Papers

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  • Balancing Visual Comfort and Energy Efficiency featured image

    Balancing Visual Comfort and Energy Efficiency

    • Paper by Berardo Matalucci PhD, Director, Environmental Design Edward Palka AIA LEED AP BD+C, Designer Jennifer Siqueira LEED AP, Associate Jenny Lin, Associate Coles Jennings PE, BEMP, LEED AP BD+C, Sr. Energy and Sustainability Engineer Alex Chapin, Energy Engineer II Sameer Kumar AIA, Director, Enclosure Design Nadine Bergen AIA LEED AP, Project Director Christopher Sharples AIA, Principal

    <p>With increasing interest in wellness and human-centric design in workplaces, the design of building enclosures is predicated on optimizing…

  • Mixed Reality in Facade Education featured image

    Mixed Reality in Facade Education

    • Paper by Phillip Anzalone AIA, Professor Amber Bartosh, RA LEED AP BD+C, Professor

    <p>Developments in performative computational analysis, mass customization, and complex form manipulation revolutionized building envelope design…

  • 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

  • Optimized Adaptive Re-Use

    • Paper by Matthew Parker · John Souleles

    Contemporary building practice represents a disconnect between traditional manufacturing techniques, that favor straight runs and orthogonal

  • Corrugated-geometry Copper and Glass Facade featured image

    Corrugated-geometry Copper and Glass Facade

    • Paper by Marko Tomsic, PE, Project Consultant John A. Jackson, AIA, Senior Project Manager

    <p>The subject of this case study is the design and construction of a custom corrugated-geometry facade featuring pre-patinated copper and glass for…

  • Geometric Patterns as Architectural Forms featured image

    Geometric Patterns as Architectural Forms

    • Paper by Joshua Schultz, PhD, PE, LEED AP, Assistant Professor Neil Katz, AIA, Associate

    <p>Facade design is a key component of architectural expression, and increasingly a key design consideration due to growing importance of factors…

  • Building by Numbers featured image

    Building by Numbers

    • Paper by Trevor Stephen Lewis PhD | PE | FRSA, Principal

    <p>This paper outlines the successful implementation of digital workflows between the design team composed of Architect, Structural Engineer and…

  • Adaptive Building Envelope featured image

    Adaptive Building Envelope

    • Paper by Abolfazl Ganji Kheybari, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Art and Architecture, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran Jochen Lam,

    <p>Designing a multi-functional building envelope as an architectural façade, environmental interface and solar collector is a multi-objective…

  • Performance-based Facade Framework featured image

    Performance-based Facade Framework

    • Paper by Mahsa Minaei, Ph.D. Candidate-Author Ajla Aksamija, Associate Professor-Co Author

    <p>Buildings have a considerable impact on the environment, and it is crucial to consider environmental and energy performance in building design.…

  • Elliptical Ways

    • Paper by Gustav Fagerström · Lia Tramontini · Kelly Burkhart · Jianing Song · Sanjeev Tankha

    Construction projects almost invariably encounter a critical stage at the moment of handover between the designing and the executing party. At this

  • Climate-Oriented Prefabricated Building Envelopes featured image

    Climate-Oriented Prefabricated Building Envelopes

    • Paper by Sridharan Gandhi, Andrew Tsay Jacobs, AIA, EIT, LEED AP BD+C, Karen Kensek, Assoc. AIA, LEED AP BD+C,

    <p>Facades developed in response to climactic factors increase performance and human comfort while reducing energy loads. A single building envelope…

  • Verifying Thermal Performance featured image

    Verifying Thermal Performance

    • Paper by Matthew Herman, Mark Walsh,

    <p>Architects specify curtain wall thermal performance criteria and usually identify simple modeling software, like THERM, to perform thermal…

  • Working With Big Data featured image

    Working With Big Data

    • Paper by Cristobal Correa,

    <p>Big data is having a noticeable impact on enclosure engineering design. With continuing advancements that liberate the geometrical form and the…

  • The Thermal Blanket Concept

    • Paper by Bharat Patel, PE, CEM, LEED AP · Michael Bulander, AIA, LEED AP

    This paper tells the story of a Double Skin Facade (DSF), where high performance and multi-disciplinary collaboration saves a library concept of

  • 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

  • Patchwork featured image

    Patchwork

    • Paper by Alexander G. Worden, AIA,

    <p>It may be difficult for modern man to believe that what is known as handicraft was once the advanced manufacturing of the day. These techniques…

  • Novel Techniques for Facade Optimization featured image

    Novel Techniques for Facade Optimization

    • Paper by Viktoria Henriksson,

    <p>Complex freeform architectural enclosures are becoming increasingly popular and easy to model and design with the help of modern computational…

  • Invert Auto-Shading featured image

    Invert Auto-Shading

    • Paper by Jae Yong Suk, Assistant Professor Doris Sung, Associate Professor

    <p>Allowing sufficient amount of natural light while avoiding excessive sunlight penetration is often hard to achieve with static facade systems due…

  • 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