Papers

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  • End-of-Life Challenges in Facade Design featured image

    End-of-Life Challenges in Facade Design

    • Paper by Rebecca Hartwell, PhD Candidate Mauro Overend, Professor of Structural Design & Mechanics
    In recent decades, there has been increased attention to reduce the operational energy performance of buildings. Stringent legislation on building…

  • Envelope For Service

    • Paper by Annalisa Andaloro · Miren Juaristi · Stefano Avesani · Giulia Santoro · Matteo Orlandi

    Envelope-for-Service (E4S) is a novel business model developed with the aim of converting the building façade from a traditionally traded good to a

  • Shaping Skin

    • Paper by John Neary AIA LEED AP NCARB

    The conventional modern facade is essentially flat, which creates the tendency toward visual monotony and problems for modulating daylight—both on

  • Transformation as Movement

    • Paper by Vytenis Gureckas

    In 1888 the art historian Heinrich Wölfflin proposed the notion that the primary characteristic of baroque architecture is the illusion of movement.

  • Spandrel Thermal Simulation Techniques

    • Paper by Ivan Lee · Edlyn Garcia La Torre · Shahima Rahmatipour

    Glazed wall systems, such as curtain walls and window walls, are one of the most commonly used façade systems in modern buildings in North America.

  • The Performative Double-Skin

    • Paper by Jeffrey Abramson, AIA, LEED AP · Alejandra Menchaca, PhD, LEED AP, WELL AP

    Double-Skin Facades (DSF) are well-known to boost the thermal performance of a façade: they can provide extra insulation in the wintertime and lower

  • Designing with Photovoltaics

    • Paper by Wayne Walker · Julia Ragragio Ruiz, LEED AP BD+C · Sam Crawford

    Photovoltaics (PV) have been utilized in buildings for decades, especially in Europe where legislative support has largely driven the market. With

  • Dynamic Shading Device

    • Paper by Gabriel de Bem · Eduardo Krüger · Alexandre Augusto Alberto Moreira de Abreu

    Responsive shading systems can dynamically improve indoor environmental conditions based on outdoor climate variations. Among the technologies,

  • Low-Carbon Cladding and Shading Design featured image

    Low-Carbon Cladding and Shading Design

    • Paper by Prateek Jain, LEED, Senior Environmental Designer Isabelle Hens, LEED GA, WELL AP, EIT,
    In the last few years, the design community has embraced the challenge of reducing embodied carbon in buildings. Several tools are now available for…

  • 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

  • Separating Direct From Diffuse featured image

    Separating Direct From Diffuse

    • Paper by Nick Novelli, PhD, Robert Gordon, Igor Varfolomeev,
    An Enclosure-Integrated, Daylighting, Tracking Solar Collector (EIDTSC) has been developed for market which integrates into a building’s fenestration…

  • Building by Numbers

    • Paper by Trevor Stephen Lewis PhD | PE | FRSA

    This paper outlines the successful implementation of digital workflows between the design team composed of Architect, Structural Engineer and Project

  • Coupling Facade and Structure

    • Paper by Trevor Stephen Lewis, PhD, PE · Jessica Chen, PE

    Traditional approach for engineering the facade is building an isolated analysis model. However, it inhibits a dynamic design process where

  • Case Study: Renovation of Fountain Place

    • Paper by Alfonso Lopez P.E. · David Dunham P.E · Diarmuid Kelleher P.E., S.E.

    Fountain Place is a project that exemplifies the latest technology and applications in building skin design and jumbo structural glass applications,

  • DC Water Headquarters Case Study

    • Paper by Sven Shockey · Leland Curtis · David Fersh

    Facades must be responsive to a myriad of qualities and influences ranging from urban impact and aesthetic character to numerous performance

  • Managing Constraints

    • Paper by Vincent IP, LEED AP BD+C

    On a commercial high-rise tower project located in Hong Kong, the design team was challenged to make a facade that would beneficial to tenants with a