Evaporative Cooling/Shading Membrane for Urban Structures
Principal Researchers : Anto Gloren, Payal C, Sayali Athale
The development of this product started in 2016 under the Indo-Swiss Development Co-operation’s competition of Shading devices. The product Idea won the competition in the Residential Shading device category and was funded further for development. The exhibited product only provided solar shading in order to reduce the cooling loads of the space. Although this product was also quite interesting to the sponsor, we felt the product could do more to not only reduce the SHGC but also to actively cool the building. We developed two façade composites for use on glass facades and on opaque facades that through evaporative cooling provided promising test results. The changing opacity along with laminar cooling for glass facades is an added advantage in geographies with extreme climates.
