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  • Prototyping with Ultra-Thin Glass featured image

    Prototyping with Ultra-Thin Glass

    <p>This paper proposes system concepts and fabrication methods for the use of ultra-thin glass in facades. It documents the team's research on…

  • Smart Colored Window Technology

    Traditional architecture can be a valuable source of inspiration for designers. Sustainable design concepts in traditional architecture have been

  • Origami-Inspired Facade Design featured image

    Origami-Inspired Facade Design

    <p>To paraphrase Robert le Ricolias, the art of the structure is where to put the folds. Using that inspiration, fundamental concepts from origami,…

  • Ginza Six featured image

    Ginza Six

    <p>Tokyo’s prestigious Ginza District, is home to innovative architectural design. One of the most recent examples is Ginza Six (GSIX), the largest…

  • Adaptive Building Envelope featured image

    Adaptive Building Envelope

    <p>Designing a multi-functional building envelope as an architectural façade, environmental interface and solar collector is a multi-objective…

  • Working With Big Data featured image

    Working With Big Data

    <p>Big data is having a noticeable impact on enclosure engineering design. With continuing advancements that liberate the geometrical form and the…

  • Patchwork

    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

  • Geometric Patterns as Architectural Forms featured image

    Geometric Patterns as Architectural Forms

    <p>Facade design is a key component of architectural expression, and increasingly a key design consideration due to growing importance of factors…

  • 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

  • Prefab Facades – from Prototype to Product?

    Building envelopes are not only an immediately visible part of the building, they have also become a major factor both for cost and performance of

  • Curved Forming Panel Facades featured image

    Curved Forming Panel Facades

    <p>The performative and visual aspects of curved forming/bending thin “formable” planar materials is explored. Early tests for deflection indicate…

  • Let Thin Glass in the Facade Move featured image

    Let Thin Glass in the Facade Move

    <p>Facades play an important role in the control of energy flow and energy consumption in buildings as they represent the interface between the…

  • ETFE Membrane Envelope Strategies

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

  • BioFacades Classification

    Coauthors: Mary Ben Bonham, Department of Architecture + Interior Design, Miami University, Oxford, OH, USA [corresponding] [presenting at the

  • Translation from Concept to Construction

    Fidelity between the built enclosure and early visualizations is rarely, if ever, an accident. When achieved, it comes as the result of persistent

  • The Thermal Blanket Concept

    This paper tells the story of a Double Skin Facade (DSF), where high performance and multi-disciplinary collaboration saves a library concept of

  • Facade Design Beyond Buildings

    At the core of facade design is the concept of interdisciplinarity, a bridge between concept and materialization apt to relay a built form

  • Digital Medium, Tangible Message featured image

    Digital Medium, Tangible Message

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

  • The Butterfly featured image

    The Butterfly

    <p>Providing a unique and integral cladding/envelope solution suited for high-rise buildings has been an inherent challenge for this building…