Teaching Facades
<p>As facades become more sophisticated and complex, more detail-intensive and performance-critical, it's vital that architecture students develop a…
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Modern Heritage and Facade Improvements
<p>Approximately 80% of our total building stock is from the 20th century. During the last decades, along with an increasing appreciation of modern…
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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
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Specifying Electrochromic Glass
<p>Electrochromic (EC) glass is a seemingly magical solution to a building’s sun shading problems. A technology that was originally developed about…
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Reinforced Polymer Concrete Screen Walls
<p>Apertures is a six-story, commercial building in the Roma Norte neighborhood of Mexico City–a neighborhood severely impacted by the 1985 and 2017…
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Towards A Data Driven Fabrication Process
<p>Today's evolving digital tools allow designers to be more creative in designing new forms and geometries. Adapting similar tools to the…
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Patchwork
<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…
