All-Glass Bearing Facades
The Green Village at the TU Delft is a living lab for sustainable innovations. The Co Creation Centre (CCC) will be their new meeting center (13.5 x
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Façade Systems and Embodied Carbon
<p>Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is a methodology used to quantify the impact of building construction supply chains on the environment in terms of…
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Sculptural Facades
In the vein of mass production, manufacturers leverage repeatable parts and modular construction in an effort to maximize quality control while
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The Monash Woodside Building
Today’s environmental challenges highlight the necessity of a holistic approach to façade design and construction, key to achieve the ambitious 2030
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Digital Enablement for Manufacturing
Architectural design freedom achieved on high-end projects currently costs over $1,000/sq. Ft. Building materials have long been relegated to plane
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Modeling Megapanels
<p>Large format, steel-stud framed “megapanel” facades with rainscreen cladding create uniquely complicated requirements for digital documentation…
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The Craft of Building Enclosures
This paper will provide case studies of two high-performance building envelopes in the San Francisco Bay Area where the fabrication of bespoke façade
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Two Sides to Sustainability & High-performance
High performance can be defined as “a building that integrates and optimizes all major high-performance building attributes, including energy
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Integrated Energy Analysis
<p>Energy codes across the country are progressively getting stricter and increasing the threshold for a baseline building’s energy performance.…
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Unitized Curtain Wall
Unitized curtain wall has become ubiquitous in contemporary facade design and construction due to advantages associated with speed of erection, lower
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Towards A Data Driven Fabrication Process
Today's evolving digital tools allow designers to be more creative in designing new forms and geometries. Adapting similar tools to the fabrication
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Working With Big Data
Big data is having a noticeable impact on enclosure engineering design. With continuing advancements that liberate the geometrical form and the
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Differentiated Building Skin
<p>The Los Angeles Stadium’s doubly curved skin is composed of over 35,000 unique triangular panels covering 296,502 square feet of surface area. The…
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DC Water Headquarters Case Study
Facades must be responsive to a myriad of qualities and influences ranging from urban impact and aesthetic character to numerous performance
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Localized Rigidification of PCM Envelopes
This is an experimental and computational exploration of structural systems that transform between states of rigidity and flexibility. The goal is to
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Design Digital Recipes
Precision in digital workflow is necessary to deliver facade projects where there is a high design aesthetic or structural performance requirement.
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Novel Techniques for Facade Optimization
Complex freeform architectural enclosures are becoming increasingly popular and easy to model and design with the help of modern computational tools.
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Performance Based Generative Facade Workflow for Large Scale Projects
<p>Over the last two decades, in what has been coined “The Digital Turn”, the introduction of parametric design software has afforded increased…
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EUI of Building Clusters
<p>Large master planned developments such as Battery Park City in Manhattan, Mission Bay in San Francisco, and Playa Vista in Los Angeles were built…
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Algorithmic Patterns for Facade Design
<p>Recently, building envelopes have been exhibiting complex shapes and patterns, a trend supported by current digital technologies. Likewise, the…