Papers

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  • Multi-domain Assessment of a Kinetic Facade featured image

    Multi-domain Assessment of a Kinetic Facade

    • Paper by Kunyo Luo, Master of Building Science Karen Kensek, LEED AP BD+C, DPACSA, Professor of Practice Marc Schiler, FASES, Professor

    An assessment workflow was created to simulate and evaluate the performance of a kinetic facade in an interior space. It includes parameters of energ…

  • Two Sides to Sustainability & High-performance

    • Paper by Brian Fraumeni · Julia Ragragio Ruiz, LEED AP BD+C · Adam Moqrane

    High performance can be defined as “a building that integrates and optimizes all major high-performance building attributes, including energy efficie…

  • Solar Reflection Mitigation

    • Paper by Kais Al-Rawi, AIA

    Glass by nature is a reflective material, and it is well-known and documented that issues of glare can occur due to solar reflection. This phenomenon…

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    VR For Daylight

    • Paper by Kelly Burkhart, Enclosure Technical Designer Caris Frazier-Baker, Technical Artist for Virtual Reality Sanjeev Tankha, AIA, LEED AP BD+C, Director of Enclosure Engineering

    Daylighting is often an important component of architectural design and heavily influenced by a building’s facade and enclosure systems. Unlike many …

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    Shaping Skin

    • Paper by John Neary AIA LEED AP NCARB, Sr. Associate

    The conventional modern facade is essentially flat, which creates the tendency toward visual monotony and problems for modulating daylight—both on th…

  • Balancing Visual Comfort and Energy Efficiency featured image

    Balancing Visual Comfort and Energy Efficiency

    • Paper by Berardo Matalucci PhD, Director, Environmental Design Edward Palka AIA LEED AP BD+C, Designer Jennifer Siqueira LEED AP, Associate Jenny Lin, Associate Coles Jennings PE, BEMP, LEED AP BD+C, Sr. Energy and Sustainability Engineer Alex Chapin, Energy Engineer II Sameer Kumar AIA, Director, Enclosure Design Nadine Bergen AIA LEED AP, Project Director Christopher Sharples AIA, Principal

    With increasing interest in wellness and human-centric design in workplaces, the design of building enclosures is predicated on optimizing competing …

  • Undulated Glass Self-shading featured image

    Undulated Glass Self-shading

    • Paper by Nebojsa Jakica, Assistant professor in Facade Design and Engineering Mikkel K. Kragh, Professor, Head of Civil and Architectural Unit

    The research is structured around complex optical effects of undulated glass and coatings that exhibit high reflectivity, especially at higher incide…

  • Designing with Photovoltaics featured image

    Designing with Photovoltaics

    • Paper by Wayne Walker, Associate, Project Architect Julia Ragragio Ruiz, LEED AP BD+C, Sustainability Strategist Sam Crawford, Intern

    Photovoltaics (PV) have been utilized in buildings for decades, especially in Europe where legislative support has largely driven the market. With ne…

  • Invert Auto-Shading featured image

    Invert Auto-Shading

    • Paper by Jae Yong Suk, Assistant Professor Doris Sung, Associate Professor

    Allowing sufficient amount of natural light while avoiding excessive sunlight penetration is often hard to achieve with static facade systems due to …

  • Hydroformed Shading featured image

    Hydroformed Shading

    • Paper by Michelle Siu-Ching Lee, Architect Robert Matthew Noblett, Partner Roman Schieber, Associate Director

    New approaches to lightweight metal forming have the potential to advance architectural fabrication, particularly in the design and engineering of hi…

  • Managing Solar Reflections from the Building Envelope

    • Paper by Ryan Danks, B.A.Sc., P.Eng. · Joel Good, M.A.Sc., P.Eng.

    Understanding how a building will reflect sunlight has gone from a rare requirement to a key consideration during the planning permission process in …

  • Heat-actuated Auxetic Facades featured image

    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 re…

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    Adaptive Facades

    • Paper by Walter Haase, Werner Sobek, Enrica Oliva, Michele Andaloro,

    Facade engineering aims at appropriately balancing the demands imposed by the context and the capabilities inherent to the materials, the geometries …