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  • Facade Maintenance Access

    <p>Facades are an architectural feature and an integral part of the building enclosure. To ensure that the facades continue their function, they must…

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    Orbit Tower

    <p>While most of high-rise buildings feature a core surrounded by a spatial frame defining the volume, one could envision a column-free plan where…

  • North Capitol Building Case Study

    <p>The Utah State Capitol North Building, currently under construction, features 80,000 SF of classically designed cubic granite detailing, including…

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    Transitions Between Diverse Envelope Systems

    <p>The Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California features an extremely diverse set of facade systems within…

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    Iconic Buildings

    <p>The iconic building principal incentive is to be visually attractive or stand out, for this purpose three main features must be accomplished: have…

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    Ceramic Precast Composite Panels

    <p>An innovative lightweight ceramic precast composite panel is introduced in this paper that offers the unique benefits of prefabricated off-site…

  • Renewing Historic Facades

    As the first phase of a $4 billion dollar, 180-acre, 60 building government preservation project in Washington DC, this case study reviews the

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    Renewing Two Saarinen Icons

    <p>Kresge Auditorium and the MIT Chapel, designed by Eero Saarinen and built in 1955, are both world renowned works of architecture and powerful…

  • Delivering Beauty

    <p>Amidst the critical conversations about the need to build better and more efficient building skins, designers are also mindful of the need for the…

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    A Compact, Unitized Double Skin Facade

    <p>Driven by an increasing demand for high thermal and acoustic performance, transparency, and low maintenance costs, a number of facade innovations…

  • BioFacades Classification

    <h3><strong>Coauthors:</strong><br /></h3> <p>Mary Ben Bonham, Department of Architecture + Interior Design, Miami University, Oxford, OH, USA…

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    Daylighting Post-Occupancy Evaluation Study

    <p>Daylighting is a key strategy to energy efficiency and improved occupant comfort, health, and productivity in buildings. However, providing…

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    Facade with Innovation

    <p>Shanshui City and Star Bund Center can be considered as representative projects of RFR Shanghai recently Both provide creative solutions for…

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    Thermal Analysis of Complex Glazing

    <p>The use of bidirectional scattering distribution function incorporated in a transient systems simulation program, allows engineers to accurately…

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    Curved Forming Panel Facades

    <p>The performative and visual aspects of curved forming/bending thin “formable” planar materials is explored. Early tests for deflection indicate…

  • Thermal Stress Analysis in Glass

    <p>The use of glass in windows and curtain walls in residential as well as in commercial buildings needs to be designed very carefully. In addition…

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    Kinetic Solar Envelope

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

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    United States Olympic and Paralympic Museum

    <p>Advanced fabrication processes combined with parametric 3D modeling give designers and architects the freedom and versatility to push the…

  • Efficiency-Driven Facade Optimization

    <p>As overall project schedules continue to contract and rising costs impact our design decisions, the importance of the design-assist phase for…