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  • 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

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    Detailing For Distance

    <p>Quickly exceeding new facade service life expectations for tall buildings imposed by increasing environmental, economic, and social pressures have…

  • Reconfigurable Terracotta Facade

    The traditional building facade as a permanent construction does not actively respond to the differing needs from varying weather conditions.

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    Two Sides to Sustainability & High-performance

    <p>High performance can be defined as “a building that integrates and optimizes all major high-performance building attributes, including energy…

  • Structuring Skin

    Curtain wall is the prevailing type of enclosure on modern buildings because of its economy, its independence from structure that allows flexibility

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    Orientation Specific Solar Control

    <p>During the postwar era, and before the universal adoption of air-conditioning in the United States, leading architects participated in the design…

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    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…

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    Digital Lifecycle of Building Envelopes

    <p>“The digital transformation will change everything” – with this quote in mind a deep look into the current facade business will be given with a…

  • Undulated Glass Self-shading

    The research is structured around complex optical effects of undulated glass and coatings that exhibit high reflectivity, especially at higher

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    Shape Memory Alloy Activated Shading

    <p>A novel shading device for facade application was developed by combining innovative geometry elements (twisting cylinders) with a smart use of…

  • Climate-Oriented Prefabricated Building Envelopes

    Facades developed in response to climactic factors increase performance and human comfort while reducing energy loads. A single building envelope

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    Active and Energy Autonomous Window

    <p>Reducing GHG emissions related to energy use in buildings is a prominent obligation given their impact in terms of climate change. In this light,…