Papers

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    Building Scale Mock-up

    • Paper by Michael Martinez, Associate Asim Tahir, District & Renewable Energy Lead

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

  • Digital Medium, Tangible Message

    • Paper by Nathaniel Barlam

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

  • Carbon-Dioxide-Inhaling Facade

    • Paper by Prof. Dr. Timo Schmidt · Carmen Herrmann · Dr. Michael Lakatos · Daniel Zabicki · Prof. Dr.-Ing. Michael Wahl · Kai Scherer

    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 …

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    Thermal Bridging and Building Facades

    • Paper by Ivan Lee,

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

  • Growing Myceliated Facades

    • Paper by Thibaut Houette, M. Arch. · Brian Foresi · Christopher Maurer, AIA, NCARB · Dr. Petra Gruber

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

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    Kinetics in Building Facades

    • Paper by Sean Cullen, Professor Greg Keeffe,

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

  • Embodied Carbon Of Timber Unitized Curtain Wall featured image

    Embodied Carbon Of Timber Unitized Curtain Wall

    • Paper by Isabelle Hens, LEED AP BD+C, WELL AP, EIT, Environmental Designer Sophie Pennetier, Associate Director - Special Projects Simon Schleicher, Associate Professor

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

  • Historical Evolution of Responsive Facades

    • Paper by Negar Heidari Matin, Ph.D. Candidate, LEED GA · Ali Eydgahi, Ph.D. · Shimming Shyu, Ph.D., RA, LEED AP BD+C · Payam H. Matin, Ph.D.

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

  • Exo-Skins featured image

    Exo-Skins

    • Paper by Nick Braaksma, Malini Srivastava, AIA, Chad Ulven,

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

  • Undulated Glass Self-shading featured image

    Undulated Glass Self-shading

    • Paper by Nebojsa Jakica, Assistant professor in Facade Design and Engineering Mikkel K. Kragh, Professor, Head of Civil and Architectural Unit

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

  • Separating Direct From Diffuse featured image

    Separating Direct From Diffuse

    • Paper by Nick Novelli, PhD, Robert Gordon, Igor Varfolomeev,

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

  • Put Your Sweater On! featured image

    Put Your Sweater On!

    • Paper by Eric Haas, AIA, LEED AP BD+C, Adjunct Associate Professor

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

  • Design Principles For Museum Daylight Systems

    • Paper by Edgar Stach, PhD · Michael Esposito

    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

    • Paper by Dima Othman, B.A.Ing., M.Eng., LEED AP Daniel Arztmann, Dipl.-Ing., M.Eng., EFN, FTI Professor for Façade Construction, Technische Hochschule Ostwestfalen Lippe (TH-OWL) Head of Building Physics,

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

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    Infinite Panel System

    • Paper by Mike Ryan, Director of Product Development Facades Division Brian Stern, Regional Energy Director Michael Adams, Senior Energy Analyst

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

  • Renewing Historic Facades

    • Paper by Christine Reynolds, PE · Hans Thummel, AIA, LEED AP BD+C

    As the first phase of a $4 billion dollar, 180-acre, 60 building government preservation project in Washington DC, this case study reviews the envelo…

  • Edge Lighting Glazing with Hidden Fixtures featured image

    Edge Lighting Glazing with Hidden Fixtures

    • Paper by Dave McCarroll, Dan Weinreber, Lei Fu,

    Dynamic architectural lighting in urban areas is a key element in creating attractive nighttime icons in addition to potentially generating advertise…

  • Process of Repair Evaluation

    • Paper by Linda Fu, RA, LEED AP · Christopher Morgan, P.E.

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