Autonomous or Appropriate
This paper examines two profoundly different design approaches: one, herein called ‘autonomous’, where the building’s design is governed by internal …
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Academic Wood Tower Choreography
With an ever-growing interest in mid- and high-rise mass timber construction, this paper highlights the insights and lessons learned across global ma…
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Green Wall Rainscreen
Green Wall applications are growing in popularity around the world. Often thought of as a decorative element they provide much more than aesthetic ap…
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The Tectonics of Flimsiness
Architecture has traditionally celebrated the joining of two building components or materials. Joinery serves as a key site for architectural express…
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Slipping through the Cracks
We construct building enclosures to keep the elements out, but sometimes air and water infiltrate the building envelope, causing several problems for…
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From Design to Experiment
Flat cable-net facades are form-active structures which provide maximum transparency by means of point fixing components, tensioned cables, and struc…
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Managing Constraints
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…
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Facade Mock-ups
Curtain walls and window walls are typically specified to meet a variety of different performance and testing criteria, some of which can be quite st…
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Corrugated-geometry Copper and Glass Facade
The subject of this case study is the design and construction of a custom corrugated-geometry facade featuring pre-patinated copper and glass for an …
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Steel As A Curtain Wall Framing Material
This paper will explore steel forming methods other than cold drawn or hot rolled processes, and how they allow steel to be utilized as the primary f…
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Air Spaces Changed Everything
This abstract proposes that architectural facade design over the last 60 years has convulsed in light of two disruptions: air spaces which create ven…
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Carbon Lean Facades
With net zero and carbon neutral mandates on the near horizon, New York City has pushed the green building envelope by leveraging incentive-based pro…
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Infinite Panel System
Today, building facades are expected to do much more than merely provide shelter, which is driving the need for higher performing envelope solutions.…
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Predictive Modeling in an Automated Building Facade
Computer simulations of an automated dynamic facade in a passively heated and cooled building by using predictive modeling of short-term future weath…
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Seismic Design of Jumbo Glass Structures
The design of structural glass systems continues to evolve with the parallel development of new manufacturing technology. Improvements in the manufac…
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Managing Solar Reflections from the Building Envelope
Understanding how a building will reflect sunlight has gone from a rare requirement to a key consideration during the planning permission process in …
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End-of-Life Challenges in Facade Design
In recent decades, there has been increased attention to reduce the operational energy performance of buildings. Stringent legislation on building en…
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Anisotropy and Haze Measurement with Online Scanners
Architects and facade planners require that anisotropies or haze, optical phenomena disturbing the clear appearance of a glass, have to be avoided co…
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Adaptable Glazing Shields
Today, about 40% of all buildings in the U.S. still have single-pane windows, and ~70% of the existing building stock is estimated to suffer from und…
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Challenges of Tall Iconic Building Retrofit
Change happens, for better or for worse, to all living and physical matter. In order to thrive and achieve longevity, we constantly need to adapt to …