Geometric Patterns as Architectural Forms
Facade design is a key component of architectural expression, and increasingly a key design consideration due to growing importance of factors like: …
Facade design is a key component of architectural expression, and increasingly a key design consideration due to growing importance of factors like: …
This research looks at the relationship of material and geometric distribution to set a methodology for integrating structural and thermal design. Th…
With the advent of more sophisticated analysis methods and the desire to optimize geometries of structural silicone joints in high performance design…
Facade engineering aims at appropriately balancing the demands imposed by the context and the capabilities inherent to the materials, the geometries …
The Parametric Louver System is a customized tool that expedites several design iterations while embedding multiple design parameters. The ambition o…
Kresge Auditorium and the MIT Chapel, designed by Eero Saarinen and built in 1955, are both world renowned works of architecture and powerful symbols…
Urban noise pollution is a major environmental health problem. International organizations are making efforts to prevent health damage due to high le…
Highly transformable materials can be used as adaptive exterior shading systems by leveraging the relationship between external stimuli (heat) and re…
Navigating the building code, while challenging in any respect, can be even trickier when considering the use of emerging materials on building facad…
Cost-effective, sustainable, self-actuating, thermally-responsive, bio-composite exo-skins that act like shields or cloaks for existing buildings cou…
The research is structured around complex optical effects of undulated glass and coatings that exhibit high reflectivity, especially at higher incide…
Historical published weathered annealed failure data consisting of 13 samples were collected and glass failure prediction model surface flaw paramete…
The traditional building facade as a permanent construction does not actively respond to the differing needs from varying weather conditions. Convent…
Providing a unique and integral cladding/envelope solution suited for high-rise buildings has been an inherent challenge for this building typology s…
This abstract proposes that architectural facade design over the last 60 years has convulsed in light of two disruptions: air spaces which create ven…
New approaches to lightweight metal forming have the potential to advance architectural fabrication, particularly in the design and engineering of hi…
Model building codes and standards in the United States use a probabilistic model to define glass load resistance (LR). In general, these model build…
Glass has become a popular building material that is used not only for windows but also as a load-bearing material. New dimensions of glass panes in …
Apertures is a six-story, commercial building in the Roma Norte neighborhood of Mexico City–a neighborhood severely impacted by the 1985 and 2017 ear…