Papers

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    Shadow Box Design

    • Paper by Mark Walsh,

    <p>Shadow boxes are commonly used in curtain wall construction, but can be problematic if not designed and detailed correctly and appropriately for…

  • 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

  • Novel Techniques for Facade Optimization featured image

    Novel Techniques for Facade Optimization

    • Paper by Viktoria Henriksson,

    <p>Complex freeform architectural enclosures are becoming increasingly popular and easy to model and design with the help of modern computational…

  • Fire Safety in High Rise Exterior Facades featured image

    Fire Safety in High Rise Exterior Facades

    • Paper by Angela M. Ogino,

    <p>One of the most complex yet least understood areas where fire can spread is at the perimeter of a building. Fire can not only spread from…

  • Facade Wind Loading

    • Paper by Timothy Brewer, CEng, MICE · George Kantrales, Ph.D. · Eric Sammarco, Ph.D., P.E. · Carrie Davis, P.E., LEED Green Assoc.

    Wind induced pressure is a major design consideration for building facades. However, the effects of facade geometry and urban terrain on wind loading

  • EUI of Building Clusters

    • Paper by Srinivas M. Rao, AIA, AICP, LEED AP

    Large master planned developments such as Battery Park City in Manhattan, Mission Bay in San Francisco, and Playa Vista in Los Angeles were built

  • Direct Sun and Occupant Comfort featured image

    Direct Sun and Occupant Comfort

    • Paper by Madeline Gradillas, Henry Richardson,

    <p>Direct sun on the body is a known potential cause of thermal discomfort for occupants, yet most thermal comfort simulations do not capture its…

  • Digital Medium, Tangible Message featured image

    Digital Medium, Tangible Message

    • Paper by Nathaniel Barlam,

    <p>The reaches of architecture are inherently linked to the efficacy of communication, and as emerging technology broadens the conceptual horizon of…

  • Design Digital Recipes

    • Paper by Trevor Stephen Lewis, PhD, PE · Lukasz Blonski · Jessica Chen, PE

    Precision in digital workflow is necessary to deliver facade projects where there is a high design aesthetic or structural performance requirement.

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    Design Considerations

    • Paper by Stephen M. Morse, Ph.D., Kayla Natividad, Ph.D., H. Scott Norville, P.E., Ph.D.,

    <p>Window glass design using ASTM E 1300 entails determining glass thickness(es) and types so that the window glass construction load resistance…

  • DC Water Headquarters Case Study featured image

    DC Water Headquarters Case Study

    • Paper by Sven Shockey, Leland Curtis, David Fersh,

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

  • Algorithmic Patterns for Facade Design

    • Paper by Inês Caetano · António Leitão

    Recently, building envelopes have been exhibiting complex shapes and patterns, a trend supported by current digital technologies. Likewise, the

  • Balancing Visual Comfort and Energy Efficiency featured image

    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

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

  • Mixed Reality in Facade Education featured image

    Mixed Reality in Facade Education

    • Paper by Phillip Anzalone AIA, Professor Amber Bartosh, RA LEED AP BD+C, Professor

    <p>Developments in performative computational analysis, mass customization, and complex form manipulation revolutionized building envelope design…

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    Execution Ways

    • Paper by Viswanath Urala, P.E., Senior Engineer Prakash R. Desai, P.E., S.E., Senior Structural Engineer

    <p>Business Insider has described San Francisco’s Chase Arena as setting “<em>a new standard for a sports arena in the US</em>”, and “<em>the…

  • Fire Safety and Code Challenges for Mass Timber in Curtain Wall Systems featured image

    Fire Safety and Code Challenges for Mass Timber in Curtain Wall Systems

    • Paper by David Barber, Principal John Neary, Senior Associate, Senior Facade Specialist Mic Patterson PhD LEED AP+, Ambassador of Innovation & Collaboration

    <p>With the desire for more sustainable construction and reduced embodied energy, mass timber is being explored for building structures. For medium…

  • VR For Daylight featured image

    VR For Daylight

    • Paper by Kelly Burkhart, Enclosure Technical Designer Caris Frazier-Baker, Technical Artist for Virtual Reality Sanjeev Tankha, AIA, LEED AP BD+C, Director of Enclosure Engineering

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