Intelligent Facades in Buildings Facades of local Office Buildings - Case Study

In order to meet the functional performance and requirements on the environmental, ecological, social and aesthetical aspects, it became a necessity to develop another options of building that would be more efficient in the provision of those requirements, so a new generation have appeared called "Smart Buildings" or "Intelligent Buildings" with their sophisticated parts and various details, one of those essential parts is the "Intelligent Facade" for it's being the essential and primary defensive line for the building against the environmental and climatic variations.This research focused on presenting the most clearly and comprehensive perception of the intelligent facades, in a manner that serves the ability of the designer to apply them in his designs or while developing an existing facades in local (Iraqi) office buildings.To achieve such goal, it has been a necessity to adopt a descriptive and analytical Method for the previous knowledge and take a sequential researching steps, the first step was to build a comprehensive theoretical framework by defining the intelligent facade. Down to abstracting three main vocabularies of the theoretical framework represented by: integrated intelligent facade design, intelligent facade techniques, and effective response.The next research steps focused on applying the vocabularies of the theoretical framework on the elected local office buildings that have been adopted the matter of intelligent facades in one of their forms, and then analyze/discuss the results of the applicable study, to be able to draw the final conclusions, and by this the research presented a determined recommendations.