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  • Blast Performance

    • Paper by Jon Kimberlain · Jie Feng · Will Wholey · Dan Aggromito · Valérie Hayez

    Designing for blast performance for glazing units can be very complex. The test methods for evaluating performance include subjecting units to actual

  • Insulating Glass Unit Gas Loss

    • Paper by Mark K. Schmidt, M.Eng., S.E. · Stephen M. Morse, PhD, P.E.

    Concerns over time-dependent argon permeation through the perimeter edge seals of insulating glass units (IGUs) led the authors to utilize two

  • Glass Spandrels and Shadow Boxes

    • Paper by John Jackson

    Glass spandrels are a common design strategy utilized to opacify floor levels in building facades. These opaque glass assemblies are integrated into

  • Orbit Tower

    • Paper by Enrica Oliva · Michele Andaloro · Werner Sobek

    While most of high-rise buildings feature a core surrounded by a spatial frame defining the volume, one could envision a column-free plan where the

  • Inside the Box

    • Paper by Michael Plewacki

    The trend towards modular and unitized facades continues to grow in popularity due largely in part to the efficiencies gained in terms of cost and

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    Orientation Specific Solar Control

    • Paper by Clifton Fordham, Assistant Professor
    During the postwar era, and before the universal adoption of air-conditioning in the United States, leading architects participated in the design of…

  • A Compact, Unitized Double Skin Facade

    • Paper by Alex Cox, LEED AP · James Hock, LEED AP BD+C · Laura Ziegler · Karin Lamberts

    Driven by an increasing demand for high thermal and acoustic performance, transparency, and low maintenance costs, a number of facade innovations

  • Reglaze or Replace?

    • Paper by Angel Ayón, AIA, LEED AP · Laura Boynton, AIA, LEED AP

    Originally known as The Master Building, 310 Riverside Drive in Manhattan's Upper West Side is a 28-story tower completed in 1929 as an apartment

  • Reconfigurable Terracotta Facade

    • Paper by Jin Young Song · Dan Vrana · Jonathan Hopp · Shawn Murrey · Jiatao Wu · Jongmin Shim

    The traditional building facade as a permanent construction does not actively respond to the differing needs from varying weather conditions.

  • Sustainable Façades

    • Paper by Dr. Thomas Henriksen · Jean-Marc Moulin Norsk · Dr. Jacopo Montali

    Transposing innovation from government funded research to commercially viable solutions becomes ever more important when combined with the urgent

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    The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, LA

    • Paper by Roman Scheiber, Associate Director ppa. Florian Meier,
    Renzo Piano Building Workshop designed a 290,000 sf museum celebrating the artistry and technology of film, becoming the world’s first museum and…

  • The Craft of Building Enclosures

    • Paper by Christopher Payne, AIA, LEED AP

    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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    Kinetic Shading Systems

    • Paper by Alireza Jahanara, Negar Kalantar,
    This study focuses on experiments in kinetics and architectural skins. More extensively, it introduces a solution for environmental design issues and…
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    Thermal Analysis of Complex Glazing

    • Paper by Adrian Turcato, Chris Stutzki, Erik Olsen,
    The use of bidirectional scattering distribution function incorporated in a transient systems simulation program, allows engineers to accurately…