Each week leading up to the 2020 World Congress, we will announce one of the four winning authors, selected from the 118 papers to be presented at the virtual event, and releasing an interview with them on our SKINS Podcast.
High performance can be defined as “a building that integrates and optimizes all major high-performance building attributes, including energy efficie…
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This paper will look at the different facades of the Elysian Fields apartment building designed by Warren Techentin Architecture [WTARCH] and complet…
Green Wall applications are growing in popularity around the world. Often thought of as a decorative element they provide much more than aesthetic ap…
Buildings account for over 40% of global emissions (GlobalABC, 2018). Growing populations and higher standards of living are increasing pressure on t…
The conventional modern facade is essentially flat, which creates the tendency toward visual monotony and problems for modulating daylight—both on th…
Urban noise pollution is a major environmental health problem. International organizations are making efforts to prevent health damage due to high le…
California is set to be drier and more drought prone with climate change. Wildfire and the subsequent loss of life and housing is a huge challenge. C…
Quickly exceeding new facade service life expectations for tall buildings imposed by increasing environmental, economic, and social pressures have cr…
Photovoltaics (PV) have been utilized in buildings for decades, especially in Europe where legislative support has largely driven the market. With ne…
The project represents a successful integration of a glass facade with the primary structure of the building. The choice of the building material is …
Today, building facades are expected to do much more than merely provide shelter, which is driving the need for higher performing envelope solutions.…
New approaches to lightweight metal forming have the potential to advance architectural fabrication, particularly in the design and engineering of hi…
This paper explores the architectural shape optimization of typical housing typologies: slab and high-rise residential buildings to reduce primary en…
Johnson Controls (JCI), a leading provider of intelligent building technology solicited the design of a 35,000sm headquarters for its Asia-Pacific Re…
In recent decades, there has been increased attention to reduce the operational energy performance of buildings. Stringent legislation on building en…
Center Three is a 100-year-old, one million square-foot building in Long Island City, New York that was constructed over the course of one year. It w…
Driven by an increasing demand for high thermal and acoustic performance, transparency, and low maintenance costs, a number of facade innovations hav…
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