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  • Adaptive Building Envelope

    • Paper by Abolfazl Ganji Kheybari · Jochen Lam

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

  • Elliptical Ways

    • Paper by Gustav Fagerström · Lia Tramontini · Kelly Burkhart · Jianing Song · Sanjeev Tankha

    Construction projects almost invariably encounter a critical stage at the moment of handover between the designing and the executing party. At this

  • Climate-Oriented Prefabricated Building Envelopes

    • Paper by Sridharan Gandhi · Andrew Tsay Jacobs, AIA, EIT, LEED AP BD+C · Karen Kensek, Assoc. AIA, LEED AP BD+C

    Facades developed in response to climactic factors increase performance and human comfort while reducing energy loads. A single building envelope

  • Working With Big Data

    • Paper by Cristobal Correa

    Big data is having a noticeable impact on enclosure engineering design. With continuing advancements that liberate the geometrical form and the

  • Patchwork

    • Paper by Alexander G. Worden, AIA

    It may be difficult for modern man to believe that what is known as handicraft was once the advanced manufacturing of the day. These techniques were

  • Novel Techniques for Facade Optimization

    • Paper by Viktoria Henriksson

    Complex freeform architectural enclosures are becoming increasingly popular and easy to model and design with the help of modern computational tools.

  • Localized Rigidification of PCM Envelopes

    • Paper by Elnaz Tafrihi

    This is an experimental and computational exploration of structural systems that transform between states of rigidity and flexibility. The goal is to

  • Generative Design Tool

    • Paper by Amir Hosseinzadeh Zarrabi · Mona Azarbayjani · Maryam Tavakoli

    The piezoelectric facade as a self-sustained technology can generate a considerable amount of energy by converting swaying motions (actuated by the

  • Differentiated Building Skin

    • Paper by James Warton

    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

  • Design Digital Recipes

    • Paper by Trevor Stephen Lewis, PhD, PE · Lukasz Blonski · Jessica Chen, PE

    Precision in digital workflow is necessary to deliver facade projects where there is a high design aesthetic or structural performance requirement.

  • DC Water Headquarters Case Study

    • Paper by Sven Shockey · Leland Curtis · David Fersh

    Facades must be responsive to a myriad of qualities and influences ranging from urban impact and aesthetic character to numerous performance

  • 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

  • Coupling Facade and Structure

    • Paper by Trevor Stephen Lewis, PhD, PE · Jessica Chen, PE

    Traditional approach for engineering the facade is building an isolated analysis model. However, it inhibits a dynamic design process where

  • Balancing Visual Comfort and Energy Efficiency

    • Paper by Berardo Matalucci PhD · Edward Palka AIA LEED AP BD+C · Jennifer Siqueira LEED AP · Jenny Lin · Coles Jennings PE, BEMP, LEED AP BD+C · Alex Chapin · Sameer Kumar AIA · Nadine Bergen AIA LEED AP · Christopher Sharples AIA

    With increasing interest in wellness and human-centric design in workplaces, the design of building enclosures is predicated on optimizing competing

  • Mixed Reality in Facade Education

    • Paper by Phillip Anzalone AIA · Amber Bartosh, RA LEED AP BD+C

    Developments in performative computational analysis, mass customization, and complex form manipulation revolutionized building envelope design

  • Influence of Facade Materials on the Acoustic Environment

    • Paper by Alvaro Balderrama, M.Eng. LEED Green Associate · Daniel Arztmann, Prof. Dipl-Ing. M.Eng. · Jens-Uwe Schulz, Prof. Dipl-Ing.

    Urban noise pollution is a major environmental health problem. International organizations are making efforts to prevent health damage due to high

  • Optimized Adaptive Re-Use

    • Paper by Matthew Parker · John Souleles

    Contemporary building practice represents a disconnect between traditional manufacturing techniques, that favor straight runs and orthogonal

  • Geometric Patterns as Architectural Forms

    • Paper by Joshua Schultz, PhD, PE, LEED AP · Neil Katz, AIA

    Facade design is a key component of architectural expression, and increasingly a key design consideration due to growing importance of factors like: