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  • Xilinx Case Study featured image

    Xilinx Case Study

    • Paper by Michael Martinez, LEED AP, Stet Sanborn, AIA, LEED AP, CPHC,
    The transformation of a dark and inhumane 1970s tilt-up concrete office building into a high performance, light-filled modern workplace was enabled…
  • Two Sides to Sustainability & High-performance featured image

    Two Sides to Sustainability & High-performance

    • Paper by Brian Fraumeni, Associate, Project Designer Julia Ragragio Ruiz, LEED AP BD+C, Sustainability Strategist Adam Moqrane, Intern
    High performance can be defined as “a building that integrates and optimizes all major high-performance building attributes, including energy…

  • Data-Driven Shading Systems

    • Paper by Simon Schleicher · Luis Santos · Luisa Caldas

    Analyzing the energy performance of complex building envelopes, determining the need for sun protection, and assessing the effectiveness of shading

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    Case Study: Kao Ho Hospital Development, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

    • Paper by Jerry Ma, jerry.t.ma@dow.com Jason JS Lin, Project Manager
    U-shaped annealed profiled glass, or U channel glass is used in both the interior and exterior glass façade for decades, as it has long and durable…

  • Adaptive Facades

    • Paper by Walter Haase · Werner Sobek · Enrica Oliva · Michele Andaloro

    Facade engineering aims at appropriately balancing the demands imposed by the context and the capabilities inherent to the materials, the geometries

  • 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

  • Pioneering the Structural Terracotta Mullion Façade featured image

    Pioneering the Structural Terracotta Mullion Façade

    • Paper by Victoria Ereskina, Façade Design Professional John Neary, Sr. Façade Specialist
    Architects today must explore alternative enclosure materials to meet evolving energy codes and embodied carbon regulations. Terra cotta has been…

  • Thermal Stress Analysis in Glass

    • Paper by Michael Elstner · Michaela Poláková · Steffen Schäfer

    The use of glass in windows and curtain walls in residential as well as in commercial buildings needs to be designed very carefully. In addition to

  • Mixed Reality in Facade Education

    • Paper by Phillip Anzalone AIA · Amber Bartosh, RA LEED AP BD+C

    Developments in performative computational analysis, mass customization, and complex form manipulation revolutionized building envelope design

  • Facade Wind Loading

    • Paper by Timothy Brewer, CEng, MICE · George Kantrales, Ph.D. · Eric Sammarco, Ph.D., P.E. · Carrie Davis, P.E., LEED Green Assoc.

    Wind induced pressure is a major design consideration for building facades. However, the effects of facade geometry and urban terrain on wind loading

  • Honing the Craft

    • Paper by Patrick Delorey

    Finishing of custom-fabricated architectural façade components represents one of the most significant components to their cost. Manually driven

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    When Facades Kill

    • Paper by Terri Meyer Boake,
    The tragic fire of June 14, 2017 at the Grenfell Tower in London, England has brought to a very public global forum issues related to the impact of…

  • Architectural Ceramic Assemblies

    • Paper by Omar Khan · Bill Pottle · Mitchell Bring

    This paper documents a six year academia/industry collaboration between researchers at the Department of Architecture, University at Buffalo (SUNY)

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    Curved Forming Panel Facades

    • Paper by Roger Schroeder,
    The performative and visual aspects of curved forming/bending thin “formable” planar materials is explored. Early tests for deflection indicate that…