Papers

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  Shaping Skin

  • Paper by John Neary AIA LEED AP NCARB, Sr. Associate

  <p>The conventional modern facade is essentially flat, which creates the tendency toward visual monotony and problems for modulating daylight—both on…

  March 21, 2020
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  Managing Solar Reflections from the Building Envelope

  • Paper by Ryan Danks, B.A.Sc., P.Eng., Senior Engineer Joel Good, M.A.Sc., P.Eng., Principal

  <p>Understanding how a building will reflect sunlight has gone from a rare requirement to a key consideration during the planning permission process…

  January 29, 2020
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  Designing with Photovoltaics

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

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

  March 15, 2020
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  Multi-domain Assessment of a Kinetic Facade

  • Paper by Kunyo Luo, Master of Building Science Karen Kensek, LEED AP BD+C, DPACSA, Professor of Practice Marc Schiler, FASES, Professor

  <p>An assessment workflow was created to simulate and evaluate the performance of a kinetic facade in an interior space. It includes parameters of…

  June 10, 2020
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  Invert Auto-Shading

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

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

  March 15, 2020
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  Heat-actuated Auxetic Facades

  • Paper by Amira Abdel-Rahman, Elnaz Tafrihi,

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

  March 14, 2018