Papers

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  • Towards A Data Driven Fabrication Process

    • Paper by Becher Neme · Michael Kilkelly

    Today's evolving digital tools allow designers to be more creative in designing new forms and geometries. Adapting similar tools to the fabrication

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    United States Olympic and Paralympic Museum

    • Paper by Ilja Aljoskin PMP, Project Manager Lee Pepin, Director of Virtual Design & Construction Neil Meredith RA, Modeler

    <p>Advanced fabrication processes combined with parametric 3D modeling give designers and architects the freedom and versatility to push the…

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    Prototyping with Ultra-Thin Glass

    • Paper by Sophie Pennetier, Associate Director - Specialty Design Josephine Stoddard, Master of Building Science, Structural and Environmental Analysis and Design Karen Kensek, Professor

    <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…

  • Hydroformed Shading

    • Paper by Michelle Siu-Ching Lee · Robert Matthew Noblett · Roman Schieber

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

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    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…

  • Effective Facade Modularization

    • Paper by Kais Al-Rawi

    Facade systems of various transparent and opaque materials and systems are increasingly becoming integrated components of modularized facade

  • Working With Big Data

    • Paper by Cristobal Correa

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

  • Case Study: Renovation of Fountain Place

    • Paper by Alfonso Lopez P.E. · David Dunham P.E · Diarmuid Kelleher P.E., S.E.

    Fountain Place is a project that exemplifies the latest technology and applications in building skin design and jumbo structural glass applications,

  • Localized Rigidification of PCM Envelopes

    • Paper by Elnaz Tafrihi

    This is an experimental and computational exploration of structural systems that transform between states of rigidity and flexibility. The goal is to

  • More Than a Facade

    • Paper by Edward Losch · Marc Maguire

    In 2014, the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) approved the Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute (PCI) as an accredited ANSI Standards

  • Stainless Steel 101

    • Paper by Michael Mulhern

    This paper presents a summary of the industry advances beyond T304 and T316 austenitic stainless steels. The greater availability of precipitation

  • Unitized Cavity Wall Design and Implementation

    • Paper by Dan Bettenhausen, Ph.D., Director of Mechanical Engineering

    <p>Double Skin Facades (DSF), constructed from individual aluminum framed curtain wall assemblies, provide a means of achieving acoustic and thermal…

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    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…

  • Digital Enablement for Manufacturing

    • Paper by Melody Rees

    Architectural design freedom achieved on high-end projects currently costs over $1,000/sq. Ft. Building materials have long been relegated to plane

  • Honing the Craft

    • Paper by Patrick Delorey

    Finishing of custom-fabricated architectural façade components represents one of the most significant components to their cost. Manually driven

  • Differentiated Building Skin

    • Paper by James Warton

    The Los Angeles Stadium’s doubly curved skin is composed of over 35,000 unique triangular panels covering 296,502 square feet of surface area. The

  • 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

  • The Carapace Pavilion

    • Paper by Douglas Noble, PhD, FAIA · Karen M. Kensek, DPACSA

    The Carapace Pavilion is a university-based, design-build, full-scale custom prototype for a possible replacement of the standard precast concrete

  • Managing Constraints

    • Paper by Vincent IP, LEED AP BD+C

    On a commercial high-rise tower project located in Hong Kong, the design team was challenged to make a facade that would beneficial to tenants with a

  • Developments in Gridshell Design

    • Paper by Cristobal Correa P.E. · Craig Schwitter P.E.

    In 1959 Heinz Isler challenged the world of concrete shell design by proposing a series of shapes for shells that were very different from what most