Envelope For Service
Envelope-for-Service (E4S) is a novel business model developed with the aim of converting the building façade from a traditionally traded good to a c…
Envelope-for-Service (E4S) is a novel business model developed with the aim of converting the building façade from a traditionally traded good to a c…
Aesthetic and technical capabilities of facade design have become seemingly endless as building technologies progress. While the capacity to address …
Airflow within the cavity of double-skin facades is a key component of adaptive building envelopes which change thermophysical properties to meet cha…
Designing a multi-functional building envelope as an architectural façade, environmental interface and solar collector is a multi-objective explorati…
Kinetic responsive systems are gaining attention in architectural applications, to reduce the building’s energy consumption and environmental impact,…
Facades play an integral role in defining the experience of modern life. As rising populations gravitate from rural to urban communities, they bring …
The Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California features an extremely diverse set of facade systems within one…
“The digital transformation will change everything” – with this quote in mind a deep look into the current facade business will be given with a speci…
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 …
Facades developed in response to climactic factors increase performance and human comfort while reducing energy loads. A single building envelope wil…
This is an experimental and computational exploration of structural systems that transform between states of rigidity and flexibility. The goal is to…
A building’s envelope mitigates the effects of meteorological phenomena – including lightning – upon the structure and its occupants and contents. Th…
Understanding how a building will reflect sunlight has gone from a rare requirement to a key consideration during the planning permission process in …
Building envelopes cover a considerable part of the urban exterior surfaces, and to therefore have a significant leverage effect on the climate resil…
Recently, building envelopes have been exhibiting complex shapes and patterns, a trend supported by current digital technologies. Likewise, the desig…
Building envelopes are not only an immediately visible part of the building, they have also become a major factor both for cost and performance of th…
Providing a unique and integral cladding/envelope solution suited for high-rise buildings has been an inherent challenge for this building typology s…
All too often, high-performance building envelopes are considered in terms of new materials and technologies that push specific systems to improve en…
The building envelope is at the intersection of embodied and operational emissions. Curtain wall specifically could play an important role in reducin…
Stainless steel has been successfully used in building envelopes since the completion of the Chrysler building in 1928. Today, it is used as both a s…