TY  - Type of reference 
TI  - Green facades and participatory design: towards thermal optimization through co-design 
AU  - Bochra Abesselm
 
AU  - Ons Ben Attia
 
AU  - Taoufik Ben Taib 
AB  - This research project proposes an innovative approach to the co-design of green façades as drivers of urban sustainability and socio-ecological regeneration. Rooted in a participatory design framework, it explores how residents, in collaboration with designers and public stakeholders, can take an active role in transforming their living environments through vegetated interfaces. Here, the façade is reimagined as a thermodynamic system with multiple functions: climate regulation, air quality improvement, and the strengthening of the connection between city and nature. The project draws on the principles of regenerative urbanity — ecological restoration, positive life cycle, social inclusion, urban resilience, and co-evolution — to embed interventions within a systemic logic. It relies on transdisciplinary methodological tools (participatory workshops, sensory mapping, interactive devices) that foster the collective appropriation of greenery and the activation of a sustainable sense of togetherness. At the intersection of urban ecology, biophilic design, and spatial justice, this work redefines the façade not merely as an architectural element, but as a living, social, and environmental interface. 
DO  - 10.21494/ISTE.OP.2026.1417 
JF  - Entropy: Thermodynamics – Energy – Environment – Economy  
KW  - Co-design, green façade, participatory design, regenerative urbanity, thermodynamic system, urban ecology, spatial justice, biophilic design, civic ownership, environmental interface. MOTS-CLÉS. Co-conception, Façade végétalisée, Design participatif, Urbanité régénérative, Dispositif thermodynamique, Écologie urbaine, Justice spatiale, Design biophilique, Appropriation citoyenne,  
L1  - https://www.openscience.fr/IMG/pdf/iste_entropie25v6nspe_2.pdf 
LA  - en 
PB  - ISTE OpenScience 
DA  - 2026/02/18 
SN  - 2634-1476 
TT  - Façades végétales et design participatif : vers une optimisation thermique à travers la co-conception 
UR  - https://www.openscience.fr/Green-facades-and-participatory-design-towards-thermal-optimization-through-co 
IS  - Special issue 
VL  - 6 
ER  -