Fully Tempered Glass in Spandrel Applications
Recent years have seen an increase in the use of insulated glazing units (IGUs) in spandrel applications to visually blend the appearance between the…
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Form as Energy
All too often, high-performance building envelopes are considered in terms of new materials and technologies that push specific systems to improve en…
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Deconstructing the Window
Over the years, the industry has relied heavily on the increasing performance of low-e coatings to drive window U-factors (thermal transmittance) low…
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Direct Sun and Occupant Comfort
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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Digital Medium, Tangible Message
The reaches of architecture are inherently linked to the efficacy of communication, and as emerging technology broadens the conceptual horizon of the…
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Differentiated Building Skin
The Los Angeles Stadium’s doubly curved skin is composed of over 35,000 unique triangular panels covering 296,502 square feet of surface area. The pa…
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Facade Wind Loading
Wind induced pressure is a major design consideration for building facades. However, the effects of facade geometry and urban terrain on wind loading…
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DC Water Headquarters Case Study
Facades must be responsive to a myriad of qualities and influences ranging from urban impact and aesthetic character to numerous performance requirem…
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Designing Structural Laminated Glass
Laminated glass with standard PVB has long been used for safety and security due to its ability to adhere the broken glass fragments together. As the…
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Exo-Skins
Cost-effective, sustainable, self-actuating, thermally-responsive, bio-composite exo-skins that act like shields or cloaks for existing buildings cou…
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Daylighting Post-Occupancy Evaluation Study
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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Evaluating Additive Manufacturing for Metallic Facade Components
The state-of-the-art of Additive Manufacturing (AM), popularly known as 3D printing, shows its prospective future in the Architecture-Engineering-Con…
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Emulating Nature's Structured Randomness in Facade Design
The wonder of nature is the abundance of unique forms she creates based on a few simple physical principles or laws. No two snowflakes are alike. Eve…
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Design Digital Recipes
Precision in digital workflow is necessary to deliver facade projects where there is a high design aesthetic or structural performance requirement. T…
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Fire Safety in High Rise Exterior Facades
One of the most complex yet least understood areas where fire can spread is at the perimeter of a building. Fire can not only spread from floor-to-fl…
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Establishing a Life Cycle Assessment Methodology for Innovative Facade
Life cycle assessment was introduced in the 1970s as an analytical tool to quantify the environmental impact of a product, process, or service. Thoug…
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Design Considerations and the Complex Facade
The design of complex, high-performance facades involves balancing attention towards principles of material selection, thermal and moisture protectio…
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Edge Lighting Glazing with Hidden Fixtures
Dynamic architectural lighting in urban areas is a key element in creating attractive nighttime icons in addition to potentially generating advertise…
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Design Considerations
Window glass design using ASTM E 1300 entails determining glass thickness(es) and types so that the window glass construction load resistance magnitu…
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EUI of Building Clusters
Large master planned developments such as Battery Park City in Manhattan, Mission Bay in San Francisco, and Playa Vista in Los Angeles were built ove…
