Papers

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  • Thermal Analysis of Complex Glazing featured image

    Thermal Analysis of Complex Glazing

    • Paper by Adrian Turcato, Chris Stutzki, Erik Olsen,

    The use of bidirectional scattering distribution function incorporated in a transient systems simulation program, allows engineers to accurately dete…

  • Design Principles For Museum Daylight Systems featured image

    Design Principles For Museum Daylight Systems

    • Paper by Edgar Stach, PhD, Professor, Director Michael Esposito, Senior Building Analyst

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

  • VR For Daylight featured image

    VR For Daylight

    • Paper by Kelly Burkhart, Enclosure Technical Designer Caris Frazier-Baker, Technical Artist for Virtual Reality Sanjeev Tankha, AIA, LEED AP BD+C, Director of Enclosure Engineering

    Daylighting is often an important component of architectural design and heavily influenced by a building’s facade and enclosure systems. Unlike many …

  • Shaping Skin featured image

    Shaping Skin

    • Paper by John Neary AIA LEED AP NCARB, Sr. Associate

    The conventional modern facade is essentially flat, which creates the tendency toward visual monotony and problems for modulating daylight—both on th…

  • Retroreflective Coating for Window Blinds featured image

    Retroreflective Coating for Window Blinds

    • Paper by Luca Papaiz, Lars Oliver Grobe, Giuseppe De Michele,

    Solar shading devices are required to find a trade-off between conflicting requirements: Protection from excessive solar gains and glare, daylight pr…

  • Balancing Visual Comfort and Energy Efficiency featured image

    Balancing Visual Comfort and Energy Efficiency

    • Paper by Berardo Matalucci PhD, Director, Environmental Design Edward Palka AIA LEED AP BD+C, Designer Jennifer Siqueira LEED AP, Associate Jenny Lin, Associate Coles Jennings PE, BEMP, LEED AP BD+C, Sr. Energy and Sustainability Engineer Alex Chapin, Energy Engineer II Sameer Kumar AIA, Director, Enclosure Design Nadine Bergen AIA LEED AP, Project Director Christopher Sharples AIA, Principal

    With increasing interest in wellness and human-centric design in workplaces, the design of building enclosures is predicated on optimizing competing …

  • Hydroformed Shading featured image

    Hydroformed Shading

    • Paper by Michelle Siu-Ching Lee, Architect Robert Matthew Noblett, Partner Roman Schieber, Associate Director

    New approaches to lightweight metal forming have the potential to advance architectural fabrication, particularly in the design and engineering of hi…

  • 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…

  • The Thermal Blanket Concept featured image

    The Thermal Blanket Concept

    • Paper by Bharat Patel, PE, CEM, LEED AP, Michael Bulander, AIA, LEED AP,

    This paper tells the story of a Double Skin Facade (DSF), where high performance and multi-disciplinary collaboration saves a library concept of open…

  • Go Big or Go Home! featured image

    Go Big or Go Home!

    • Paper by Patrick Loughran, FAIA, PE, LEED AP, Richard Barrett, AIA, Senior Associate

    This paper will focus on the design and detailing of large-format glass enclosures intended to maximize transparency using state-of-the-art materials…