International Facade Education
Globalization in the construction industry has brought about new demands for buildings and construction projects, new demands that still need to take…
Globalization in the construction industry has brought about new demands for buildings and construction projects, new demands that still need to take…
Developments in performative computational analysis, mass customization, and complex form manipulation revolutionized building envelope design proces…
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…
The global increase in atmospheric temperature rise combined with the rapid growth of previously underdeveloped climate zones presents a growing need…
This paper documents a six year academia/industry collaboration between researchers at the Department of Architecture, University at Buffalo (SUNY) a…
The European climate and energy targets for 2020 demand significant improvement of the energy performance of buildings since one third of the end-use…
The paper will try to study the impact of window opening on waiting room experience of patients in an eye hospital along with their attendants. As di…
As facades become more sophisticated and complex, more detail-intensive and performance-critical, it's vital that architecture students develop a dee…
Responsive facade system is considered a major component of high-performance building envelope that is capable of responding to environmental stimuli…
The prominence of climatically responsive building facades through the use of kinetics has proliferated in recent years due to a concern for the redu…
California is set to be drier and more drought prone with climate change. Wildfire and the subsequent loss of life and housing is a huge challenge. C…
We have seen rapid expansion in the last decade of laminated glass design using modern analytical and computational methods. Essential to the proper …
Curtain wall design commonly uses insulating glass units for vision and spandrel glazing to provide better visual harmonization of building facade gl…
The project represents a successful integration of a glass facade with the primary structure of the building. The choice of the building material is …
With net zero and carbon neutral mandates on the near horizon, New York City has pushed the green building envelope by leveraging incentive-based pro…
Laminated glass with standard PVB has long been used for safety and security due to its ability to adhere the broken glass fragments together. As the…
Approximately 80% of our total building stock is from the 20th century. During the last decades, along with an increasing appreciation of modern arch…
This paper outlines the successful implementation of digital workflows between the design team composed of Architect, Structural Engineer and Project…
All too often, high-performance building envelopes are considered in terms of new materials and technologies that push specific systems to improve en…
Cost-effective, sustainable, self-actuating, thermally-responsive, bio-composite exo-skins that act like shields or cloaks for existing buildings cou…