104th ACSA Annual Meeting Proceedings, Shaping New Knowledges

Phase Change Materials, Collaborations with BASF and CMoG

Annual Meeting Proceedings

Author(s): Georg Rafailidis

This paper documents research that we began in 2009 into the development of a glassblock facade component filled with PCM (phase change material) in collaboration withthe chemical company BASF. The research has, more recently, included offshoots intoexperimentation with glass fabrication and researching the structural and architecturalpotentials of dry-stacked corbelled structures.

Volume Editors
Robert Corser & Sharon Haar

ISBN
978-1-944214-03-6