2005 年 70 巻 592 号 p. 97-104
Building facade plays an important role for not only creating urban landscape, but also has an effect on environmental impact through energy consumption. Remarkable development in the area of facade engineering has taken place in Europe for the past two decades, resulting in elegant appearances and reducing environmental impacts; however, the application in Japan requires improvements corresponding to the different climates. Also in these areas, seismic retrofit by attaching additional frames with seismic energy dissipation devices on facades is demanding. In this paper, for satisfying all of these demands, integrated concept of facade engineering is proposed, and required functional factors are analyzed and discussed through projects over the past 12 years.