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  • A circular approach to facade design

    The built environment has a significant impact on our natural environment, depleting non-renewable resources, overwhelming landfill sites, and

  • The Aesthetics of Big Tech

    The San Francisco Bay Area is synonymous with leading edge technology and innovation. Many of the biggest and wealthiest tech giants have huge

  • Tree Magic - The Overstory

    In this Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Richard Powers a series of fables is woven through a narrative populated by an expansive cast of unlikely characters, trees paramount among them; one a giant redwood named Mimas. Redwoods can live for thousands of years and grow to well over 300 feet tall.

  • Explore the top papers from the 2020 World Congress

    • Announcement

    Each week leading up to the 2020 World Congress, we will announce one of the four winning authors, selected from the 118 papers to be presented at the virtual event, and releasing an interview with them on our SKINS Podcast.

  • Terracotta 1912 to 2018 featured image

    Terracotta 1912 to 2018

    • Paper by Carol Loewenson, FAIA, LEED AP, Stephen Dietz, AIA, LEED AP,

    <p>Center Three is a 100-year-old, one million square-foot building in Long Island City, New York that was constructed over the course of one year.…

  • A Compact, Unitized Double Skin Facade

    • Paper by Alex Cox, LEED AP · James Hock, LEED AP BD+C · Laura Ziegler · Karin Lamberts

    Driven by an increasing demand for high thermal and acoustic performance, transparency, and low maintenance costs, a number of facade innovations

  • Shade and Spectacle

    • Paper by Warren Techentin, FAIA, NCARB, LEED

    This paper will look at the different facades of the Elysian Fields apartment building designed by Warren Techentin Architecture [WTARCH] and

  • Infinite Panel System

    • Paper by Mike Ryan · Brian Stern · Michael Adams

    Today, building facades are expected to do much more than merely provide shelter, which is driving the need for higher performing envelope solutions.

  • End-of-Life Challenges in Facade Design

    • Paper by Rebecca Hartwell · Mauro Overend

    In recent decades, there has been increased attention to reduce the operational energy performance of buildings. Stringent legislation on building

  • 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

  • Two Sides to Sustainability & High-performance

    • Paper by Brian Fraumeni · Julia Ragragio Ruiz, LEED AP BD+C · Adam Moqrane

    High performance can be defined as “a building that integrates and optimizes all major high-performance building attributes, including energy

  • 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

  • Hydroformed Shading

    • Paper by Michelle Siu-Ching Lee · Robert Matthew Noblett · Roman Schieber

    New approaches to lightweight metal forming have the potential to advance architectural fabrication, particularly in the design and engineering of

  • Green Wall Rainscreen

    • Paper by Stephan Wurster · Till Jackenkroll

    Green Wall applications are growing in popularity around the world. Often thought of as a decorative element they provide much more than aesthetic

  • Detailing For Distance

    • Paper by Daniel Kelso

    Quickly exceeding new facade service life expectations for tall buildings imposed by increasing environmental, economic, and social pressures have