WRNS Studio
WRNS Studio is an architecture and planning firm that provides high quality sustainable design.
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Q&A with StudioTJOA, Creator of the Award Winning Thermalswitch Facade
Inspired by the President’s Climate Action Plan and Architecture 2030 Challenge, Metals in Construction magazine and the OMINY tapped designers in late 2015 to create an eco‐friendly, highly transparent enclosure that preserves the aesthetic integrity of 200 Park Ave.
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Net Zero Tower
John Neary describes a collaborative Advanced design Studio at City Tech that involved Permasteelisa, Skanska and Onyx Solar, with links to the published student works.
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3rd Annual ACAW Ceramic Workshop 2018 Recap
2018 teams included; Morphosis, SHoP Architects, Sasaki/Studio NYL, University at Buffalo, AECOM, and Radical Matter. The ACAWorkshop is an outstanding model of industry-academia partnership aimed at the ongoing education of students and practitioners alike.
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Episode 08: Reglazing Modernism
Special guests Uta Pottgiesser of TU Delft and Angel Ayón of AYON Studio Architecture and Preservation discuss their recent book, Reglazing Modernism, where they explore facade intervention strategies on Modern-era buildings through international case studies.
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HPDs for Facade Glass: How Transparent is Transparent?
"HPDs for Facade Glass: How Transparent is Transparent?" is an article published by the Advanced Technology Studio of Enclos examining chemical content reporting for glazed products.
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The Poetry, Pitfalls and Potential of Kinetic Facades
The Poetry, Pitfalls and Potential of Kinetic Facades is an ongoing series published by the Advanced Technology Studio of Enclos examining kinetic components in building envelopes — often eye-catching, occasionally gimmicky, and almost always a technical and economic challenge.
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Bridging Aesthetics and Technology: Balancing Building Concept with Details in the Design Development Process of the Facade System
NYCCT Architecture Program Chairman Sanjive Vaidya, asked HOK facades architect John Neary to give a design studio focused on detailing the building skin system. With HOK designer Michael Miller, Neary led a group of students through the facade system design development process.
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The Millennium IGU: A Regenerative Concept for a 1000 Year Insulated Glass Unit
The Millennium IGU: A Regenerative Concept for a 1000 Year Insulated Glass Unit is an ongoing series published by the Advanced Technology Studio of Enclos examining the undesirable lifecycle impacts associated with conventional IGU production, use and disposal.
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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 rev…
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Teaching Facades
As facades become more sophisticated and complex, more detail-intensive and performance-critical, it's vital that architecture students develop a dee…
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Effect of Thermal Bridging on Buildings' Energy Performance
Heat transfer through building facades can occur by any combinations of conduction, convection, and/or radiation. Conductive heat transfer depends on…
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Specifying Electrochromic Glass
Electrochromic (EC) glass is a seemingly magical solution to a building’s sun shading problems. A technology that was originally developed about sixt…
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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 standardi…
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Modern Heritage and Facade Improvements
Approximately 80% of our total building stock is from the 20th century. During the last decades, along with an increasing appreciation of modern arch…
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Towards A Data Driven Fabrication Process
Today's evolving digital tools allow designers to be more creative in designing new forms and geometries. Adapting similar tools to the fabrication a…
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Patchwork
It may be difficult for modern man to believe that what is known as handicraft was once the advanced manufacturing of the day. These techniques were …
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Carbon-Neutral High-Rise Envelope Nexus
The pathway to carbon-neutrality, as urged during the COP 21 in Paris, and the repeated goal for resilient buildings and urban habitats, winds right …
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Reinforced Polymer Concrete Screen Walls
Apertures is a six-story, commercial building in the Roma Norte neighborhood of Mexico City–a neighborhood severely impacted by the 1985 and 2017 ear…
