Papers

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  • Design Principles For Museum Daylight Systems featured image

    Design Principles For Museum Daylight Systems

    • Paper by Edgar Stach, PhD, Professor, Director Michael Esposito, Senior Building Analyst

    <p>This research unlocks the relationship between space, structure and light in nine unique museums developed by architect Renzo Piano. Renzo Piano…

  • Adaptive Reuse of Industrial Heritage Façades

    • Paper by Bahar Basarir, PhD, PhD from Research Assistant to Assistant Professor Hatice Yasemin Cakir, Research Assistant

    <p>With the developments in production, industrial facilities lost their function and were abandoned over time. The most frequent and often the most…

  • ETFE Membrane Envelope Strategies

    • Paper by Audrey L Worden, ISSF · Kihong R. Ku, DDes · Alexander G. Worden, RA NCARB

    Airflow within the cavity of double-skin facades is a key component of adaptive building envelopes which change thermophysical properties to meet

  • Rethinking Building Skins featured image

    Rethinking Building Skins

    • Paper by Eugenia Gasparri, Lecturer in Architectural Technologies Arianna Brambilla, Senior Lecturer in Architecture Gabriele Lobaccaro, Associate Professor in Solar Design and Building Performance Simulation Francesco Goia, Professor of Building Physics Annalisa Andaloro, Senior Researcher Alberto Sangiorgio, Principal Façade Engineer

    <p>Building skins play a pivotal role in architecture. Other than the aesthetical and architectural aspects, facades are key to the climate…

  • Modeling Megapanels featured image

    Modeling Megapanels

    • Paper by Elizabeth Bishop, AIA, LEED AP, Creative Design Director Emily Green, NCARB, LEED GA, Associate Lisa Podesto, PE, Timber & Innovations Specialist

    <p>Large format, steel-stud framed “megapanel” facades with rainscreen cladding create uniquely complicated requirements for digital documentation…

  • Facade Technology in Educational Methodology featured image

    Facade Technology in Educational Methodology

    • Paper by Roger Schroeder, Lecturer Joseph A. Ebert, Professor

    <p>With facades becoming increasingly more complex, and performance a key objective, expertise becomes an important component of successful design…

  • Laminated Security Glazing

    • Paper by Vaughn Schauss,

    <p>Glass is an essential component for any type of building. Its transparency enhances daylighting and provides occupants a view to the outside.…

  • 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…

  • Addressing Embodied Carbon featured image

    Addressing Embodied Carbon

    • Paper by Helen Sanders, PhD, General Manager Adam Nizich, Senior Consulting Engineer

    <p>Reducing greenhouse gas emissions from the building sector is critical to limiting global temperature rise to less than 1.5⁰C. Construction and…

  • Bringing an Icon Into the Future: Willis Tower featured image

    Bringing an Icon Into the Future: Willis Tower

    • Paper by Stephen Katz, Technical Director

    <p>Few buildings are as iconic as Willis Tower. Generations of Chicagoans have a collective memory of this building playing a role in their entire…

  • Contextualizing Glass and Carbon Impacts

    • Paper by Kayla Natividad, PhD, WELL AP, LEED Green Associate, Architectural Technical Service Engineer Kyle Sword, Manager Business Development

    <p>Climate change goals will require significant improvements in the way buildings are constructed and operated. Building reuse can combat climate…

  • Advances in Laminated Glass Engineering

    • Paper by Richard Green PE (WA, NY, TX, CO, OR, MT), M.IEAUST CPEng, NER(Aus), APEC Engineer, IntPE(Aus), RBP(Vic), Principal - Owner

    <p>The stability of monolithic glass fins is reasonably well defined; as an elastic material it behaves in a similar manner to other elastic…

  • The Craft of Building Enclosures featured image

    The Craft of Building Enclosures

    • Paper by Christopher Payne, AIA, LEED AP, Senior Project Architect

    <p>This paper will provide case studies of two high-performance building envelopes in the San Francisco Bay Area where the fabrication of bespoke…

  • Condensation Study of Windows featured image

    Condensation Study of Windows

    • Paper by Ajla Aksamija, Professor and Chair Suncica Milosevic, PhD Student Helen Sanders, General Manager Alexandra Blakeslee, Innovation & Projects

    <p>This paper discusses a simulation study of different window systems, where heat transfer simulations were performed to investigate thermal…

  • Advances in Effective Thickness featured image

    Advances in Effective Thickness

    • Paper by Adam J Nizich, P.E., Senior Consulting Engineer Andrea M. La Greca, P.E., Consulting Engineer Laura Galuppi, PhD, Assistant Professor of Solid and Structural Mechanics

    <p>Effective thickness is a simplified method for the structural evaluation of laminated glass section properties. The method consists of defining…

  • Facing Density

    • Paper by Wendy Cox,

    <p>The United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs projects a world population growth of over three billion over our current, nearly…

  • Glass Spandrels and Shadow Boxes featured image

    Glass Spandrels and Shadow Boxes

    • Paper by John Jackson,

    <p>Glass spandrels are a common design strategy utilized to opacify floor levels in building facades. These opaque glass assemblies are integrated…

  • The Myth of Simplicity featured image

    The Myth of Simplicity

    • Paper by Gerry Lang,

    <p>There were good why reasons early US Modernism first evolved in California– wide open sites with no constraints (physical or zoning), and…