Papers

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    Renewing Two Saarinen Icons

    • Paper by David N. Fixler, FAIA, Gary Tondorf-Dick, AIA, LEED AP, Katherine S. Wissink, PE, Matthew B. Bronski, PE,
    Kresge Auditorium and the MIT Chapel, designed by Eero Saarinen and built in 1955, are both world renowned works of architecture and powerful symbols…

  • Facade Maintenance Access

    • Paper by Carmen Chun, MEng, P.Eng., LEED® AP, Associate Leonard Pianalto MSc (Civil), P.Eng., LEED® AP, FEC, Managing Principal
    Facades are an architectural feature and an integral part of the building enclosure. To ensure that the facades continue their function, they must be…
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    Put Your Sweater On!

    • Paper by Eric Haas, AIA, LEED AP BD+C, Adjunct Associate Professor
    During the particularly cold first months of 1977 President Jimmy Carter, in what some call “The Sweater Speech,” famously noted how much energy…

  • 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

  • Challenges of Tall Iconic Building Retrofit

    • Paper by Hamid Vossoughi, P.E., P. Eng.

    Change happens, for better or for worse, to all living and physical matter. In order to thrive and achieve longevity, we constantly need to adapt to

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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…
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    Façade Systems and Embodied Carbon

    • Paper by Paulina Szpiech, Associate - Facade Engineering Valerie Leon-Green, Facade Engineer Shivanie Rambaran, Graduate Energy Analyst
    Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is a methodology used to quantify the impact of building construction supply chains on the environment in terms of…
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    Facade Resilience Evaluation Framework

    • Paper by Fabio Favoino, Department of energy Adèle Chalumeau, Facade engineer Audrey Aquaronne, Facade engineer
    Resiliency is the capacity of a building (or building component in the case of the facade) to support building functionalities during extreme events…

  • A Burning Question Revisited

    • Paper by Stéphane Pierre Hoffman

    In recent decades the use of unitized glazing systems has become increasingly common especially for high-rise construction. The opaque panels in

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    Autonomous or Appropriate

    • Paper by Katrin Terstegen, Assistant Professor
    This paper examines two profoundly different design approaches: one, herein called ‘autonomous’, where the building’s design is governed by internal…

  • Terracotta 1912 to 2018

    • Paper by Carol Loewenson, FAIA, LEED AP · Stephen Dietz, AIA, LEED AP

    Center Three is a 100-year-old, one million square-foot building in Long Island City, New York that was constructed over the course of one year. It

  • Saving Face

    • Paper by Xsusha CarlyAnn Flandro, FAIC, APT-RP

    In 1871, a fourth level Architecture course was offered in New York City that instructed on topics such as heating, ventilation and circulation of

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    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…

  • Saving Small Towns

    • Paper by Leah Kemp,
    Small towns are dying, and it is not just because of their dwindling economies. The physical fabric of our communities is literally crumbling. A…
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    Targeted Enclosure Consulting

    • Paper by Karl Jones,
    As building enclosure consulting services evolve and mature in markets, the scopes of service that are provided and sought, can become more…

  • The First Triple Certified Facade

    • Paper by Stephen Katz, AIA, LEED AP BD+C

    Johnson Controls (JCI), a leading provider of intelligent building technology solicited the design of a 35,000sm headquarters for its Asia-Pacific

  • Dynamic Shading Device

    • Paper by Gabriel de Bem, Professor Eduardo Krüger, Professor Alexandre Augusto Alberto Moreira de Abreu, Professor
    Responsive shading systems can dynamically improve indoor environmental conditions based on outdoor climate variations. Among the technologies,…
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    Go Big or Go Home!

    • Paper by Patrick Loughran, FAIA, PE, LEED AP, Richard Barrett, AIA, Senior Associate
    This paper will focus on the design and detailing of large-format glass enclosures intended to maximize transparency using state-of-the-art materials…