THE ROLE OF RESPONSIVE FACADES AS A HIGH-TECH IN ZERO CARBON BUILDINGS

: The current century is characterized by a great acceleration in all aspects of life, which had a tangible impact on the progress of humanity in general and the acceleration of science and technology in particular. It allows providing solutions to the problems that the building sector suffers from, such as carbon emissions during the life cycle of buildings, especially during the operation phase, as well as the waste of energy consumption, as it is an influencing factor in the issuance of emissions indirectly, while not positively exploiting the surrounding environment resources. This coincided with high technology and its techniques that gave great flexibility to the architectural thought and allowed new horizons that were not preceded before, such as technologies that provide response and adaptation for buildings and their ability to simulate the surrounding nature as if it were a biological organism that can adapt and interact with variables. This prompted the research towards studying and scrutinizing whether it was possible, through these responsive technical data as one of the high-tech outputs, to achieve reducing carbon emissions from the operating stage of buildings, as a goal towards achieving zero carbon emissions in what is known as zero-carbon buildings, through the study and analysis of buildings The administrative headquarters of the Swiss Insurance Company and to identify the most important technologies and responsive systems used and the extent of their achievement to reduce the rate of energy consumption and thus carbon emissions. The research concludes that some of the responsive technologies that can be applied and benefited from as one of the technical strategies used in zero-carbon buildings.