Papers

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  • Design Digital Recipes

    • Paper by Trevor Stephen Lewis, PhD, PE · Lukasz Blonski · Jessica Chen, PE

    Precision in digital workflow is necessary to deliver facade projects where there is a high design aesthetic or structural performance requirement.

  • DC Water Headquarters Case Study

    • Paper by Sven Shockey · Leland Curtis · David Fersh

    Facades must be responsive to a myriad of qualities and influences ranging from urban impact and aesthetic character to numerous performance

  • Algorithmic Patterns for Facade Design

    • Paper by Inês Caetano · António Leitão

    Recently, building envelopes have been exhibiting complex shapes and patterns, a trend supported by current digital technologies. Likewise, the

  • 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

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    Execution Ways

    • Paper by Viswanath Urala, P.E., Senior Engineer Prakash R. Desai, P.E., S.E., Senior Structural Engineer
    Business Insider has described San Francisco’s Chase Arena as setting “a new standard for a sports arena in the US”, and “the state-of-the-art arena…

  • Optimized Adaptive Re-Use

    • Paper by Matthew Parker · John Souleles

    Contemporary building practice represents a disconnect between traditional manufacturing techniques, that favor straight runs and orthogonal

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    Managing Constraints

    • Paper by Vincent IP, LEED AP BD+C, vip@nbbj.com
    On a commercial high-rise tower project located in Hong Kong, the design team was challenged to make a facade that would beneficial to tenants with a…

  • Building by Numbers

    • Paper by Trevor Stephen Lewis PhD | PE | FRSA

    This paper outlines the successful implementation of digital workflows between the design team composed of Architect, Structural Engineer and Project

  • Performance-based Facade Framework

    • Paper by Mahsa Minaei · Ajla Aksamija

    Buildings have a considerable impact on the environment, and it is crucial to consider environmental and energy performance in building design.

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    Architectural Shape Optimization

    • Paper by Patricia Edith Camporeale, PhD, Posdoc researcher
    This paper explores the architectural shape optimization of typical housing typologies: slab and high-rise residential buildings to reduce primary…

  • Multi-domain Assessment of a Kinetic Facade

    • Paper by Kunyo Luo · Karen Kensek, LEED AP BD+C, DPACSA · Marc Schiler, FASES

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

  • Facade with Innovation

    • Paper by YU Hui · JIN Shihui

    Shanshui City and Star Bund Center can be considered as representative projects of RFR Shanghai recently Both provide creative solutions for complex

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    Transfer Topologies

    • Paper by Nada Tarkhan, Project Manager
    This research looks at the relationship of material and geometric distribution to set a methodology for integrating structural and thermal design.…