Review and prospects of research on composite ice shell building and its building thermal environment

 The composite ice shell building is an emerging form of architecture with great regional characteristics developed on common ice architecture, and is considered an important carrier of the ice industry. It has great potential for development and is of great significance to boost the local economy. Due to the lag of related research and specification, the composite ice shell building is now in a disorderly development stage where engineering practice is ahead of theoretical research, and there is a lack of scientific guidance in building thermal environment creation. This paper reviews the research on the composite ice shell building at home and abroad from four aspects, including building development, building materials, building thermal environment and building thermal comfort, points out the scientific problems that need to be solved urgently for its development based on summary of the existing research, and makes an outlook on the future research direction.