Papers

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  • Facade Technology in Educational Methodology featured image

    Facade Technology in Educational Methodology

    • Paper by Roger Schroeder, Lecturer Joseph A. Ebert, Professor

    With facades becoming increasingly more complex, and performance a key objective, expertise becomes an important component of successful design proje…

  • Novel Techniques for Facade Optimization featured image

    Novel Techniques for Facade Optimization

    • Paper by Viktoria Henriksson,

    Complex freeform architectural enclosures are becoming increasingly popular and easy to model and design with the help of modern computational tools.…

  • Multilayer Design Technique in the Metal Facades featured image

    Multilayer Design Technique in the Metal Facades

    • Paper by Soleyman Arebi, Kiamoosh Farhang Djavid, Naser Paryab, Bahram Allahyari Emadi, Mohammad Manafazadeh, manafzadeh@arvin-uzman.com Hossein Mahmoudi,

    Multilayer design technique in metal facades is introduced in this paper. Generally, in this technique, a metal facade is designed in the fourth laye…

  • Smart Colored Window Technology

    • Paper by Negar Heidari Matin · Seyed Mojtaba Mirabedini · Zhina Rashidzadeh

    Traditional architecture can be a valuable source of inspiration for designers. Sustainable design concepts in traditional architecture have been exp…

  • Hurricane-acoustic Glazing Barriers Using New Interlayer Technology featured image

    Hurricane-acoustic Glazing Barriers Using New Interlayer Technology

    • Paper by Stephen J Bennison, B.Sc., M.S., Ph.D., Research Fellow Alejandro G Gonzalez, Sales and Marketing Charles Anthony Smith, Research Scientist Rebecca L Smith, Research Scientist Takuya Kobayashi, Research Scientist Toshiyuki Iguchi, Engineering Manager

    In the last twenty years we have seen the development of polymer interlayers for laminated glass where the resin compositions have been optimized for…

  • Contextual Envelopes featured image

    Contextual Envelopes

    • Paper by Zoltan Neville,

    Aesthetic and technical capabilities of facade design have become seemingly endless as building technologies progress. While the capacity to address …

  • ACT Facade featured image

    ACT Facade

    • Paper by Paul-Rouven Denz, Daniel Arztmann, Dipl.-Ing., M.Eng., EFN, FTI Professor for Façade Construction, Technische Hochschule Ostwestfalen Lippe (TH-OWL) Head of Building Physics Natchai Suwannapruk,

    Due to material and technological advancement during the last century, transparency has become a prominent trend in contemporary architecture. Howeve…

  • Novel Thermal Break Solution

    • Paper by Yuzhen Steve Zhou

    Thermal-break-blanket technology is a novel and high-performance thermal break solution for aluminum curtain walls. The thermal-break-blanket is inst…

  • Generative Design Tool

    • Paper by Amir Hosseinzadeh Zarrabi · Mona Azarbayjani · Maryam Tavakoli

    The piezoelectric facade as a self-sustained technology can generate a considerable amount of energy by converting swaying motions (actuated by the w…

  • Optimized Adaptive Re-Use

    • Paper by Matthew Parker · John Souleles

    Contemporary building practice represents a disconnect between traditional manufacturing techniques, that favor straight runs and orthogonal geometri…

  • The First Triple Certified Facade

    • Paper by Stephen Katz, AIA, LEED AP BD+C

    Johnson Controls (JCI), a leading provider of intelligent building technology solicited the design of a 35,000sm headquarters for its Asia-Pacific Re…

  • Case Study: Renovation of Fountain Place featured image

    Case Study: Renovation of Fountain Place

    • Paper by Alfonso Lopez P.E., Principal and CEO David Dunham P.E, Director of Business Development Diarmuid Kelleher P.E., S.E., Director of Engineering

    Fountain Place is a project that exemplifies the latest technology and applications in building skin design and jumbo structural glass applications, …

  • The Evolution of AEC Professional Silos

    • Paper by David Olsen, AIA · Megan Leon, P.E. · Christopher Chiuchiolo, LEED AP · Andrea Bono, P.E., LEED AP BD+C · Nick Rustia, P.E. · Diane T Sands, MLIS, MFA, MS-GIST

    Healthcare projects in northern California require specialized knowledge to navigate regulation, technological advancements, and project execution du…

  • Specifying Electrochromic Glass featured image

    Specifying Electrochromic Glass

    • Paper by Belinda Valenti, AIA, LEED AP BD+C, Associate Justin Glover, AIA, LEED AP BD+C, Associate Principal

    Electrochromic (EC) glass is a seemingly magical solution to a building’s sun shading problems. A technology that was originally developed about sixt…

  • Form as Energy featured image

    Form as Energy

    • Paper by Matthew Fineout,

    All too often, high-performance building envelopes are considered in terms of new materials and technologies that push specific systems to improve en…

  • 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…

  • Shade and Spectacle featured image

    Shade and Spectacle

    • Paper by Warren Techentin, FAIA, NCARB, LEED, Adjunct Associate Professor

    This paper will look at the different facades of the Elysian Fields apartment building designed by Warren Techentin Architecture [WTARCH] and complet…

  • Algorithmic Patterns for Facade Design featured image

    Algorithmic Patterns for Facade Design

    • Paper by Inês Caetano, António Leitão,

    Recently, building envelopes have been exhibiting complex shapes and patterns, a trend supported by current digital technologies. Likewise, the desig…

  • The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, LA featured image

    The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, LA

    • Paper by Roman Scheiber, Associate Director ppa. Florian Meier,

    Renzo Piano Building Workshop designed a 290,000 sf museum celebrating the artistry and technology of film, becoming the world’s first museum and eve…

  • Seismic Design of Jumbo Glass Structures featured image

    Seismic Design of Jumbo Glass Structures

    • Paper by Alfonso E. Lopez, P.E., CEO David Dunham, P.E., Director of Business Development

    The design of structural glass systems continues to evolve with the parallel development of new manufacturing technology. Improvements in the manufac…