Reinforced Polymer Concrete Screen Walls
Apertures is a six-story, commercial building in the Roma Norte neighborhood of Mexico City–a neighborhood severely impacted by the 1985 and 2017…
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Climate-Oriented Prefabricated Building Envelopes
Facades developed in response to climactic factors increase performance and human comfort while reducing energy loads. A single building envelope… -
Digital Enablement for Manufacturing
Architectural design freedom achieved on high-end projects currently costs over $1,000/sq. Ft. Building materials have long been relegated to plane… -
Differentiated Building Skin
The Los Angeles Stadium’s doubly curved skin is composed of over 35,000 unique triangular panels covering 296,502 square feet of surface area. The… -
Design Considerations and the Complex Facade
The design of complex, high-performance facades involves balancing attention towards principles of material selection, thermal and moisture… -
Facade Design Beyond Buildings
At the core of facade design is the concept of interdisciplinarity, a bridge between concept and materialization apt to relay a built form… -
Infinite Panel System
Today, building facades are expected to do much more than merely provide shelter, which is driving the need for higher performing envelope solutions.… -
Prefab Facades – from Prototype to Product?
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… -
Detailing & Engineering Of Complex Geometry Copper Panels
Paper Abstract with photos and illustrations Detailing and Engineering of copper panels with complex geometries: A case study in developing a
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The Butterfly
Providing a unique and integral cladding/envelope solution suited for high-rise buildings has been an inherent challenge for this building typology… -
Mixed Reality in Facade Education
Developments in performative computational analysis, mass customization, and complex form manipulation revolutionized building envelope design… -
Architectural Ceramic Assemblies
This paper documents a six year academia/industry collaboration between researchers at the Department of Architecture, University at Buffalo (SUNY)… -
Unitized Cavity Wall Design and Implementation
Double Skin Facades (DSF), constructed from individual aluminum framed curtain wall assemblies, provide a means of achieving acoustic and thermal… -
Effective Facade Modularization
Facade systems of various transparent and opaque materials and systems are increasingly becoming integrated components of modularized facade… -
Inside the Box
The trend towards modular and unitized facades continues to grow in popularity due largely in part to the efficiencies gained in terms of cost and… -
Ceramic Precast Composite Panels
An innovative lightweight ceramic precast composite panel is introduced in this paper that offers the unique benefits of prefabricated off-site… -
Mastery of Measurement
The conventional approach to specifying dimensional tolerances in architecture and construction is inadequate in the theater of premanufacturing… -
Connections – Tolerance, Adjustability, Geometric Accuracy
Connections, those transitions between systems and materials, are critically important when the surfaces are curved or complex. Well-designed… -
Academic Wood Tower Choreography
With an ever-growing interest in mid- and high-rise mass timber construction, this paper highlights the insights and lessons learned across global… -
Build Test Iterate Repeat
The global increase in atmospheric temperature rise combined with the rapid growth of previously underdeveloped climate zones presents a growing need…