Papers

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    Iconic Buildings

    • Paper by Xavier Ferrés Padró, PhD Architect, Universidad de Navarra (ETSAUN) Paula Martín Goñi, PhD Architect, Universidad Politècnica de Catalunya (ETSAB)

    The iconic building principal incentive is to be visually attractive or stand out, for this purpose three main features must be accomplished: have a …

  • Go Big or Go Home! featured image

    Go Big or Go Home!

    • Paper by Patrick Loughran, FAIA, PE, LEED AP, Richard Barrett, AIA, Senior Associate

    This paper will focus on the design and detailing of large-format glass enclosures intended to maximize transparency using state-of-the-art materials…

  • Printed Facades? featured image

    Printed Facades?

    • Paper by Philipp L. Rosendahl, Institute of Structural Mechanics and Design, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Chris Borg Costanzi, Institute of Structural Mechanics and Design, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Philipp A. Chhadeh, Institute of Structural Mechanics and Design, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Robert Akerboom, Institute of Structural Mechanics and Design, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Benedikt Waldschmitt, Institute for Steel Construction and Materials Mechanics, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Alexander Wolf, Institute of Structural Mechanics and Design, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Technical University of Darmstadt Marvin Kehl, Institute of Structural Mechanics and Design, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Ulrich Knaack, Institute of Structural Mechanics and Design, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

    While additive manufacturing (AM) offers unprecedented freedom of design and a remarkable potential for material efficiency and lightweight structure…

  • Facade Resilience Evaluation Framework

    • Paper by Fabio Favoino · Adèle Chalumeau · Audrey Aquaronne

    Resiliency is the capacity of a building (or building component in the case of the facade) to support building functionalities during extreme events …

  • The Carapace Pavilion

    • Paper by Douglas Noble, PhD, FAIA · Karen M. Kensek, DPACSA

    The Carapace Pavilion is a university-based, design-build, full-scale custom prototype for a possible replacement of the standard precast concrete to…

  • Novel Thermal Break Solution

    • Paper by Yuzhen Steve Zhou

    Thermal-break-blanket technology is a novel and high-performance thermal break solution for aluminum curtain walls. The thermal-break-blanket is inst…

  • Inside the Box

    • Paper by Michael Plewacki

    The trend towards modular and unitized facades continues to grow in popularity due largely in part to the efficiencies gained in terms of cost and ti…

  • The Myth of Simplicity

    • Paper by Gerry Lang

    There were good why reasons early US Modernism first evolved in California– wide open sites with no constraints (physical or zoning), and effectively…

  • Bringing an Icon Into the Future: Willis Tower

    • Paper by Stephen Katz

    Few buildings are as iconic as Willis Tower. Generations of Chicagoans have a collective memory of this building playing a role in their entire live…

  • Case Study: Kao Ho Hospital Development, Kaohsiung, Taiwan featured image

    Case Study: Kao Ho Hospital Development, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

    • Paper by Jerry Ma, jerry.t.ma@dow.com Jason JS Lin, Project Manager

    U-shaped annealed profiled glass, or U channel glass is used in both the interior and exterior glass façade for decades, as it has long and durable s…

  • Adaptive Reuse of Industrial Heritage Façades

    • Paper by Bahar Basarir, PhD · Hatice Yasemin Cakir

    With the developments in production, industrial facilities lost their function and were abandoned over time. The most frequent and often the most sus…

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    Lithic Revival

    • Paper by Alex Terzich,

    The recently completed Capital One Hall performing arts center located in the Washington DC metro area is defined by a pleated exterior of glass and …

  • CR∆CKİNG THЄ C󉘳DЄ // DYN∆MİC L∆B F∆C∆DЄS

    • Paper by Amanda King, AIA, LEED AP BD&C, CPHC · Dayita Kumar, LEED GA · Daniel Nauman, AIA, NCARB, LEED AP, CPHC

    The real estate market continues to demand “all glass” buildings often to the detriment of human comfort and thermal performance. For an office build…

  • Façade Systems and Embodied Carbon

    • Paper by Paulina Szpiech · Valerie Leon-Green · Shivanie Rambaran

    Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is a methodology used to quantify the impact of building construction supply chains on the environment in terms of measur…

  • Facade Maintenance Access

    • Paper by Carmen Chun, MEng, P.Eng., LEED® AP, Associate Leonard Pianalto MSc (Civil), P.Eng., LEED® AP, FEC, Managing Principal

    Facades are an architectural feature and an integral part of the building enclosure. To ensure that the facades continue their function, they must be…

  • A Burning Question Revisited featured image

    A Burning Question Revisited

    • Paper by Stéphane Pierre Hoffman, shofffman@morrisonhershfield.com

    In recent decades the use of unitized glazing systems has become increasingly common especially for high-rise construction. The opaque panels in unit…

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    Elliptical Ways

    • Paper by Gustav Fagerström, Lia Tramontini, Kelly Burkhart, Jianing Song, Sanjeev Tankha,

    Construction projects almost invariably encounter a critical stage at the moment of handover between the designing and the executing party. At this p…

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    Unitized Curtain Wall

    • Paper by Brian Masuda, Kathleen Kulpa, Margaret Tyrpa,

    Unitized curtain wall has become ubiquitous in contemporary facade design and construction due to advantages associated with speed of erection, lower…

  • Verifying Thermal Performance

    • Paper by Matthew Herman · Mark Walsh

    Architects specify curtain wall thermal performance criteria and usually identify simple modeling software, like THERM, to perform thermal analysis t…