Teaching Facades Paper by Alex Terzich As facades become more sophisticated and complex, more detail-intensive and performance-critical, it's vital that architecture students develop a March 14, 2018
Modern Heritage and Facade Improvements Paper by Uta Pottgiesser · Angel Ayón Approximately 80% of our total building stock is from the 20th century. During the last decades, along with an increasing appreciation of modern March 23, 2020
Carbon-Neutral High-Rise Envelope Nexus Paper by Thomas Spiegelhalter 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 December 16, 2019
Specifying Electrochromic Glass Paper by Belinda Valenti, AIA, LEED AP BD+C · Justin Glover, AIA, LEED AP BD+C Electrochromic (EC) glass is a seemingly magical solution to a building’s sun shading problems. A technology that was originally developed about March 22, 2020
Reinforced Polymer Concrete Screen Walls Paper by Brock DeSmit, Partner Jessica Hong, Lead Designer Becher Eli Neme, Principal, Founder Apertures is a six-story, commercial building in the Roma Norte neighborhood of Mexico City–a neighborhood severely impacted by the 1985 and 2017… March 17, 2020
Towards A Data Driven Fabrication Process Paper by Becher Neme · Michael Kilkelly Today's evolving digital tools allow designers to be more creative in designing new forms and geometries. Adapting similar tools to the fabrication March 14, 2018
Patchwork Paper by Alexander G. Worden, AIA 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 were March 14, 2018