined by experts with all aspects from architectural design process to application techniques, from architectural solutions in different geographies to energy producing technologies. The first of the conference series, consisting of three conferences, was held at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, hosting Faculty Member Prof. PhD. Mustafa Özgünler presenting "Interface in Structure: Façade" on 19 December. The sector representatives, such as architects, facade consultants, building industry professionals, academics and students showed great interest in the event, which was open to everyone's participation and free of charge.

The examination of the facade in the conference focused on the struggle of man with nature:

Since primitive times, the facade existed as a sheltered shell between the outside and the body. This shell has been updated as a form of human development. In order to examine the relationship with the shell, a similarity relationship was established between the developmental forms of shelter of primitive people and nests made by animals. Images and construction techniques of geometric forms of hives built by bees, nests of termites which are built stacked on top of the earth, and nests built by otters were presented. Today, natural factors that determine the façade—light through openings and closures, the density of layers on rough construction, heat, and disasters that require protection such as fire—are developed by considering these dynamic elements. The conference concluded by pointing out that we are on a course in which the façades of the future will reach the dynamism to respond simultaneously to environmental warnings.