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The Double Skin Facade
- Paper by Lee A. Fithian, AIA, AICP, NCARB, LEED AP,
<p>The largest source of air pollution in North America is the atmospheric boundary layer of a city caused by its urban canyons with pollutants…

March 14, 2018
Realizing Bespoke Structural Glass Facades
- Paper by Ned Kirschbaum, FAIA, CCCA, LEED AP, kirschbaum@fentressarchitects.com Peter Koukos, Director of Strategic Process Alfonso Lopez, P.E., Principal and CEO
<p>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…

January 23, 2020
Localized Rigidification of PCM Envelopes
- Paper by Elnaz Tafrihi,
<p>This is an experimental and computational exploration of structural systems that transform between states of rigidity and flexibility. The goal is…

March 14, 2018
Kinetics in Building Facades
- Paper by Sean Cullen, Professor Greg Keeffe,
<p>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,
<p>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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