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
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Mapping Advanced Facades
This paper describes the development of an interactive map that highlights case studies of advanced facade design strategies and technologies from
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Exploring Interoperability between Rhino and Revit through Rhino.inside
This paper presents a comprehensive interoperability workflow achieved between Rhino and Revit through Rhino-Inside. The study focuses on two case
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Printed Facades?
While additive manufacturing (AM) offers unprecedented freedom of design and a remarkable potential for material efficiency and lightweight
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Passively Actuated Systems
Kinetic or responsive facades have been developed to improve buildings' daylighting conditions while mitigating energy consumption. Still, these… -
Origami-Inspired Facade Design
To paraphrase Robert le Ricolias, the art of the structure is where to put the folds. Using that inspiration, fundamental concepts from origami,
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A Study on the Impact of Hospital Facade Opening Focusing Outdoor Exposure on Waiting Room Experience
The paper will try to study the impact of window opening on waiting room experience of patients in an eye hospital along with their attendants. As… -
Innovative Façades for a Sustainable Architecture
Facades play a relevant role in the search for a more sustainable approach to modern architecture. The amount of embodied and operational energy can
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Circadian Daylight Performance of the Electrochromic Glazing
Electrochromic windows introduced to building market as a smart glare control solution to provide visual comfort for building occupant. EC glazing… -
Historical Evolution of Responsive Facades
Responsive facade system is considered a major component of high-performance building envelope that is capable of responding to environmental stimuli… -
Let Thin Glass in the Facade Move
Facades play an important role in the control of energy flow and energy consumption in buildings as they represent the interface between the outdoor… -
Facade Expansion Joint Systems
As awareness around the seismic performance of buildings grows, it is becoming increasingly necessary to integrate seismic expansion joint cover… -
Dynamic Shading Device
Responsive shading systems can dynamically improve indoor environmental conditions based on outdoor climate variations. Among the technologies,… -
Breathing Lessons
For a new corporate headquarters in San Francisco’s Mission Bay district, SHoP Architects designed a semi-conditioned atrium space inside the
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Design of Double Curved Self Spanning Horizontal Laminated Glass
There is a desire in architecture to design and achieve transparent canopies and glazed rooves that are free from the visual clutter and the
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Kinetic Solar Envelope
Kinetic responsive systems are gaining attention in architectural applications, to reduce the building’s energy consumption and environmental impact,… -
Corrugated-geometry Copper and Glass Facade
The subject of this case study is the design and construction of a custom corrugated-geometry facade featuring pre-patinated copper and glass for an
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Contextual Envelopes
Aesthetic and technical capabilities of facade design have become seemingly endless as building technologies progress. While the capacity to address
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Delivering Beauty
Amidst the critical conversations about the need to build better and more efficient building skins, designers are also mindful of the need for the… -
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