Towards A Data Driven Fabrication Process
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
Advanced fabrication processes combined with parametric 3D modeling give designers and architects the freedom and versatility to push the boundaries… -
Prototyping with Ultra-Thin Glass
This paper proposes system concepts and fabrication methods for the use of ultra-thin glass in facades. It documents the team's research on
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Hydroformed Shading
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
This paper will provide case studies of two high-performance building envelopes in the San Francisco Bay Area where the fabrication of bespoke façade… -
Effective Facade Modularization
Facade systems of various transparent and opaque materials and systems are increasingly becoming integrated components of modularized facade… -
Working With Big Data
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
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
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
In 2014, the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) approved the Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute (PCI) as an accredited ANSI Standards
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Stainless Steel 101
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
Double Skin Facades (DSF), constructed from individual aluminum framed curtain wall assemblies, provide a means of achieving acoustic and thermal… -
Digital Medium, Tangible Message
The reaches of architecture are inherently linked to the efficacy of communication, and as emerging technology broadens the conceptual horizon of the… -
Digital Enablement for Manufacturing
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
Finishing of custom-fabricated architectural façade components represents one of the most significant components to their cost. Manually driven… -
Differentiated Building Skin
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
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
The Carapace Pavilion is a university-based, design-build, full-scale custom prototype for a possible replacement of the standard precast concrete… -
Managing Constraints
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
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…