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  • Building Scale Mock-up featured image

    Building Scale Mock-up

    <p>Until recently, Google has occupied buildings that were designed for others and modified the interiors to suit its needs. Many of the improvements…

  • Digital Medium, Tangible Message featured image

    Digital Medium, Tangible Message

    <p>The reaches of architecture are inherently linked to the efficacy of communication, and as emerging technology broadens the conceptual horizon of…

  • 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…

  • Recent Adaptive Textile Façade Systems

    <p><em>Adaptive facade systems are a promising approach to achieve a dynamic response to varying weather conditions and user demands. The…

  • Carbon-Dioxide-Inhaling Facade

    3.5 billion years ago, cyanobacteria created the foundation for life on Earth by producing the oxygen basis for our atmosphere. Should we once again

  • Thermal Bridging and Building Facades featured image

    Thermal Bridging and Building Facades

    <p>Thermal bridging through building façades have been overlooked by designers and building energy codes and standards in the past, which has led to…

  • Growing Myceliated Facades featured image

    Growing Myceliated Facades

    <p>Today's sustainability in architecture takes into consideration the complete life cycle of buildings and their components, from resource…

  • Kinetics in Building Facades featured image

    Kinetics in Building Facades

    <p>The prominence of climatically responsive building facades through the use of kinetics has proliferated in recent years due to a concern for the…

  • Embodied Carbon Of Timber Unitized Curtain Wall featured image

    Embodied Carbon Of Timber Unitized Curtain Wall

    <p>The building envelope is at the intersection of embodied and operational emissions. Curtain wall specifically could play an important role in…

  • Historical Evolution of Responsive Facades featured image

    Historical Evolution of Responsive Facades

    <p>Responsive facade system is considered a major component of high-performance building envelope that is capable of responding to environmental…

  • Exo-Skins featured image

    Exo-Skins

    <p>Cost-effective, sustainable, self-actuating, thermally-responsive, bio-composite exo-skins that act like shields or cloaks for existing buildings…

  • Undulated Glass Self-shading featured image

    Undulated Glass Self-shading

    <p>The research is structured around complex optical effects of undulated glass and coatings that exhibit high reflectivity, especially at higher…

  • Separating Direct From Diffuse featured image

    Separating Direct From Diffuse

    <p>An Enclosure-Integrated, Daylighting, Tracking Solar Collector (EIDTSC) has been developed for market which integrates into a building’s…

  • Put Your Sweater On!

    During the particularly cold first months of 1977 President Jimmy Carter, in what some call “The Sweater Speech,” famously noted how much energy

  • Design Principles For Museum Daylight Systems

    This research unlocks the relationship between space, structure and light in nine unique museums developed by architect Renzo Piano. Renzo Piano uses

  • Evaluating The Environmental Performance Of Stick Curtain Wall Systems

    <p>The construction industry is one of the greatest sources of pollution, where 39% of global energy-related carbon emissions are attributed to…

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    Infinite Panel System

    <p>Today, building facades are expected to do much more than merely provide shelter, which is driving the need for higher performing envelope…

  • 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