Papers

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  • Duplex Stainless Steel Cladding featured image

    Duplex Stainless Steel Cladding

    • Paper by Fred Deuschle, Director of Engineering & Quality Jim Halliday, Director of Business Development

    It was a challenging design problem: supply a sustainable material for roofing, soffit and fascia panels that would perform in close proximity to the…

  • Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

    • Paper by Roman Schieber · Thorsten Helbig

    Steven Holl Architects designed two new buildings in the Museum District in Houston, Texas. Knippers Helbig is the facade consultant of both projects…

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    Contextual Envelopes

    • Paper by Zoltan Neville,

    Aesthetic and technical capabilities of facade design have become seemingly endless as building technologies progress. While the capacity to address …

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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 …

  • 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…

  • Printed Facades?

    • Paper by Philipp L. Rosendahl · Chris Borg Costanzi · Philipp A. Chhadeh · Robert Akerboom · Benedikt Waldschmitt · Alexander Wolf · Marvin Kehl · Ulrich Knaack

    While additive manufacturing (AM) offers unprecedented freedom of design and a remarkable potential for material efficiency and lightweight structure…

  • Air Spaces Changed Everything

    • Paper by Gerry Lang, M.Arch., (Penn, 2008), B. Arch (hons., Toronto, 1978) OAA, AIA,TSA

    This abstract proposes that architectural facade design over the last 60 years has convulsed in light of two disruptions: air spaces which create ven…

  • Glass Spandrels and Shadow Boxes

    • Paper by John Jackson

    Glass spandrels are a common design strategy utilized to opacify floor levels in building facades. These opaque glass assemblies are integrated into …

  • The Carapace Pavilion

    • Paper by Douglas Noble, PhD, FAIA · Karen M. Kensek, DPACSA

    The Carapace Pavilion is a university-based, design-build, full-scale custom prototype for a possible replacement of the standard precast concrete to…

  • 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…

  • The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, LA featured image

    The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, LA

    • Paper by Roman Scheiber, Associate Director ppa. Florian Meier,

    Renzo Piano Building Workshop designed a 290,000 sf museum celebrating the artistry and technology of film, becoming the world’s first museum and eve…

  • Performance of Compact, Closed Cavity, Double-skin Curtain Wall featured image

    Performance of Compact, Closed Cavity, Double-skin Curtain Wall

    • Paper by Julien Schwartz, M. Eng., Building Energy Consultant Katie Hay, P. Eng., Building Science Consultant Stéphane Hoffman, M. Arch., M. Eng, PE, Vice President, Building Science Analytics

    A proposed design for a compact, closed cavity, double-skin curtain wall system in the Marine climate of the West Coast raises questions of potential…

  • Ginza Six

    • Paper by Katsuhiko Muramoto · Junko Owada

    Tokyo’s prestigious Ginza District, is home to innovative architectural design. One of the most recent examples is Ginza Six (GSIX), the largest comm…

  • VR For Daylight

    • Paper by Kelly Burkhart · Caris Frazier-Baker · Sanjeev Tankha, AIA, LEED AP BD+C

    Daylighting is often an important component of architectural design and heavily influenced by a building’s facade and enclosure systems. Unlike many …

  • Go Big or Go Home! featured image

    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…

  • Towards A Data Driven Fabrication Process featured image

    Towards A Data Driven Fabrication Process

    • Paper by Becher Neme, Michael Kilkelly,

    Today's evolving digital tools allow designers to be more creative in designing new forms and geometries. Adapting similar tools to the fabrication a…

  • Building Scale Mock-up

    • Paper by Michael Martinez · Asim Tahir

    Until recently, Google has occupied buildings that were designed for others and modified the interiors to suit its needs. Many of the improvements we…

  • Unitized Curtain Wall

    • Paper by Brian Masuda · Kathleen Kulpa · Margaret Tyrpa

    Unitized curtain wall has become ubiquitous in contemporary facade design and construction due to advantages associated with speed of erection, lower…

  • Realizing Bespoke Structural Glass Facades

    • Paper by Ned Kirschbaum, FAIA, CCCA, LEED AP · Peter Koukos · Alfonso Lopez, P.E.

    In the very earliest stages of a design, an architect imagines a unique glazed facade form and wonders, “Is this possible?” and “What will it cost?” …