Papers

43 results

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    Kinetic Shading Systems

    • Paper by Alireza Jahanara, Negar Kalantar,

    This study focuses on experiments in kinetics and architectural skins. More extensively, it introduces a solution for environmental design issues and…

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    Data-Driven Shading Systems

    • Paper by Simon Schleicher, Luis Santos, Luisa Caldas,

    Analyzing the energy performance of complex building envelopes, determining the need for sun protection, and assessing the effectiveness of shading d…

  • Heat-actuated Auxetic Facades

    • Paper by Amira Abdel-Rahman · Elnaz Tafrihi

    Highly transformable materials can be used as adaptive exterior shading systems by leveraging the relationship between external stimuli (heat) and re…

  • Direct Sun and Occupant Comfort

    • Paper by Madeline Gradillas · Henry Richardson

    Direct sun on the body is a known potential cause of thermal discomfort for occupants, yet most thermal comfort simulations do not capture its effect…

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    Transitions Between Diverse Envelope Systems

    • Paper by Kristian Fosholt, LEED AP BD+C, Megan Koehler, AIA, LEED AP BD+C, Andrew Tsay Jacobs, AIA, EIT, LEED AP BD+C,

    The Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California features an extremely diverse set of facade systems within one…

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    Passively Actuated Systems

    • Paper by Manuel Benitez Ruiz, Student David Gerber, Associate Professor of Practice

    Kinetic or responsive facades have been developed to improve buildings' daylighting conditions while mitigating energy consumption. Still, these faca…

  • Invert Auto-Shading featured image

    Invert Auto-Shading

    • Paper by Jae Yong Suk, Assistant Professor Doris Sung, Associate Professor

    Allowing sufficient amount of natural light while avoiding excessive sunlight penetration is often hard to achieve with static facade systems due to …

  • Design Principles For Museum Daylight Systems

    • Paper by Edgar Stach, PhD · Michael Esposito

    This research unlocks the relationship between space, structure and light in nine unique museums developed by architect Renzo Piano. Renzo Piano uses…

  • Kinetic Solar Envelope

    • Paper by Christina Koukelli · Alejandro Prieto · Serdar Asut

    Kinetic responsive systems are gaining attention in architectural applications, to reduce the building’s energy consumption and environmental impact,…

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    VR For Daylight

    • Paper by Kelly Burkhart, Enclosure Technical Designer Caris Frazier-Baker, Technical Artist for Virtual Reality Sanjeev Tankha, AIA, LEED AP BD+C, Director of Enclosure Engineering

    Daylighting is often an important component of architectural design and heavily influenced by a building’s facade and enclosure systems. Unlike many …

  • 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 …

  • Reconfigurable Terracotta Facade

    • Paper by Jin Young Song · Dan Vrana · Jonathan Hopp · Shawn Murrey · Jiatao Wu · Jongmin Shim

    The traditional building facade as a permanent construction does not actively respond to the differing needs from varying weather conditions. Convent…

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    Orientation Specific Solar Control

    • Paper by Clifton Fordham, Assistant Professor

    During the postwar era, and before the universal adoption of air-conditioning in the United States, leading architects participated in the design of …

  • Terra Cotta Skins

    • Paper by Laura B. Garofalo

    This paper will address the potential of ornamental architectural terracotta surfaces to mitigate the effects of climate fluctuations that will creat…

  • Two Sides to Sustainability & High-performance

    • Paper by Brian Fraumeni · Julia Ragragio Ruiz, LEED AP BD+C · Adam Moqrane

    High performance can be defined as “a building that integrates and optimizes all major high-performance building attributes, including energy efficie…

  • 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…

  • Separating Direct From Diffuse

    • Paper by Nick Novelli, PhD · Robert Gordon · Igor Varfolomeev

    An Enclosure-Integrated, Daylighting, Tracking Solar Collector (EIDTSC) has been developed for market which integrates into a building’s fenestration…

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    Unitized Curtain Wall

    • Paper by Brian Masuda, Kathleen Kulpa, Margaret Tyrpa,

    Unitized curtain wall has become ubiquitous in contemporary facade design and construction due to advantages associated with speed of erection, lower…