FTI Forward: Student forum on facades carbon 2025
Our upcoming FTI Student Forum explores the intersection of Facades, Carbon, and Circularity. In a fast paced spitfire format, architecture students present their recent work and research.
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FTI forward: Student forum on facades carbon
Our upcoming FTI Student Forum explores the intersection of Facades, Carbon, and Circularity. In a fast paced spitfire format, architecture students present their recent work and research.
Forum by Facade Tectonics Institute, Inc.
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3D thermal modelling of complex facades
Today’s building enclosures face ever greater demands regarding their thermal performance. In cold climates, the required total U-value of the façade… -
Wind-Borne Debris Impacts on Façades
Climate change effects are causing an increase in extreme wind events’ frequency and severity, worldwide. Regions that previously were not prone to
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Plant-based Architecture and Living Facades: The Intersection of Biology and the Building Skin
A question for architects and building industry: Can our cities be part of the solution to the challenges facing humanity, or are they intrinsically and inevitably a big part of the problem? To move beyond the latter demands nothing less than a fundamental shift in the way we think about buildings.
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Bridging the Gap Between the Facade Industry and Diversity
This newsletter is different from what you usually expect from SKINS. We are talking about human connection, communication, language, and broadening our understanding of how we move through the world and evolve with the new information we receive. How do these aspects relate to the AECO Industry?
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Pioneering the Structural Terracotta Mullion Façade
Architects today must explore alternative enclosure materials to meet evolving energy codes and embodied carbon regulations. Terra cotta has been… -
Adaptive Reuse of Industrial Heritage Façades
With the developments in production, industrial facilities lost their function and were abandoned over time. The most frequent and often the most… -
Talking Trees & Timber: In Buildings, Facades and Urban Habitat
Okay, okay; I have a tree-thing going on. This issue was supposed to be about green facades, but it morphed on me as I laid it out. But here’s the thing: if you don’t have a tree-thing going on, you should. I read The Overstory (graciously reviewed here by our Val Block) followed by a viewing of...
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Let Thin Glass in the Facade Move
Facades play an important role in the control of energy flow and energy consumption in buildings as they represent the interface between the outdoor
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Evaluating Additive Manufacturing for Metallic Facade Components
The state-of-the-art of Additive Manufacturing (AM), popularly known as 3D printing, shows its prospective future in the
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Emulating Nature's Structured Randomness in Facade Design
The wonder of nature is the abundance of unique forms she creates based on a few simple physical principles or laws. No two snowflakes are alike.… -
Design Considerations and the Complex Facade
The design of complex, high-performance facades involves balancing attention towards principles of material selection, thermal and moisture… -
Collaborative Methodology for Fastracking Challenging Facade Concepts
The goal is to explore the role and methodology employed between the architect and engineer as they look to resolve the opposing demands of design… -
Predictive Modeling in an Automated Building Facade
Computer simulations of an automated dynamic facade in a passively heated and cooled building by using predictive modeling of short-term future… -
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Investigating Heat Development in Shadow Box Façade Systems
The prevalence of fully glazed facades in modern office buildings has been steadily increasing, primarily driven by architects' focus on aesthetic
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Lightweight Veneer in High-rise Unitized Facades
Manufactured veneer panels such as glass fiber reinforced concrete (GFRC), ultra high performance concrete (UHPC), sintered stone, and terracotta are…