The Double Skin Facade
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…
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Novel Techniques for Facade Optimization
Complex freeform architectural enclosures are becoming increasingly popular and easy to model and design with the help of modern computational tools.
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Carbon-Dioxide-Inhaling Facade
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
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Architectural Shape Optimization
This paper explores the architectural shape optimization of typical housing typologies: slab and high-rise residential buildings to reduce primary… -
North Capitol Building Case Study
The Utah State Capitol North Building, currently under construction, features 80,000 SF of classically designed cubic granite detailing, including
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Geometric Patterns as Architectural Forms
Facade design is a key component of architectural expression, and increasingly a key design consideration due to growing importance of factors like:
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Contextual Envelopes
Aesthetic and technical capabilities of facade design have become seemingly endless as building technologies progress. While the capacity to address
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Nested Density
Projecting imagery onto building facades is not only becoming a marketing necessity for successful urban spectacles but is also altering social urban… -
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… -
Terra Cotta Skins
This paper will address the potential of ornamental architectural terracotta surfaces to mitigate the effects of climate fluctuations that will
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Facade Games
This paper provides an overview of a course focusing on the façade as taught to architecture students over a twenty-year period. The need for this… -
Efficiency-Driven Facade Optimization
As overall project schedules continue to contract and rising costs impact our design decisions, the importance of the design-assist phase for facades… -
Put Your Sweater On!
During the particularly cold first months of 1977 President Jimmy Carter, in what some call “The Sweater Speech,” famously noted how much energy… -
Hydrophobic Stainless Steel Surfaces
There is no doubting the longevity of stainless steel building facades. The Chrysler Building and numerous buildings that followed have stood the… -
Vertical Louvered Solar Control
Exterior shading devices, when typically used, are horizontal planes that are most effective at the south face of buildings in the northern… -
Autonomous or Appropriate
This paper examines two profoundly different design approaches: one, herein called ‘autonomous’, where the building’s design is governed by internal… -
The Butterfly
Providing a unique and integral cladding/envelope solution suited for high-rise buildings has been an inherent challenge for this building typology
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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… -
Shaping Skin
The conventional modern facade is essentially flat, which creates the tendency toward visual monotony and problems for modulating daylight—both on
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Behind the Surface
The architectural facade, like clothing for a building's form, serves as both an aesthetic expression and a protective veil, concealing the inner