Innovative Façades for a Sustainable Architecture
Facades play a relevant role in the search for a more sustainable approach to modern architecture. The amount of embodied and operational energy can …
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The Tectonics of Flimsiness
Architecture has traditionally celebrated the joining of two building components or materials. Joinery serves as a key site for architectural express…
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Smart Colored Window Technology
Traditional architecture can be a valuable source of inspiration for designers. Sustainable design concepts in traditional architecture have been exp…
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Growing Myceliated Facades
Today's sustainability in architecture takes into consideration the complete life cycle of buildings and their components, from resource harvesting a…
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Saving Face
In 1871, a fourth level Architecture course was offered in New York City that instructed on topics such as heating, ventilation and circulation of wa…
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Digital Medium, Tangible Message
The reaches of architecture are inherently linked to the efficacy of communication, and as emerging technology broadens the conceptual horizon of the…
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Rethinking Building Skins
Building skins play a pivotal role in architecture. Other than the aesthetical and architectural aspects, facades are key to the climate performance,…
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Design of Double Curved Self Spanning Horizontal Laminated Glass
There is a desire in architecture to design and achieve transparent canopies and glazed rooves that are free from the visual clutter and the structur…
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Systems Thinking
This paper surveys facade design education in accredited Bachelor and Master of Architecture (B.Arch and M.Arch) programs in the United States. A rev…
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Facade Games
This paper provides an overview of a course focusing on the façade as taught to architecture students over a twenty-year period. The need for this s…
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Architectural Ceramic Assemblies
This paper documents a six year academia/industry collaboration between researchers at the Department of Architecture, University at Buffalo (SUNY) a…
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Teaching Facades
As facades become more sophisticated and complex, more detail-intensive and performance-critical, it's vital that architecture students develop a dee…
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Transformation as Movement
In 1888 the art historian Heinrich Wölfflin proposed the notion that the primary characteristic of baroque architecture is the illusion of movement. …
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ACT Facade
Due to material and technological advancement during the last century, transparency has become a prominent trend in contemporary architecture. Howeve…
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Shade and Spectacle
This paper will look at the different facades of the Elysian Fields apartment building designed by Warren Techentin Architecture [WTARCH] and complet…
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Multifunctional Building Material Glass - A Colourful Bunch Of Requirements
Glass as a building material plays a very important role in modern architecture, determines our visual landscape, and fulfills practical functions in…
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Towards Net Zero Enclosures
As architects and designers we understand the urgency of addressing the building sector’s role in the ongoing environmental crisis. Architecture2030 …
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Renewing Two Saarinen Icons
Kresge Auditorium and the MIT Chapel, designed by Eero Saarinen and built in 1955, are both world renowned works of architecture and powerful symbols…
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Thermal Comfort Assessment of Multi-Zone Electrochromic Window
Access to natural daylight and connection to the outdoor environment is one of the key elements of contemporary architecture. This design concept is …
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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 Architecture-Engineering-Con…