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Hydrophobic Stainless Steel Surfaces
- Paper by Fred Deuschle, Jim Halliday, Mike McGuire,
There is no doubting the longevity of stainless steel building facades. The Chrysler Building and numerous buildings that followed have stood the tes…

March 14, 2018
Evaluating Additive Manufacturing for Metallic Facade Components
- Paper by Natasa Mrazovic, M. Arch. Eng., M.C.E. · Martin Fischer
The state-of-the-art of Additive Manufacturing (AM), popularly known as 3D printing, shows its prospective future in the Architecture-Engineering-Con…

March 14, 2018
Curved Forming Panel Facades
- Paper by Roger Schroeder
The performative and visual aspects of curved forming/bending thin “formable” planar materials is explored. Early tests for deflection indicate that …

March 14, 2018
Contextual Envelopes
- Paper by Zoltan Neville,
Aesthetic and technical capabilities of facade design have become seemingly endless as building technologies progress. While the capacity to address …

March 14, 2018
United States Olympic and Paralympic Museum
- Paper by Ilja Aljoskin PMP, Project Manager Lee Pepin, Director of Virtual Design & Construction Neil Meredith RA, Modeler
Advanced fabrication processes combined with parametric 3D modeling give designers and architects the freedom and versatility to push the boundaries …

March 15, 2020
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…

March 13, 2020
Saving Face
- Paper by Xsusha CarlyAnn Flandro, FAIC, APT-RP, Architectural Conservator
In 1871, a fourth level Architecture course was offered in New York City that instructed on topics such as heating, ventilation and circulation of wa…

March 20, 2020

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