Papers

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  • Bringing an Icon Into the Future: Willis Tower featured image

    Bringing an Icon Into the Future: Willis Tower

    • Paper by Stephen Katz, Technical Director

    Few buildings are as iconic as Willis Tower. Generations of Chicagoans have a collective memory of this building playing a role in their entire live…

  • Green Façade/Roofs Design Tool featured image

    Green Façade/Roofs Design Tool

    • Paper by Abolfazl Ganji Kheybari, Researcher and Building Physics Expert Morteza Kasravi, Computer Scientist

    Climate change and related thermal issues, draw attention to the impact of green facades and roofs on energy savings and thermal comfort. Besides, by…

  • HydroSKIN

    • Paper by Christina Eisenbarth, M.Sc. · Walter Haase, Dr.-Ing. · Lucio Blandini, Prof. Dr.-Ing. M.Arch. · Werner Sobek, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dr.-Ing. E.h. Dr. h.c.

    Building envelopes cover a considerable part of the urban exterior surfaces, and to therefore have a significant leverage effect on the climate resil…

  • City Development and Cladding Design featured image

    City Development and Cladding Design

    • Paper by Hadil Abdallah, Building Sciences Consultant Girma Bitsuamlak, Professor and Canada Research Chair in Wind Engineering at the University of Western Ontario Hamid Vossoughi, PE, P. ENG., Senior Principal

    High-rise buildings in growing cities could become more vulnerable to variations in wind flow due to the continuous changes in urban topology. The ae…

  • Developments in Gridshell Design

    • Paper by Cristobal Correa P.E. · Craig Schwitter P.E.

    In 1959 Heinz Isler challenged the world of concrete shell design by proposing a series of shapes for shells that were very different from what most …

  • Build Test Iterate Repeat featured image

    Build Test Iterate Repeat

    • Paper by Elizabeth L McCormick, RA, CPHC, LEED AP, Assistant Professor

    The global increase in atmospheric temperature rise combined with the rapid growth of previously underdeveloped climate zones presents a growing need…

  • Reinforced Polymer Concrete Screen Walls featured image

    Reinforced Polymer Concrete Screen Walls

    • Paper by Brock DeSmit, Partner Jessica Hong, Lead Designer Becher Eli Neme, Principal, Founder

    Apertures is a six-story, commercial building in the Roma Norte neighborhood of Mexico City–a neighborhood severely impacted by the 1985 and 2017 ear…

  • Nested Density featured image

    Nested Density

    • Paper by Wendy Cox, Architect, Associate Professor

    Projecting imagery onto building facades is not only becoming a marketing necessity for successful urban spectacles but is also altering social urban…

  • Carbon-Dioxide-Inhaling Facade featured image

    Carbon-Dioxide-Inhaling Facade

    • Paper by Prof. Dr. Timo Schmidt, Professor for facade technology and design Carmen Herrmann, Student Dr. Michael Lakatos, Professor Daniel Zabicki, Scientific Employee Prof. Dr.-Ing. Michael Wahl, Professor Kai Scherer, PhD Student

    3.5 billion years ago, cyanobacteria created the foundation for life on Earth by producing the oxygen basis for our atmosphere. Should we once again …

  • The Versatile Envelope Garden featured image

    The Versatile Envelope Garden

    • Paper by Nathaniel Barlam, Architectural Design Lead Yunyao Lin, Assistant Designer Ben Silverman, CTO + Cofounder at Edenworks

    Facades play an integral role in defining the experience of modern life. As rising populations gravitate from rural to urban communities, they bring …

  • The Double Skin Facade featured image

    The Double Skin Facade

    • Paper by Lee A. Fithian, AIA, AICP, NCARB, LEED AP,

    The largest source of air pollution in North America is the atmospheric boundary layer of a city caused by its urban canyons with pollutants produced…

  • 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 …

  • EUI of Building Clusters featured image

    EUI of Building Clusters

    • Paper by Srinivas M. Rao, AIA, AICP, LEED AP,

    Large master planned developments such as Battery Park City in Manhattan, Mission Bay in San Francisco, and Playa Vista in Los Angeles were built ove…