jismart2024063: Dynamic Green Walls in Historic Buildings: A Review and Challenges

Abstract

With the advancement of green building technologies, Green Wall have become widely utilized in modern architectural design. This paper reviews the use of green walls in historic buildings, focusing on their impact on the preservation of historic facades, the effectiveness and mechanisms of green walls, and the current research on dynamic building envelopes. While previous studies have explored these elements separately, this review uniquely emphasizes the integration of dynamic building envelope technologies with green walls to address preservation challenges specific to historic structures. The review highlights that green walls significantly enhance urban greening, reduce building energy consumption, improve aesthetic appeal, and mitigate noise pollution. However, they may cause physical damage to historic facades, and current studies lack targeted solutions for this issue. Advances in dynamic building envelopes offer new insights for addressing these challenges by enabling adaptable surface movements that respond to environmental changes, thus optimizing building performance. Despite these advancements, further exploration is needed on integrating dynamic envelopes with green walls to improve the preservation of historic buildings while enhancing overall building performance and environmental adaptability. This paper suggests future research directions, including how to effectively combine green walls with dynamic envelope technologies to better protect historic structures and optimize their performance, thereby contributing a novel perspective to the existing body of knowledge.