Algorithmic Patterns for Facade Design
Recently, building envelopes have been exhibiting complex shapes and patterns, a trend supported by current digital technologies. Likewise, the desig…
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Modern Heritage and Facade Improvements
Approximately 80% of our total building stock is from the 20th century. During the last decades, along with an increasing appreciation of modern arch…
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Mixed Reality in Facade Education
Developments in performative computational analysis, mass customization, and complex form manipulation revolutionized building envelope design proces…
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Sisteccer XIII — International Facade Conference
SISTECCER, a joint production of ALUAR, DOW and VASA, has been consolidated through its previous twelve editions as a meeting place of excellence with experts from the country and abroad, to expand knowledge in technologies for building envelopes.
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Call for Abstracts: Facade Tectonics 2024 World Congress
The Facade Tectonics Institute (FTI) announces a call for abstracts for our 2024 World Congress (2024WC) to be convened in Southern California on October 8-10. When it comes to the building facade there is much to talk about.
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Heat-actuated Auxetic Facades
Highly transformable materials can be used as adaptive exterior shading systems by leveraging the relationship between external stimuli (heat) and re…
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All-Glass Bearing Facades
The Green Village at the TU Delft is a living lab for sustainable innovations. The Co Creation Centre (CCC) will be their new meeting center (13.5 x …
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More Than a Facade
In 2014, the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) approved the Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute (PCI) as an accredited ANSI Standards D…
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Carbon-Dioxide-Inhaling Facade
3.5 billion years ago, cyanobacteria created the foundation for life on Earth by producing the oxygen basis for our atmosphere. Should we once again …
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New Challenges – New Facades!
Being part of the European Façade Network efn, an association of ten research and education entities throughout Europe, I would like to share my experiences of last year’s conferences and research activities with this brief contribution.
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Call for Abstracts: Facade Tectonics 2022 World Congress
The Facade Tectonics Institute (FTI) announces a call for abstracts for our 2022 World Congress (2022WC) to be convened in Los Angeles on October 12-13. When it comes to the building facade there is much to talk about. And the Institute is aggressively inclusive, with the mission of bringing all...
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2nd International NEXT Facade Summit: Think Globally, Build Locally
The NEXT Partners, together with DBZ DEUTSCHE BAUZEITSCHRIFT as media partner, cordially invite you to the 2nd International NEXT Façade Summit on March 25, 2021 as a livestream event.
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Preserving a Historic Facade
Environmental and socio-economic benefits of sustainable preservation have become apparent most recently in the restoration of the historic former Ma…
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Imagining Future Innovative Facades
This workshop will focus on innovations in facade systems, particularly addressing materials, technologies, and innovative design methods.
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The Double Skin Facade
The largest source of air pollution in North America is the atmospheric boundary layer of a city caused by its urban canyons with pollutants produced…
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Performance Based Generative Facade Workflow for Large Scale Projects
Over the last two decades, in what has been coined “The Digital Turn”, the introduction of parametric design software has afforded increased accessib…
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Call for Posters: Facade Tectonics 2020 World Congress
We are pleased to announce that for the first time, the Facade Tectonics Institute will include a poster presentation at their 2020 World Congress. The poster presentation will serve as a graphic representation of each poster author's research and findings.
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Call for Papers: Facade Tectonics 2020 World Congress
We are at a critical moment in the evolution of the built environment. In the face of multiple challenges confronting civilization, the transition to sustainable buildings and urban habitat is happening far too slowly and inefficiently. Central to achieving this transition is the facade system
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Call for Papers: Facade Tectonics 2016 World Congress
The Facade Tectonics Institute has issued a call for papers for its 2016 Annual Conference and inaugural World Congress, which will include speaking and poster presentations, panel discussions, workshops and exhibitors.
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Kinetics in Building Facades
The prominence of climatically responsive building facades through the use of kinetics has proliferated in recent years due to a concern for the redu…