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The Double Skin Facade
- Paper by Lee A. Fithian, AIA, AICP, NCARB, LEED AP,
The largest source of air pollution in North America is the atmospheric boundary layer of a city caused by its urban canyons with pollutants produced…
March 14, 2018
Realizing Bespoke Structural Glass Facades
- Paper by Ned Kirschbaum, FAIA, CCCA, LEED AP · Peter Koukos · Alfonso Lopez, P.E.
In the very earliest stages of a design, an architect imagines a unique glazed facade form and wonders, “Is this possible?” and “What will it cost?”

January 23, 2020
Localized Rigidification of PCM Envelopes
- Paper by Elnaz Tafrihi,
This is an experimental and computational exploration of structural systems that transform between states of rigidity and flexibility. The goal is to…
March 14, 2018
Kinetics in Building Facades
- Paper by Sean Cullen, Professor Greg Keeffe,
The prominence of climatically responsive building facades through the use of kinetics has proliferated in recent years due to a concern for the…
March 14, 2018
Evaluating Additive Manufacturing for Metallic Facade Components
- Paper by Natasa Mrazovic, M. Arch. Eng., M.C.E., Martin Fischer,
The state-of-the-art of Additive Manufacturing (AM), popularly known as 3D printing, shows its prospective future in the…
March 14, 2018
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

March 14, 2018

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