Fire Safety in Facade Design
During the last century together with growing construction technology and modern architectural trends, the number of high rise buildings and…
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Influence of Performance and Design of Structural Silicone Joints on the Resilience of Curtain Wall Units Exposed to Seismic Impacts
Facade failure due to seismic event represents a potential hazard to people and can cause serious damages to buildings with consequent high-cost… -
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… -
Performance Criteria for Museum Enclosure Design
This paper develops a framework of considerations for the development of project specific performance criteria for the design of art museums and… -
End-of-Life Challenges in Facade Design
In recent decades, there has been increased attention to reduce the operational energy performance of buildings. Stringent legislation on building… -
Airflow Network Analysis and Control Strategy Design for Toronto High Rise
The development of a user-controllable natural ventilation scheme for a 12-story academic building in Toronto required the analysis of a complex… -
Emulating Nature's Structured Randomness in Facade Design
The wonder of nature is the abundance of unique forms she creates based on a few simple physical principles or laws. No two snowflakes are alike.
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Determination of Interlayer Structural Properties for Use in Laminated Glass Design
We have seen rapid expansion in the last decade of laminated glass design using modern analytical and computational methods. Essential to the proper… -
International Facade Education
Globalization in the construction industry has brought about new demands for buildings and construction projects, new demands that still need to take… -
Architectural Ceramic Assemblies
This paper documents a six year academia/industry collaboration between researchers at the Department of Architecture, University at Buffalo (SUNY)
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Carbon-Neutral High-Rise Envelope Nexus
The pathway to carbon-neutrality, as urged during the COP 21 in Paris, and the repeated goal for resilient buildings and urban habitats, winds right… -
Balancing Visual Comfort and Energy Efficiency
With increasing interest in wellness and human-centric design in workplaces, the design of building enclosures is predicated on optimizing competing
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Mixed Reality in Facade Education
Developments in performative computational analysis, mass customization, and complex form manipulation revolutionized building envelope design… -
Two Sides to Sustainability & High-performance
High performance can be defined as “a building that integrates and optimizes all major high-performance building attributes, including energy… -
Execution Ways
Business Insider has described San Francisco’s Chase Arena as setting “a new standard for a sports arena in the US”, and “the state-of-the-art arena… -
Fire Safety and Code Challenges for Mass Timber in Curtain Wall Systems
With the desire for more sustainable construction and reduced embodied energy, mass timber is being explored for building structures. For medium and… -
Influence of Facade Materials on the Acoustic Environment
Urban noise pollution is a major environmental health problem. International organizations are making efforts to prevent health damage due to high… -
VR For Daylight
Daylighting is often an important component of architectural design and heavily influenced by a building’s facade and enclosure systems. Unlike many… -
Hydroformed Shading
New approaches to lightweight metal forming have the potential to advance architectural fabrication, particularly in the design and engineering of… -
Optimized Adaptive Re-Use
Contemporary building practice represents a disconnect between traditional manufacturing techniques, that favor straight runs and orthogonal
