Papers

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  • The First Triple Certified Facade

    • Paper by Stephen Katz, AIA, LEED AP BD+C

    Johnson Controls (JCI), a leading provider of intelligent building technology solicited the design of a 35,000sm headquarters for its Asia-Pacific Re…

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    ETFE Membrane Envelope Strategies

    • Paper by Audrey L Worden, ISSF, Principal + Founding Partner Kihong R. Ku, DDes, Associate Professor, Design Technology and Architectural Innovation, Adaptive Envelopes Alexander G. Worden, RA NCARB, Principal + Founding Partner

    Airflow within the cavity of double-skin facades is a key component of adaptive building envelopes which change thermophysical properties to meet cha…

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    A Compact, Unitized Double Skin Facade

    • Paper by Alex Cox, LEED AP, James Hock, LEED AP BD+C, Laura Ziegler, Karin Lamberts,

    Driven by an increasing demand for high thermal and acoustic performance, transparency, and low maintenance costs, a number of facade innovations hav…

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    Adaptive Building Envelope

    • Paper by Abolfazl Ganji Kheybari, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Art and Architecture, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran Jochen Lam,

    Designing a multi-functional building envelope as an architectural façade, environmental interface and solar collector is a multi-objective explorati…

  • Towards Net Zero Enclosures

    • Paper by Jessica Santonastaso, AIA · Alan Estabrook, AIA

    As architects and designers we understand the urgency of addressing the building sector’s role in the ongoing environmental crisis. Architecture2030 …

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    Digital Lifecycle of Building Envelopes

    • Paper

    “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…

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    Thinking About Facades

    • Paper by Marc Schiler, FASES, LC,

    There have been three decades of liberating developments in the application of descriptive geometry and freeform design methods, as well as the abili…

  • Kinetics in Building Facades

    • Paper by Sean Cullen · Professor Greg Keeffe

    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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    Adaptive Facades

    • Paper by Walter Haase, Werner Sobek, Enrica Oliva, Michele Andaloro,

    Facade engineering aims at appropriately balancing the demands imposed by the context and the capabilities inherent to the materials, the geometries …