Papers

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    Ginza Six

    • Paper by Katsuhiko Muramoto, Associate Professor of Architecture Junko Owada, Architect at Asahi Building Wall Company, Tokyo

    Tokyo’s prestigious Ginza District, is home to innovative architectural design. One of the most recent examples is Ginza Six (GSIX), the largest comm…

  • Rethinking Building Skins

    • Paper by Eugenia Gasparri · Arianna Brambilla · Gabriele Lobaccaro · Francesco Goia · Annalisa Andaloro · Alberto Sangiorgio

    Building skins play a pivotal role in architecture. Other than the aesthetical and architectural aspects, facades are key to the climate performance,…

  • Sustainable Façades

    • Paper by Dr. Thomas Henriksen, Jean-Marc Moulin Norsk, Dr. Jacopo Montali,

    Transposing innovation from government funded research to commercially viable solutions becomes ever more important when combined with the urgent nee…

  • Design Considerations and the Complex Facade featured image

    Design Considerations and the Complex Facade

    • Paper by Stan Su,

    The design of complex, high-performance facades involves balancing attention towards principles of material selection, thermal and moisture protectio…

  • Daylighting Post-Occupancy Evaluation Study featured image

    Daylighting Post-Occupancy Evaluation Study

    • Paper by Jae Yong Suk, Ph.D., Helena Zambrano, AIA,

    Daylighting is a key strategy to energy efficiency and improved occupant comfort, health, and productivity in buildings. However, providing desired a…

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    Architectural Shape Optimization

    • Paper by Patricia Edith Camporeale, PhD, Posdoc researcher

    This paper explores the architectural shape optimization of typical housing typologies: slab and high-rise residential buildings to reduce primary en…

  • 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 …

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    Envelope For Service

    • Paper by Annalisa Andaloro, Miren Juaristi, Stefano Avesani, Giulia Santoro, Matteo Orlandi,

    Envelope-for-Service (E4S) is a novel business model developed with the aim of converting the building façade from a traditionally traded good to a c…

  • End-of-Life Challenges in Facade Design featured image

    End-of-Life Challenges in Facade Design

    • Paper by Rebecca Hartwell, PhD Candidate Mauro Overend, Professor of Structural Design & Mechanics

    In recent decades, there has been increased attention to reduce the operational energy performance of buildings. Stringent legislation on building en…

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    Xilinx Case Study

    • Paper by Michael Martinez, LEED AP, Stet Sanborn, AIA, LEED AP, CPHC,

    The transformation of a dark and inhumane 1970s tilt-up concrete office building into a high performance, light-filled modern workplace was enabled b…

  • Two Sides to Sustainability & High-performance featured image

    Two Sides to Sustainability & High-performance

    • Paper by Brian Fraumeni, Associate, Project Designer Julia Ragragio Ruiz, LEED AP BD+C, Sustainability Strategist Adam Moqrane, Intern

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

  • Contextualizing Glass and Carbon Impacts

    • Paper by Kayla Natividad, PhD, WELL AP, LEED Green Associate · Kyle Sword

    Climate change goals will require significant improvements in the way buildings are constructed and operated. Building reuse can combat climate chang…

  • The Monash Woodside Building featured image

    The Monash Woodside Building

    • Paper by Alberto Sangiorgio, Principal Façade Engineer Andrew Cortese, Managing Partner and Design Director - Sydney Office Walter van der Linde, Lead Engineer, Buildings Mechanical

    Today’s environmental challenges highlight the necessity of a holistic approach to façade design and construction, key to achieve the ambitious 2030 …

  • A Compact, Unitized Double Skin Facade featured image

    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…

  • Designing with Photovoltaics featured image

    Designing with Photovoltaics

    • Paper by Wayne Walker, Associate, Project Architect Julia Ragragio Ruiz, LEED AP BD+C, Sustainability Strategist Sam Crawford, Intern

    Photovoltaics (PV) have been utilized in buildings for decades, especially in Europe where legislative support has largely driven the market. With ne…

  • Terracotta 1912 to 2018 featured image

    Terracotta 1912 to 2018

    • Paper by Carol Loewenson, FAIA, LEED AP, Stephen Dietz, AIA, LEED AP,

    Center Three is a 100-year-old, one million square-foot building in Long Island City, New York that was constructed over the course of one year. It w…