Abstract
This chapter starts with an introduction about key themes and important factors in modern architecture. It then gives some general informations about smart materials, which can be divided into the categories of property-changing smart materials, energy-generating and exchanging smart materials, and matter-exchanging smart materials. Then some examples are given of existing smart textiles for architectural applications, which include light-emitting metal mesh, self-cleaning membranes, self-healing textiles, shape memory interior textiles and innovative actuators, made through the use of smart textiles. The chapter ends with future trends for exterior textiles, actuators and interior textiles.
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