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Digital Lifecycle of Building Envelopes
- Paper
“The digital transformation will change everything” – with this quote in mind a deep look into the current facade business will be given with a speci…

March 22, 2020
Establishing a Life Cycle Assessment Methodology for Innovative Facade
- Paper by Vikki Lew,
Life cycle assessment was introduced in the 1970s as an analytical tool to quantify the environmental impact of a product, process, or service. Thoug…

March 14, 2018
Structuring Skin
- Paper by John Neary,
Curtain wall is the prevailing type of enclosure on modern buildings because of its economy, its independence from structure that allows flexibility …

March 14, 2018
Parametric Facade Design
- Paper by Patricia E. Camporeale, María del Pilar Mercader Moyano,
Parametric Design has become an invaluable tool for complex tasks like designing energy efficient buildings when joined to performance-based methodol…

March 14, 2018
Reduce, Reuse, Reclad
- Paper by Daniel Nauman, AIA, NCARB, LEED AP, Senior Associate Jessica Santonastaso, Associate Jennifer Sze, RA, USGBC LEED AP, Principal and Director of Special Inspections
Kintsukuroi, the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with powdered precious metal, is a practice of celebrating the life and history of an objec…

March 22, 2020
Evaluating Additive Manufacturing for Metallic Facade Components
- Paper by Natasa Mrazovic, M. Arch. Eng., M.C.E., Martin Fischer,
The state-of-the-art of Additive Manufacturing (AM), popularly known as 3D printing, shows its prospective future in the Architecture-Engineering-Con…

March 14, 2018
Doubling Mies
- Paper by Timothy Brown AIA NCARB CSI, Associate Professor
Mies van der Rohe’s concurrently designed projects for Commonwealth Promenade Apartments (1953-1956) and the Esplanade Apartments (1953-1957), saw th…

March 22, 2020
Invert Auto-Shading
- Paper by Jae Yong Suk, Assistant Professor Doris Sung, Associate Professor
Allowing sufficient amount of natural light while avoiding excessive sunlight penetration is often hard to achieve with static facade systems due to …

March 15, 2020
From Design to Experiment
- Paper by E. Yagdir CELIKER, MSc., Research Assistant Oguz C. CELIK, PhD., Professor of Structural&Earthquake Engineering
Flat cable-net facades are form-active structures which provide maximum transparency by means of point fixing components, tensioned cables, and struc…

March 22, 2020

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