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Bringing an Icon Into the Future: Willis Tower
- Paper by Stephen Katz
Few buildings are as iconic as Willis Tower. Generations of Chicagoans have a collective memory of this building playing a role in their entire lives…

October 11, 2022
Green Façade/Roofs Design Tool
- Paper by Abolfazl Ganji Kheybari · Morteza Kasravi
Climate change and related thermal issues, draw attention to the impact of green facades and roofs on energy savings and thermal comfort. Besides, by…

October 11, 2022
HydroSKIN
- Paper by Christina Eisenbarth, M.Sc., Research Associate Walter Haase, Dr.-Ing., Managing Director of CRC1244, Head of Working Groups Lucio Blandini, Prof. Dr.-Ing. M.Arch., Professor and Head of the Institute Werner Sobek, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dr.-Ing. E.h. Dr. h.c., Senior Professor
Building envelopes cover a considerable part of the urban exterior surfaces, and to therefore have a significant leverage effect on the climate resil…

October 11, 2022
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…

October 11, 2022
Artwork Becomes Facadework: A Collaboration with Olafur Eliasson
- Paper by Stephen Katz, Technical Director
What is the difference between artwork and facadework? How can artwork be integrated into building façades? What are the possibilities when a façade …

October 11, 2022
Developments in Gridshell Design
- Paper by Cristobal Correa P.E., Principal Craig Schwitter P.E., Principal
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 …

March 22, 2020
A Study on the Impact of Hospital Facade Opening Focusing Outdoor Exposure on Waiting Room Experience
- Paper by Iftekhar Rahman, Associate Professor
The paper will try to study the impact of window opening on waiting room experience of patients in an eye hospital along with their attendants. As di…

March 21, 2020
Build Test Iterate Repeat
- Paper by Elizabeth L McCormick, RA, CPHC, LEED AP
The global increase in atmospheric temperature rise combined with the rapid growth of previously underdeveloped climate zones presents a growing need…

March 19, 2020
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…

March 17, 2020
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…

March 15, 2020
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 …

March 15, 2020
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 …

January 22, 2020
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…

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
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…

March 14, 2018