Adaptive facades promise to negotiate the competing demands placed on a building envelope, but their performance depends on how they are controlled.

This thesis develops a simulation framework for a south-facing photovoltaic louvre facade capable of retilting hourly across 63 angle positions.
A coupled Radiance–EnergyPlus pipeline evaluates five control strategies hour by hour across a full year, each defining a different trade-off between energy harvest, daylight, glare and thermal comfort.
The framework links optical and thermal physics through hourly construction-swapping, and is portable across climates, a basis for designing performance-driven adaptive facades.

The entire master's thesis will be available in the Norwegian Research Information Repository. A link will be provided once it is ready.