Exploring the Feasibility of Utilizing Palm Tree Texture for a Self-Cleaning Architectural Design of Building Envelopes

Abstract

The passion of self-cleaning potential on palm tree species contributing to building envelope design maintenance through biomimetic architecture is the notion of this exploration. The greediness of property investors that are more concerned on building design to strive the sustainability rather than the maintenance strategic on their building. However, the uniqueness on building shapes and patterns of this envelope confronts with main complications on surface maintenance in associates with pollution such as air-bone, water-bone and grease-born pollution that also trap in air moisture. Furthermore, the selection of material is the important fragment in building envelope cleanliness to design the sustainable maintenance. In conjunction, the palm tree foreseen as self-cleaning building envelope that has the potential to develop the resilience maintenance based on its characteristics. Therefore, the exploration on surface and texture of selected specimen of palm tree is main contributor to this research in finding the self-cleaning characteristics on building envelope materials. The selective specimen will be monitored under Light-microscope and Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) based on environmental experiment. The outcome of this exploration will discover the nature mechanism through its nature course and develop the self-cleaning conceptual on building envelop materials to overcome the problems in every building envelope design.