BUILDING façades are like skins. Through them, many exchanges occur between the outside and the inside. By reacting in real-time to variations in the weather (sun, cold, wind and rain), motorised and automated sun-shading make these exchanges ‘smarter’, more energy- efficient, better looking and keep them in sync with the natural environment.
The three main benefits of the Management of Dynamic Facades (MDF) Somfy are the following: (1) Visual comfort is a major concern in office layouts – and increasingly regulated by law. MDF Somfy makes lighting conditions more comfortable and healthy, thus leading to a boost in productivity; (2) MDF Somfy controls heat exchanges between the façade and the outside world in real-time to improve living and work-place comfort in all kinds of weather; (3) Somfy motors and automated sun-shading systems actively contribute to energy savings. Automated façade with controlled heat exchanges contribute significantly, and to an increasingly greater extent to lower power consumption of heating, lighting and air-conditioning systems, and to lower investments in HVAC equipment capacities because there are fewer temperature peaks.
Basically, MDF results in innovative, automated sun-shading and window control solutions which include the animeo IB+ package ideal for medium-size office and commercial buildings and new ‘io’ concept houses.