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  • Active and Energy Autonomous Window featured image

    Active and Energy Autonomous Window

    <p>Reducing GHG emissions related to energy use in buildings is a prominent obligation given their impact in terms of climate change. In this light,…

  • Blurred Edges

    <p>Sealed indoor environments have created artificial, homogeneous ecosystems that sever ties between humans and the natural world. This paper…

  • Carbon-Neutral High-Rise Envelope Nexus

    <p>The pathway to carbon-neutrality, as urged during the COP 21 in Paris, and the repeated goal for resilient buildings and urban habitats, winds…

  • Adaptive Facades

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

  • The Versatile Envelope Garden featured image

    The Versatile Envelope Garden

    <p>Facades play an integral role in defining the experience of modern life. As rising populations gravitate from rural to urban communities, they…

  • Structuring Skin featured image

    Structuring Skin

    <p>Curtain wall is the prevailing type of enclosure on modern buildings because of its economy, its independence from structure that allows…

  • Heat-actuated Auxetic Facades featured image

    Heat-actuated Auxetic Facades

    <p>Highly transformable materials can be used as adaptive exterior shading systems by leveraging the relationship between external stimuli (heat) and…

  • Terra Cotta Skins featured image

    Terra Cotta Skins

    <p>This paper will address the potential of ornamental architectural terracotta surfaces to mitigate the effects of climate fluctuations that will…

  • Facade Resilience Evaluation Framework featured image

    Facade Resilience Evaluation Framework

    <p>Resiliency is the capacity of a building (or building component in the case of the facade) to support building functionalities during extreme…

  • Saving Face featured image

    Saving Face

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

  • Fit for the Future

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

  • HydroSKIN featured image

    HydroSKIN

    <p>Building envelopes cover a considerable part of the urban exterior surfaces, and to therefore have a significant leverage effect on the climate…

  • Terracotta 1912 to 2018 featured image

    Terracotta 1912 to 2018

    <p>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.…

  • Form Follows Well-Being featured image

    Form Follows Well-Being

    <p>Recent planning recognizes a growing demand for buildings that provide higher levels of occupant well-being. Often, well-being in buildings is…

  • Adaptable Glazing Shields featured image

    Adaptable Glazing Shields

    <p>Today, about 40% of all buildings in the U.S. still have single-pane windows, and ~70% of the existing building stock is estimated to suffer from…

  • Kinetic Solar Envelope featured image

    Kinetic Solar Envelope

    <p>Kinetic responsive systems are gaining attention in architectural applications, to reduce the building’s energy consumption and environmental…

  • Recent Adaptive Textile Façade Systems

    <p><em>Adaptive facade systems are a promising approach to achieve a dynamic response to varying weather conditions and user demands. The…

  • Execution Ways

    Business Insider has described San Francisco’s Chase Arena as setting “a new standard for a sports arena in the US”, and “the state-of-the-art arena