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Passive House Facade Design and Construction
- Paper by Louis Koehl, AIA, CPHD, Project Architect
Buildings account for over 40% of global emissions (GlobalABC, 2018). Growing populations and higher standards of living are increasing pressure on…
March 22, 2020
Orbit Tower
- Paper by Enrica Oliva · Michele Andaloro · Werner Sobek
While most of high-rise buildings feature a core surrounded by a spatial frame defining the volume, one could envision a column-free plan where the

March 14, 2018
Embodied Carbon Of Timber Unitized Curtain Wall
- Paper by Isabelle Hens, LEED AP BD+C, WELL AP, EIT · Sophie Pennetier · Simon Schleicher
The building envelope is at the intersection of embodied and operational emissions. Curtain wall specifically could play an important role in

October 11, 2022
Window in Wall: Back to the Future
- Paper by Thomas Auer, Ata Chokhachian,
In order to get to a carbon neutral building stock – which is e.g. required by the EU Carbon roadmap by 2050 – our efforts need to be smart and…
March 22, 2020
The Vertical Campus Facade
- Paper by Mayine Yu, AIA, Principal | Davis Brody Bond / Page Cooper Schilling, AIA, LEED AP BD+C, Principal | KieranTimberlake Jessica Young, RA, Principal
Case study of the recently opened John A. Paulson Center for New York University in Manhattan reviews design solutions of façade depth and scale to…
September 2, 2024
Mixed Reality in Facade Education
- Paper by Phillip Anzalone AIA, Professor Amber Bartosh, RA LEED AP BD+C, Professor
Developments in performative computational analysis, mass customization, and complex form manipulation revolutionized building envelope design…
March 22, 2020
A Break From The Past: How the Guggenheim Renovation Made Thermally Broken Steel Windows a New Normal
- Article by Angel Ayón, AIA, NCARB, NOMA, LEED AP, Principal
March 07, 2024
Establishing a Life Cycle Assessment Methodology for Innovative Facade
- Paper by Vikki Lew
Life cycle assessment was introduced in the 1970s as an analytical tool to quantify the environmental impact of a product, process, or service.

March 14, 2018
Unitized Curtain Wall
- Paper by Brian Masuda, Kathleen Kulpa, Margaret Tyrpa,
Unitized curtain wall has become ubiquitous in contemporary facade design and construction due to advantages associated with speed of erection, lower…
March 14, 2018
Architectural Ceramic Assemblies
- Paper by Omar Khan · Bill Pottle · Mitchell Bring
This paper documents a six year academia/industry collaboration between researchers at the Department of Architecture, University at Buffalo (SUNY)

March 14, 2018
Adaptive Facades
- Paper by Walter Haase, Werner Sobek, Enrica Oliva, Michele Andaloro,
Facade engineering aims at appropriately balancing the demands imposed by the context and the capabilities inherent to the materials, the geometries…
March 12, 2018
Green Façade/Roofs Design Tool
- Paper by Abolfazl Ganji Kheybari · Morteza Kasravi
Climate change and related thermal issues, draw attention to the impact of green facades and roofs on energy savings and thermal comfort. Besides, by

October 11, 2022
Teaching Facades
- Paper by Alex Terzich,
As facades become more sophisticated and complex, more detail-intensive and performance-critical, it's vital that architecture students develop a…
March 14, 2018
Mastery of Measurement
- Paper by Joshua Zabel,
The conventional approach to specifying dimensional tolerances in architecture and construction is inadequate in the theater of premanufacturing…
September 2, 2024