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  • Sustainable Materials

    Stainless steel has been successfully used in building envelopes since the completion of the Chrysler building in 1928. Today, it is used as both a

  • Influence of Facade Materials on the Acoustic Environment featured image

    Influence of Facade Materials on the Acoustic Environment

    <p>Urban noise pollution is a major environmental health problem. International organizations are making efforts to prevent health damage due to high…

  • Sustainable Silicone featured image

    Sustainable Silicone

    <p>Silicone materials have a long history in high performance building projects. Known for durability, they can reduce a building’s carbon footprint…

  • Heat-actuated Auxetic Facades featured image

    Heat-actuated Auxetic Facades

    <p>Highly transformable materials can be used as adaptive exterior shading systems by leveraging the relationship between external stimuli (heat) and…

  • Effective Facade Modularization

    <p>Facade systems of various transparent and opaque materials and systems are increasingly becoming integrated components of modularized facade…

  • Pioneering the Structural Terracotta Mullion Façade featured image

    Pioneering the Structural Terracotta Mullion Façade

    <p>Architects today must explore alternative enclosure materials to meet evolving energy codes and embodied carbon regulations. Terra cotta has been…

  • The Tectonics of Flimsiness featured image

    The Tectonics of Flimsiness

    <p>Architecture has traditionally celebrated the joining of two building components or materials. Joinery serves as a key site for architectural…

  • Form as Energy

    All too often, high-performance building envelopes are considered in terms of new materials and technologies that push specific systems to improve

  • Curved Forming Panel Facades featured image

    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…

  • Adaptive Facades featured image

    Adaptive Facades

    <p>Facade engineering aims at appropriately balancing the demands imposed by the context and the capabilities inherent to the materials, the…

  • Digital Enablement for Manufacturing featured image

    Digital Enablement for Manufacturing

    <p>Architectural design freedom achieved on high-end projects currently costs over $1,000/sq. Ft. Building materials have long been relegated to…

  • Thermoelectric Facades featured image

    Thermoelectric Facades

    <p>This article discusses design, prototype development and a simulation study of novel types of facade systems, which integrate thermoelectric (TE)…

  • Solid Surface Material for Facades featured image

    Solid Surface Material for Facades

    <p>Navigating the building code, while challenging in any respect, can be even trickier when considering the use of emerging materials on building…

  • Go Big or Go Home! featured image

    Go Big or Go Home!

    <p>This paper will focus on the design and detailing of large-format glass enclosures intended to maximize transparency using state-of-the-art…

  • Advances in Laminated Glass Engineering

    <p>The stability of monolithic glass fins is reasonably well defined; as an elastic material it behaves in a similar manner to other elastic…

  • Low-Carbon Cladding and Shading Design featured image

    Low-Carbon Cladding and Shading Design

    <p>In the last few years, the design community has embraced the challenge of reducing embodied carbon in buildings. Several tools are now available…

  • Contextualizing Glass and Carbon Impacts

    <p>Climate change goals will require significant improvements in the way buildings are constructed and operated. Building reuse can combat climate…