Low-Carbon Cladding and Shading Design
In the last few years, the design community has embraced the challenge of reducing embodied carbon in buildings. Several tools are now available for …
In the last few years, the design community has embraced the challenge of reducing embodied carbon in buildings. Several tools are now available for …
When it comes to the subject of building enclosure in Australia, one topic has eclipsed all others in recent years: combustible cladding. It has even…
In 2014, the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) approved the Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute (PCI) as an accredited ANSI Standards D…
Cost-effective, sustainable, self-actuating, thermally-responsive, bio-composite exo-skins that act like shields or cloaks for existing buildings cou…
Architectural design freedom achieved on high-end projects currently costs over $1,000/sq. Ft. Building materials have long been relegated to plane s…
The design of complex, high-performance facades involves balancing attention towards principles of material selection, thermal and moisture protectio…
Navigating the building code, while challenging in any respect, can be even trickier when considering the use of emerging materials on building facad…
An innovative lightweight ceramic precast composite panel is introduced in this paper that offers the unique benefits of prefabricated off-site const…
The tragic fire of June 14, 2017 at the Grenfell Tower in London, England has brought to a very public global forum issues related to the impact of f…
There is a desire in architecture to design and achieve transparent canopies and glazed rooves that are free from the visual clutter and the structur…
Today, building facades are expected to do much more than merely provide shelter, which is driving the need for higher performing envelope solutions.…
In the last twenty years we have seen the development of polymer interlayers for laminated glass where the resin compositions have been optimized for…
Parametric Design has become an invaluable tool for complex tasks like designing energy efficient buildings when joined to performance-based methodol…
Urban noise pollution is a major environmental health problem. International organizations are making efforts to prevent health damage due to high le…
This paper provides an overview of a course focusing on the façade as taught to architecture students over a twenty-year period. The need for this s…
There were good why reasons early US Modernism first evolved in California– wide open sites with no constraints (physical or zoning), and effectively…
This abstract proposes that architectural facade design over the last 60 years has convulsed in light of two disruptions: air spaces which create ven…