A comprehensive review of solar facades. Transparent and translucent solar facades

In the first paper of a series of two publications entitled “A comprehensive review of solar facades. Opaque solar facades” an exhaustive review of scientific studies carried out during the last decade on opaque solar facades was proposed. The paper dealt with facades that absorb and reflect the incident solar radiation but cannot transfer directly solar heat gain into the building. This article offers a complementary survey of studies conducted during the same period of time on transparent and translucent solar facades, highlighting the categories of ventilated facades and semi-transparent building-integrated photovoltaic facades.