Facade and electric lighting integration
<p>Facades and electric lighting systems are, for the most part, still considered as separate systems throughout the design, installation,…
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Xilinx Case Study
<p>The transformation of a dark and inhumane 1970s tilt-up concrete office building into a high performance, light-filled modern workplace was…
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Separating Direct From Diffuse
<p>An Enclosure-Integrated, Daylighting, Tracking Solar Collector (EIDTSC) has been developed for market which integrates into a building’s…
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Performance Based Generative Facade Workflow for Large Scale Projects
<p>Over the last two decades, in what has been coined “The Digital Turn”, the introduction of parametric design software has afforded increased…
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Origami-Inspired Facade Design
<p>To paraphrase Robert le Ricolias, the art of the structure is where to put the folds. Using that inspiration, fundamental concepts from origami,…
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Orbit Tower
<p>While most of high-rise buildings feature a core surrounded by a spatial frame defining the volume, one could envision a column-free plan where…
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Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
<p>Steven Holl Architects designed two new buildings in the Museum District in Houston, Texas. Knippers Helbig is the facade consultant of both…
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Establishing a Life Cycle Assessment Methodology for Innovative Facade
<p>Life cycle assessment was introduced in the 1970s as an analytical tool to quantify the environmental impact of a product, process, or service.…
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Design Considerations and the Complex Facade
<p>The design of complex, high-performance facades involves balancing attention towards principles of material selection, thermal and moisture…
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DC Water Headquarters Case Study
<p>Facades must be responsive to a myriad of qualities and influences ranging from urban impact and aesthetic character to numerous performance…
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Daylighting Post-Occupancy Evaluation Study
<p>Daylighting is a key strategy to energy efficiency and improved occupant comfort, health, and productivity in buildings. However, providing…
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Daylighting Parametric Workflows Used for Adaptive Reuse
<p>Daylighting & Solar Glare control, which affect both the energy consumption of the building as well as the comfort of the occupants, become…
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Adaptive Facades
<p>Facade engineering aims at appropriately balancing the demands imposed by the context and the capabilities inherent to the materials, the…
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Undulated Glass Self-shading
<p>The research is structured around complex optical effects of undulated glass and coatings that exhibit high reflectivity, especially at higher…
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Solar Reflection Mitigation
<p>Glass by nature is a reflective material, and it is well-known and documented that issues of glare can occur due to solar reflection. This…
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Balancing Visual Comfort and Energy Efficiency
<p>With increasing interest in wellness and human-centric design in workplaces, the design of building enclosures is predicated on optimizing…
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Circadian Daylight Performance of the Electrochromic Glazing
<p>Electrochromic windows introduced to building market as a smart glare control solution to provide visual comfort for building occupant. EC glazing…
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Two Sides to Sustainability & High-performance
<p>High performance can be defined as “a building that integrates and optimizes all major high-performance building attributes, including energy…
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VR For Daylight
<p>Daylighting is often an important component of architectural design and heavily influenced by a building’s facade and enclosure systems. Unlike…
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Hydroformed Shading
<p>New approaches to lightweight metal forming have the potential to advance architectural fabrication, particularly in the design and engineering of…
