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  • DC Water Headquarters Case Study featured image

    DC Water Headquarters Case Study

    <p>Facades must be responsive to a myriad of qualities and influences ranging from urban impact and aesthetic character to numerous performance…

  • Daylighting Post-Occupancy Evaluation Study

    Daylighting is a key strategy to energy efficiency and improved occupant comfort, health, and productivity in buildings. However, providing desired

  • Adaptive Facades

    Facade engineering aims at appropriately balancing the demands imposed by the context and the capabilities inherent to the materials, the geometries

  • Undulated Glass Self-shading

    The research is structured around complex optical effects of undulated glass and coatings that exhibit high reflectivity, especially at higher

  • Solar Reflection Mitigation featured image

    Solar Reflection Mitigation

    <p>Glass by nature is a reflective material, and it is well-known and documented that issues of glare can occur due to solar reflection. This…

  • Balancing Visual Comfort and Energy Efficiency featured image

    Balancing Visual Comfort and Energy Efficiency

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

  • Two Sides to Sustainability & High-performance

    High performance can be defined as “a building that integrates and optimizes all major high-performance building attributes, including energy

  • VR For Daylight

    Daylighting is often an important component of architectural design and heavily influenced by a building’s facade and enclosure systems. Unlike many

  • Hydroformed Shading

    New approaches to lightweight metal forming have the potential to advance architectural fabrication, particularly in the design and engineering of

  • Shaping Skin

    The conventional modern facade is essentially flat, which creates the tendency toward visual monotony and problems for modulating daylight—both on

  • Managing Solar Reflections from the Building Envelope featured image

    Managing Solar Reflections from the Building Envelope

    <p>Understanding how a building will reflect sunlight has gone from a rare requirement to a key consideration during the planning permission process…

  • Designing with Photovoltaics

    Photovoltaics (PV) have been utilized in buildings for decades, especially in Europe where legislative support has largely driven the market. With

  • Multi-domain Assessment of a Kinetic Facade featured image

    Multi-domain Assessment of a Kinetic Facade

    <p>An assessment workflow was created to simulate and evaluate the performance of a kinetic facade in an interior space. It includes parameters of…

  • Invert Auto-Shading

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

  • Heat-actuated Auxetic Facades

    Highly transformable materials can be used as adaptive exterior shading systems by leveraging the relationship between external stimuli (heat) and