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  • The Monash Woodside Building featured image

    The Monash Woodside Building

    <p>Today’s environmental challenges highlight the necessity of a holistic approach to façade design and construction, key to achieve the ambitious…

  • Daylighting Post-Occupancy Evaluation Study

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

  • Targeted Enclosure Consulting

    As building enclosure consulting services evolve and mature in markets, the scopes of service that are provided and sought, can become more

  • Process of Repair Evaluation featured image

    Process of Repair Evaluation

    <p>As the building stock ages around the country and the consequences of design and/or construction that are deficient or lack resiliency become…

  • Mixed Reality in Facade Education

    Developments in performative computational analysis, mass customization, and complex form manipulation revolutionized building envelope design

  • BioFacades Classification

    Coauthors: Mary Ben Bonham, Department of Architecture + Interior Design, Miami University, Oxford, OH, USA [corresponding] [presenting at the

  • Building by Numbers featured image

    Building by Numbers

    <p>This paper outlines the successful implementation of digital workflows between the design team composed of Architect, Structural Engineer and…

  • Hybrid Timber featured image

    Hybrid Timber

    <p>This case study provides an overview of building hybrid curtain wall system and future opportunities for the use of timber. It will also review…

  • Saving Small Towns

    <p>Small towns are dying, and it is not just because of their dwindling economies. The physical fabric of our communities is literally crumbling. A…

  • Direct Sun and Occupant Comfort

    Direct sun on the body is a known potential cause of thermal discomfort for occupants, yet most thermal comfort simulations do not capture its

  • Realizing Bespoke Structural Glass Facades

    In the very earliest stages of a design, an architect imagines a unique glazed facade form and wonders, “Is this possible?” and “What will it cost?”

  • Wind-Borne Debris Impacts on Façades

    Climate change effects are causing an increase in extreme wind events’ frequency and severity, worldwide. Regions that previously were not prone to

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    Facade Wind Loading

    <p>Wind induced pressure is a major design consideration for building facades. However, the effects of facade geometry and urban terrain on wind…

  • Systems Thinking

    This paper surveys facade design education in accredited Bachelor and Master of Architecture (B.Arch and M.Arch) programs in the United States. A

  • Heat-Treated Glass featured image

    Heat-Treated Glass

    <p>What was once an accepted reality in heat-treated exterior glass, optical disturbances in glass are under increasing scrutiny by developers,…