Artwork Becomes Facadework: A Collaboration with Olafur Eliasson
What is the difference between artwork and facadework? How can artwork be integrated into building façades? What are the possibilities when a façade …
What is the difference between artwork and facadework? How can artwork be integrated into building façades? What are the possibilities when a façade …
Projecting imagery onto building facades is not only becoming a marketing necessity for successful urban spectacles but is also altering social urban…
Airflow within the cavity of double-skin facades is a key component of adaptive building envelopes which change thermophysical properties to meet cha…
The subject of this case study is the design and construction of a custom corrugated-geometry facade featuring pre-patinated copper and glass for an …
In 1888 the art historian Heinrich Wölfflin proposed the notion that the primary characteristic of baroque architecture is the illusion of movement. …
High performance can be defined as “a building that integrates and optimizes all major high-performance building attributes, including energy efficie…
An assessment workflow was created to simulate and evaluate the performance of a kinetic facade in an interior space. It includes parameters of energ…
Daylighting is a key strategy to energy efficiency and improved occupant comfort, health, and productivity in buildings. However, providing desired a…
The goal is to explore the role and methodology employed between the architect and engineer as they look to resolve the opposing demands of design ae…
The real estate market continues to demand “all glass” buildings often to the detriment of human comfort and thermal performance. For an office build…
The history of high performance facades and glazing has been a tale of attempting to manage the conflicting requirements of, on one hand inviting con…
Developments in performative computational analysis, mass customization, and complex form manipulation revolutionized building envelope design proces…
An Enclosure-Integrated, Daylighting, Tracking Solar Collector (EIDTSC) has been developed for market which integrates into a building’s fenestration…
The prominence of climatically responsive building facades through the use of kinetics has proliferated in recent years due to a concern for the redu…
What does the fourth industrial revolution mean to the design and engineering of facades of the future? We are experiencing a global technological re…
During the particularly cold first months of 1977 President Jimmy Carter, in what some call “The Sweater Speech,” famously noted how much energy coul…
Due to material and technological advancement during the last century, transparency has become a prominent trend in contemporary architecture. Howeve…
Energy codes across the country are progressively getting stricter and increasing the threshold for a baseline building’s energy performance. Califor…
The performative and visual aspects of curved forming/bending thin “formable” planar materials is explored. Early tests for deflection indicate that …
Direct sun on the body is a known potential cause of thermal discomfort for occupants, yet most thermal comfort simulations do not capture its effect…