What is a facade?
Many of us live and work in cities packed with high-rise buildings. We spend more than 90 percent of our lives indoors, largely unaware that the quality of our ‘building façades’ (our building ‘skins’) make an enormous difference to our comfort and safety, and play a big role in determining the environmental impact of our buildings.
Façades protect us from the weather outside and connect with internal structures to keep us safe, high up off the ground. Yet we cannot take them for granted. These learning conversations, presented by the Professional Learning Hub, with A/Prof Cheryl Desha, explore an important feature of our built environment.
Facades in Focus
Learning Conversations
A/Prof Cheryl Desha
School of Engineering and Built Environment
Everything is connected and 'where' is critical to thriving, now and into the future. A/Prof Cheryl Desha is working towards resilient and regenerative cities through encouraging evidence-based decision-making. This includes partnering with industry and government to deliver right-time and right-place knowledge and skills, and using nature inspired (biomimetic), nature loving (biophilic) and place based (digital-spatial) approaches to problem solving.
Dr Shanmuganathan (Guna) Gunalan
School of Engineering and Built Environment
Dr Shanmuganathan 'Guna' Gunalan is a Senior Lecturer, pursuing innovative solutions for sustainable and disaster-resilient buildings and facades. Prior to completing a PhD in 2012, Guna worked as a structural engineer in industry. As an academic teaching in this field for almost a decade, he has received high praise from students and university recognition for excellence in teaching structural engineering topics.
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