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Invert Auto-Shading
- Paper by Jae Yong Suk, Assistant Professor Doris Sung, Associate Professor
Allowing sufficient amount of natural light while avoiding excessive sunlight penetration is often hard to achieve with static facade systems due to…
March 15, 2020
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…
March 14, 2018
ETFE Membrane Envelope Strategies
- Paper by Audrey L Worden, ISSF · Kihong R. Ku, DDes · Alexander G. Worden, RA NCARB
Airflow within the cavity of double-skin facades is a key component of adaptive building envelopes which change thermophysical properties to meet

October 11, 2022
Thermal Performance of Closed Cavity Facades
- Paper by Andrea Zani, Project Engineer Carmelo Guido Galante, Senior Project Engineer Lisa Rammig, Senior Associate
Closed cavity facades (CCF), a configuration of Double Skin Facade (DSF), consists of a double-glazed unit on the inner layer and single glazing on…
January 22, 2020
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

March 14, 2018
OpenFacadeControl
- Paper by Peter Grant, Technology Researcher II Tzu-Ching Su, Deputy Manager Luis Fernandes, Jordan Shackelford, Technology Researcher III Anand Prakash, Senior Scientific Engineering Associate Stephen Czarnecki, Software Developer Pei-Yu Yu, Deputy Division Director Feng-Yi Lin, Engineer
Automated facades are, for the most part, still considered as separate from other building systems throughout the design, installation,…
September 2, 2024
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,

September 02, 2024
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

March 21, 2020