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  • Academic Wood Tower Choreography

    • Paper by John Peterson OAA FRAIC LEED AP BD+C · Leland Dadson OAA CPHD

    With an ever-growing interest in mid- and high-rise mass timber construction, this paper highlights the insights and lessons learned across global

  • 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

  • Green Wall Rainscreen

    • Paper by Stephan Wurster · Till Jackenkroll

    Green Wall applications are growing in popularity around the world. Often thought of as a decorative element they provide much more than aesthetic

  • 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

  • Facade Technology in Educational Methodology

    • Paper by Roger Schroeder · Joseph A. Ebert

    With facades becoming increasingly more complex, and performance a key objective, expertise becomes an important component of successful design

  • Teaching Facades

    • Paper by Alex Terzich

    As facades become more sophisticated and complex, more detail-intensive and performance-critical, it's vital that architecture students develop a

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    Window in Wall: Back to the Future

    • Paper by Thomas Auer, Ata Chokhachian,
    In order to get to a carbon neutral building stock – which is e.g. required by the EU Carbon roadmap by 2050 – our efforts need to be smart and…

  • Parametric Facade Design

    • Paper by Patricia E. Camporeale · María del Pilar Mercader Moyano

    Parametric Design has become an invaluable tool for complex tasks like designing energy efficient buildings when joined to performance-based

  • Go Big or Go Home!

    • Paper by Patrick Loughran, FAIA, PE, LEED AP · Richard Barrett, AIA

    This paper will focus on the design and detailing of large-format glass enclosures intended to maximize transparency using state-of-the-art materials

  • Fit for the Future

    • Paper by Julia Koerner-Al-Rawi

    Wearables protect us from climatic conditions, they provide privacy, comfort and they also reflect our style and personality. Building facades in the

  • 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

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    ICSA 2022

    • Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark

    The International Conference on Structures and Architecture, organised by the International Association of Structures & Architecture, is the world’s leading and largest global conference bridging the gap between Structures and Architecture. For the first time ICSA is to be held in Aalborg, Denmark.

    Industry Event by International Association of Structures and Architecture

  • Preserving a Historic Facade

    • Paper by Maria Mohammed, S.E. · John Fidler, RIBA, Intl Assoc AIA, FRICS, FSA, FRSA, FIIC, FAPT

    Environmental and socio-economic benefits of sustainable preservation have become apparent most recently in the restoration of the historic former

  • Deconstructing the Window

    • Paper by Helen Sanders · Jörg Lenz · Petra Sommer

    Over the years, the industry has relied heavily on the increasing performance of low-e coatings to drive window U-factors (thermal transmittance)

  • Renewing Historic Facades

    • Paper by Christine Reynolds, PE · Hans Thummel, AIA, LEED AP BD+C

    As the first phase of a $4 billion dollar, 180-acre, 60 building government preservation project in Washington DC, this case study reviews the

  • Facade Design Beyond Buildings

    • Paper by Michele Andaloro · Enrica Oliva · Lucio Blandini

    At the core of facade design is the concept of interdisciplinarity, a bridge between concept and materialization apt to relay a built form

  • Reinforced Polymer Concrete Screen Walls

    • Paper by Brock DeSmit · Jessica Hong · Becher Eli Neme

    Apertures is a six-story, commercial building in the Roma Norte neighborhood of Mexico City–a neighborhood severely impacted by the 1985 and 2017

  • The Tectonics of Flimsiness

    • Paper by Timothy Brown AIA NCARB CSI

    Architecture has traditionally celebrated the joining of two building components or materials. Joinery serves as a key site for architectural