Buildings wield substantial influence on the environment, accounting for a hefty 30% of global energy usage and a consequential 19% of greenhouse gas emissions. To combat this looming crisis, the Net-Zero Energy Building (NZEB) concept emerges as a transformative paradigm shift in the world of construction.
In the midst of this environmental renaissance, a digital revolution sweeps across manufacturing, presenting a tantalizing prospect of reducing embodied CO2 and enhancing thermal control. Yet, a considerable chasm separates the cutting-edge digital technologies from structures crafted from sustainable materials. Bridging this gap could boost digital fabrication to a mass production system, but issues include the complexity of multi-scale modeling, reliability uncertainties, technical limitations in 3D printing, and poor solution versatility.
PANTAREI project addresses all these challenges by implementing a revolutionary adaptive intelligent computational irreversible thermodynamics paradigm to design and assess novel bio-waste-derived meta-structures for the reduction of embodied CO2 in buildings. PANTAREI aim is to extend the capabilities of current computational tools for material design, by developing adaptive solutions based on the intertwining of virtual physics of failure and non-equilibrium thermodynamics principles for the biowaste multi-scale meta-structure design and tailored realization through the entire structure life-cycle with a human-centered perspective.