| Acknowledgements | 第1-7页 |
| Table of contents | 第7-13页 |
| List of Table captions | 第13-14页 |
| List of Figure captions | 第14-20页 |
| Glossary | 第20-24页 |
| 摘要 | 第24-25页 |
| Abstract | 第25-27页 |
| 1 Introduction | 第27-39页 |
| ·Study Background | 第27-30页 |
| ·Significance and Objective of present study | 第30页 |
| ·Scope of present study | 第30-33页 |
| ·Study scope | 第31页 |
| ·Limitations | 第31-33页 |
| ·Structure of thesis | 第33-37页 |
| ·Conceptual framework | 第33-34页 |
| ·Theoretical framework | 第34-36页 |
| ·Outline of Thesis Chapters | 第36-37页 |
| ·Research Hypothesis | 第37-39页 |
| 2 Literature Review | 第39-89页 |
| ·Brief Historical overview of multi-facade design | 第39-44页 |
| ·Evolution of Intelligent building skin systems | 第44-45页 |
| ·Climate structure of Cold-Winter/Hot-Summer Regions | 第45-52页 |
| ·China's HSCW climate zone outline | 第47-50页 |
| ·Winter climate characteristics | 第50-52页 |
| ·Summer climate characteristics | 第52页 |
| ·Heat transfer coefficient and index of thermal inertia of building envelopes in HSCW zone | 第52-55页 |
| ·Energy budget of buildings in HSCW region | 第55-58页 |
| ·Thermal comfort | 第58-64页 |
| ·Solar radiation | 第58页 |
| ·Thermal comfort index | 第58-61页 |
| ·Human energy balance | 第61页 |
| ·The thermal values in HSCW regions,its effects on building facades and indoor comfort | 第61-64页 |
| ·Configuration of building skins and intelligent facade designs | 第64-70页 |
| ·Bio-tectonic principles in facade design for extreme climates | 第65-66页 |
| ·Changeable skin concept in facade design | 第66-70页 |
| ·Principles of Surfaces in Building envelope design | 第70-73页 |
| ·Classification of surface design principles | 第70-71页 |
| ·Types of surfaces | 第71-73页 |
| ·Context of double skin facade structures | 第73-82页 |
| ·Review of the evolution trend of double skin facades | 第74-78页 |
| ·Major functions of multi-skin facades | 第78-79页 |
| ·Optimization theory of double skin facades | 第79-82页 |
| ·Thermal theories and studies | 第82-84页 |
| ·Direct radiation | 第82页 |
| ·Conduction and Convection | 第82-84页 |
| ·Air infiltration | 第84页 |
| ·Principles governing wind,thermal currents and natural ventilation | 第84-85页 |
| ·Air flow and velocity due to natural draft | 第85-87页 |
| ·Summary of chapter 2 | 第87-89页 |
| 3 Research Methodology | 第89-93页 |
| ·Data collection | 第89页 |
| ·Input system | 第89-90页 |
| ·Output system | 第90页 |
| ·Problem identification | 第90页 |
| ·Evolution of Strategies for enhancing performance | 第90-93页 |
| 4 Study on Traditional facade structure of typical HSCW and other significant conventional facade systems | 第93-113页 |
| ·Characteristics of the typical facade structure in the case of Wuhan city | 第93-97页 |
| ·Solid facades | 第94-95页 |
| ·Glazed facades | 第95页 |
| ·Box window facades | 第95页 |
| ·Strip windows | 第95页 |
| ·Balcony facades | 第95-97页 |
| ·Relevance of study to the present research | 第97页 |
| ·Classification in the thermal environment design of buildings | 第97-99页 |
| ·Previous work;Case study on energy efficiency research in HSCW zones | 第99-106页 |
| ·Analysis of the typical HSCW residential building facde system,using Wnhan as a case | 第106-110页 |
| ·Summer analysis | 第107-109页 |
| ·Winter analysis | 第109-110页 |
| ·Impressions from traditional living environments | 第110-111页 |
| ·Summary of chapter 4 | 第111-113页 |
| 5 Study on Conventional Double Skin Facade system | 第113-156页 |
| ·Concepts and characteristics of Conventional DSF | 第114-119页 |
| ·Ventilated double window | 第114-115页 |
| ·Facade partitioned per storey with adjacent modules | 第115-116页 |
| ·Corridor-type ventilated DSF | 第116页 |
| ·The Shaft-box ventilated double facade | 第116-117页 |
| ·Multi-storey ventilated double skin facade | 第117-118页 |
| ·Multi-storey louver,naturally ventilated double facade | 第118-119页 |
| ·Relevance of study | 第119-120页 |
| ·Study on Glazed Double skin facade & performance investigation | 第120-124页 |
| ·Underlying principles in Glazed double skin system | 第121-122页 |
| ·Classification of design principles | 第122-124页 |
| ·Case study on previous research on glazed double skin facades | 第124-142页 |
| ·University of Michigan Medical School's BiomedicalScience Research Building | 第124-136页 |
| ·HSCW building box experiment | 第136-142页 |
| ·Structural and material Analysis | 第142-147页 |
| ·Material analysis | 第142-145页 |
| ·Selection of Glass | 第145-147页 |
| ·Structural analysis | 第147页 |
| ·Optimization design and performance enhancement | 第147-149页 |
| ·Building physics | 第148页 |
| ·Energy conservation and thermal comfort | 第148-149页 |
| ·Glazed double skin facade experiment in HSCW environment | 第149-155页 |
| ·Experiment setup scheme | 第149-151页 |
| ·Summer analysis | 第151-152页 |
| ·Winter analysis | 第152页 |
| ·Simulation analysis using PHOENICS-VR tool | 第152-155页 |
| ·Summary and Results/findings of chapter 5 | 第155-156页 |
| 6 The Climate-active facade design and experiment | 第156-205页 |
| ·Review of the factors that influence efficiency of a facade system | 第156-161页 |
| ·Concept of the double-skin climate-adaptive facade | 第161-172页 |
| ·Configuration of the facade | 第162-166页 |
| ·Material composition | 第166-171页 |
| ·Structure of the Sandwich-Polyurethane insulation board | 第171-172页 |
| ·Aim of the Climate active facade experiment | 第172页 |
| ·Experiment setup scheme | 第172-175页 |
| ·Accessories and parameters for the experiment | 第175-179页 |
| ·Accessories | 第175-176页 |
| ·Assessment Parameters | 第176-179页 |
| ·Thermal Experimental measurements | 第179-184页 |
| ·Summer measurements | 第179-183页 |
| ·Winter measurements | 第183-184页 |
| ·Summary of results | 第184-185页 |
| ·Simulation of results using PHOENICS-VR | 第185-193页 |
| ·Aim of the simulation tests | 第186页 |
| ·Ventilated cavity simulation | 第186-193页 |
| ·Comparative analysis | 第193-200页 |
| ·Comparing the results of the experiment model to typical Wuhan HSCW buildings | 第193-194页 |
| ·Comparing results with glazed double-skin facade | 第194-200页 |
| ·Economic evaluation of the double-skin climate-adaptive facade | 第200-205页 |
| ·Procedure for economic analysis | 第200-201页 |
| ·Concept of covering the costs of alternatives in entirety | 第201-202页 |
| ·Cost determinants for Climate active double skin facades for HSCW regions | 第202-204页 |
| ·Features of an economical climate active facade | 第204-205页 |
| 7 Architectural context | 第205-222页 |
| ·Design factors | 第205-208页 |
| ·Use of seasonal solar path information | 第206-207页 |
| ·Effective orientation of indoor spaces | 第207-208页 |
| ·Classification and definition of typology | 第208-213页 |
| ·Typology based on type of ventilation | 第209-211页 |
| ·Typology based on partitioning of the facade | 第211-212页 |
| ·Typology based on ventilation mode of the cavity | 第212-213页 |
| ·Fenestration design | 第213-217页 |
| ·Combining the CAF and glazed DSF principles in Residential building design | 第214-217页 |
| ·Optimization for ventilation and insulation system | 第217-221页 |
| ·Air flow | 第217-220页 |
| ·Air tightness | 第220-221页 |
| ·Concluding remarks | 第221-222页 |
| Bibliography | 第222-230页 |
| Books | 第222-224页 |
| Journals | 第224-226页 |
| Conference proceedings | 第226-227页 |
| Ph.D.Dissertation | 第227-228页 |
| Web sites | 第228-230页 |
| Curriculum Vitae(CV) and Academic Publications | 第230-233页 |
| Appendix | 第233-258页 |
| Symbols | 第233页 |
| Vocabulary and Definitions | 第233-257页 |
| Research work Table | 第257-258页 |
