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Determining the Optimal Opening for Multi Skin Facade with External Ventilation
- Paper by Peter Simmonds,
The envelope of the Harbin Bank Building in Beijing has a Multi-Skin Facade where the outer cavity is naturally ventilated. During the design the…
February 26, 2020
Put Your Sweater On!
- Paper by Eric Haas, AIA, LEED AP BD+C, Adjunct Associate Professor
During the particularly cold first months of 1977 President Jimmy Carter, in what some call “The Sweater Speech,” famously noted how much energy…
January 22, 2020
Heat-actuated Auxetic Facades
- Paper by Amira Abdel-Rahman · Elnaz Tafrihi
Highly transformable materials can be used as adaptive exterior shading systems by leveraging the relationship between external stimuli (heat) and

March 14, 2018
Data-Driven Shading Systems
- Paper by Simon Schleicher, Luis Santos, Luisa Caldas,
Analyzing the energy performance of complex building envelopes, determining the need for sun protection, and assessing the effectiveness of shading…
March 14, 2018