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  • Adaptive Building Envelope featured image

    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,

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

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    Elliptical Ways

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

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

  • 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 featured image

    Working With Big Data

    • Paper by Cristobal Correa,

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

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    Patchwork

    • Paper by Alexander G. Worden, AIA,

    <p>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…

  • Novel Techniques for Facade Optimization featured image

    Novel Techniques for Facade Optimization

    • Paper by Viktoria Henriksson,

    <p>Complex freeform architectural enclosures are becoming increasingly popular and easy to model and design with the help of modern computational…

  • Localized Rigidification of PCM Envelopes featured image

    Localized Rigidification of PCM Envelopes

    • Paper by Elnaz Tafrihi,

    <p>This is an experimental and computational exploration of structural systems that transform between states of rigidity and flexibility. The goal is…

  • 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 featured image

    Differentiated Building Skin

    • Paper by James Warton,

    <p>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 featured image

    Design Digital Recipes

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

    <p>Precision in digital workflow is necessary to deliver facade projects where there is a high design aesthetic or structural performance…

  • DC Water Headquarters Case Study featured image

    DC Water Headquarters Case Study

    • Paper by Sven Shockey, Leland Curtis, David Fersh,

    <p>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 featured image

    Coupling Facade and Structure

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

    <p>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 featured image

    Balancing Visual Comfort and Energy Efficiency

    • Paper by Berardo Matalucci PhD, Director, Environmental Design Edward Palka AIA LEED AP BD+C, Designer Jennifer Siqueira LEED AP, Associate Jenny Lin, Associate Coles Jennings PE, BEMP, LEED AP BD+C, Sr. Energy and Sustainability Engineer Alex Chapin, Energy Engineer II Sameer Kumar AIA, Director, Enclosure Design Nadine Bergen AIA LEED AP, Project Director Christopher Sharples AIA, Principal

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

  • 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 featured image

    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.,

    <p>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 featured image

    Optimized Adaptive Re-Use

    • Paper by Matthew Parker, Intern Architect John Souleles, Principal

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

  • Geometric Patterns as Architectural Forms featured image

    Geometric Patterns as Architectural Forms

    • Paper by Joshua Schultz, PhD, PE, LEED AP, Assistant Professor Neil Katz, AIA, Associate

    <p>Facade design is a key component of architectural expression, and increasingly a key design consideration due to growing importance of factors…