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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
With increasing interest in wellness and human-centric design in workplaces, the design of building enclosures is predicated on optimizing competing…
March 19, 2020
Mixed Reality in Facade Education
- Paper by Phillip Anzalone AIA · Amber Bartosh, RA LEED AP BD+C
Developments in performative computational analysis, mass customization, and complex form manipulation revolutionized building envelope design

March 22, 2020
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…
March 20, 2020
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

March 20, 2020
Geometric Patterns as Architectural Forms
- Paper by Joshua Schultz, PhD, PE, LEED AP · Neil Katz, AIA
Facade design is a key component of architectural expression, and increasingly a key design consideration due to growing importance of factors like:

January 21, 2020
Building by Numbers
- Paper by Trevor Stephen Lewis PhD | PE | FRSA, Principal
This paper outlines the successful implementation of digital workflows between the design team composed of Architect, Structural Engineer and Project…
March 15, 2020
Invert Auto-Shading
- Paper by Jae Yong Suk, Assistant Professor Doris Sung, Associate Professor
Allowing sufficient amount of natural light while avoiding excessive sunlight penetration is often hard to achieve with static facade systems due to…
March 15, 2020