The Craft of Building Enclosures
This paper will provide case studies of two high-performance building envelopes in the San Francisco Bay Area where the fabrication of bespoke façade…
This paper will provide case studies of two high-performance building envelopes in the San Francisco Bay Area where the fabrication of bespoke façade…
The SCALP device is designed to measure the residual compressive surface stress of glass. As the SCALP does not rely on the birefringence properties …
Resiliency is the capacity of a building (or building component in the case of the facade) to support building functionalities during extreme events …
For a new corporate headquarters in San Francisco’s Mission Bay district, SHoP Architects designed a semi-conditioned atrium space inside the externa…
Architectural preferences for commercial building continue towards increased transparency resulting in large lites of glass with minimal visual obstr…
Developments in performative computational analysis, mass customization, and complex form manipulation revolutionized building envelope design proces…
The performative and visual aspects of curved forming/bending thin “formable” planar materials is explored. Early tests for deflection indicate that …
Double-Skin Facades (DSF) are well-known to boost the thermal performance of a façade: they can provide extra insulation in the wintertime and lower …
What is the difference between artwork and facadework? How can artwork be integrated into building façades? What are the possibilities when a façade …
Facades developed in response to climactic factors increase performance and human comfort while reducing energy loads. A single building envelope wil…
Navigating the building code, while challenging in any respect, can be even trickier when considering the use of emerging materials on building facad…