Carbon Lean Facades
With net zero and carbon neutral mandates on the near horizon, New York City has pushed the green building envelope by leveraging incentive-based pro…
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Highly Efficient Façades with Innovative Shading and Light Control
The Science and Engineering Complex (SEC) on the Allston Campus is the largest new building at Harvard University in recent decades with a footprint …
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Growing Myceliated Facades
Today's sustainability in architecture takes into consideration the complete life cycle of buildings and their components, from resource harvesting a…
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Thinking About Facades
There have been three decades of liberating developments in the application of descriptive geometry and freeform design methods, as well as the abili…
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Multi Layer Facades
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…
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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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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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High-Performance Building Facades
For architects, designers, engineers, manufacturers, consultants, and owners' representatives interested in methods for designing high-performance facades.
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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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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…
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Curved Forming Panel Facades
The performative and visual aspects of curved forming/bending thin “formable” planar materials is explored. Early tests for deflection indicate that …
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Thermal Bridging and Building Facades
Ivan Lee, a Building Science Consultant at Morrison Hershfield recognizes the importance of mitigating thermal bridging to meet low energy targets for buildings. He points out that many jurisdictions are starting to incorporate thermal bridging into their codes and standards
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Thermal Bridging and Building Facades
Thermal bridging through building façades have been overlooked by designers and building energy codes and standards in the past, which has led to hig…
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Solid Surface Material for Facades
Navigating the building code, while challenging in any respect, can be even trickier when considering the use of emerging materials on building facad…
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Retrofit Options for Historic Facades
Building design criteria requires that government buildings be designed for a variety of extreme loads including blast, hurricane, and impact conditi…
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Realizing Bespoke Structural Glass Facades
In the very earliest stages of a design, an architect imagines a unique glazed facade form and wonders, “Is this possible?” and “What will it cost?” …
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Historical Evolution of Responsive Facades
Responsive facade system is considered a major component of high-performance building envelope that is capable of responding to environmental stimuli…
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FTI forward: Student forum on facades carbon
Our upcoming FTI Student Forum explores the intersection of Facades, Carbon, and Circularity. In a fast paced spitfire format, architecture students present their recent work and research.
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The Facade Tectonics Institute announces Facades Week: LA!
Amidst a groundswell of both criticism and concern over the performance of the built environment the FTI has announced Facades Week: LA!, a weeklong series of events in Los Angeles celebrating the building skin as the lynchpin of resilience and sustainability in buildings and urban habitat.