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  • Spandrel Glass Design

    Currently, most spandrel glass in commercial curtain walls comprises insulating glass fabricated using an interior heat strengthened glass lite that

  • Thinking About Facades

    • Paper by Marc Schiler, FASES, LC

    There have been three decades of liberating developments in the application of descriptive geometry and freeform design methods, as well as the

  • Subjective Perception and Objective Measurement

    • Paper by Caroline Lama · Antonio Luz · Ashley Reed

    Current glass industry standards provide clear tolerances for readily quantifiable physical properties to assist with the evaluation of visual

  • Retrofit Options for Historic Facades

    • Paper by Carrie Davis, P.E., LEED Green Assoc. · George Kantrales, Ph.D. · Matt Barsotti · Andrew Schoenheit · Ty Vandergriff

    Building design criteria requires that government buildings be designed for a variety of extreme loads including blast, hurricane, and impact

  • Renewing Two Saarinen Icons

    • Paper by David N. Fixler, FAIA · Gary Tondorf-Dick, AIA, LEED AP · Katherine S. Wissink, PE · Matthew B. Bronski, PE

    Kresge Auditorium and the MIT Chapel, designed by Eero Saarinen and built in 1955, are both world renowned works of architecture and powerful symbols

  • Fully Tempered Glass in Spandrel Applications

    • Paper by Stéphane Hoffman, PE · Lawrence D. Carbary

    Recent years have seen an increase in the use of insulated glazing units (IGUs) in spandrel applications to visually blend the appearance between the

  • Designing Structural Laminated Glass

    • Paper by Vaughn Schauss

    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

  • Contextual Envelopes

    • Paper by Zoltan Neville

    Aesthetic and technical capabilities of facade design have become seemingly endless as building technologies progress. While the capacity to address

  • Anisotropic Effects in Architectural Glass

    • Paper by Luis M. Hidalgo · Michael Elstner

    Iridescence effects, quench marks, leopard marks… The names given to optical anisotropy in toughened and heat-strengthened glass are diverse and

  • Adaptable Glazing Shields

    • Paper by Anas Al Kassas

    Today, about 40% of all buildings in the U.S. still have single-pane windows, and ~70% of the existing building stock is estimated to suffer from

  • The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, LA

    • Paper by Roman Scheiber · Florian Meier

    Renzo Piano Building Workshop designed a 290,000 sf museum celebrating the artistry and technology of film, becoming the world’s first museum and

  • Undulated Glass Self-shading

    • Paper by Nebojsa Jakica · Mikkel K. Kragh

    The research is structured around complex optical effects of undulated glass and coatings that exhibit high reflectivity, especially at higher

  • Thermal Stress Analysis in Glass

    • Paper by Michael Elstner · Michaela Poláková · Steffen Schäfer

    The use of glass in windows and curtain walls in residential as well as in commercial buildings needs to be designed very carefully. In addition to

  • Solar Reflection Mitigation

    • Paper by Kais Al-Rawi, AIA

    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 phenomenon

  • Integrating Structure and Cladding

    • Paper by Jerome Engelking · Christian Stutzki

    The project represents a successful integration of a glass facade with the primary structure of the building. The choice of the building material is