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  • Mapping Advanced Facades

    • Paper by David Russell Lehrer · Vito Lamberti

    This paper describes the development of an interactive map that highlights case studies of advanced facade design strategies and technologies from

  • Reconfigurable Terracotta Facades

    • Article by Jin Young Song · Dan Vrana · Jonathan Hopp · Shawn Murrey · Jiatao Wu · Jongmin Shim

    This study, completed by an interdisciplinary team from the University of Buffalo and Alfred University explores a thermal mass application using terracotta blocks that can be reconfigured for different seasons.

  • Renewing Historic Facades

    • Paper by Christine Reynolds, PE · Hans Thummel, AIA, LEED AP BD+C

    As the first phase of a $4 billion dollar, 180-acre, 60 building government preservation project in Washington DC, this case study reviews the

  • Carbon Lean Facades

    • Paper by Stefanie Schober · Jonce Walker, LEED AP, Certified Sustainable Building Advisor, and Fitwel Ambassador

    With net zero and carbon neutral mandates on the near horizon, New York City has pushed the green building envelope by leveraging incentive-based

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    Growing Myceliated Facades

    • Paper by Thibaut Houette, M. Arch., Integrated Bioscience PhD student Brian Foresi, Biomedical Sciences (BS/MD) student Christopher Maurer, AIA, NCARB, Founder and Principal Architect Dr. Petra Gruber, Assoc. Prof.
    Today's sustainability in architecture takes into consideration the complete life cycle of buildings and their components, from resource harvesting…

  • Thinking About Facades

    • Paper by Marc Schiler, FASES, LC

    There have been three decades of liberating developments in the application of descriptive geometry and freeform design methods, as well as the

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    Multi Layer Facades

    • Paper by Robert Moisy,
    The history of high performance facades and glazing has been a tale of attempting to manage the conflicting requirements of, on one hand inviting…

  • New Challenges – New Facades!

    Being part of the European Façade Network efn, an association of ten research and education entities throughout Europe, I would like to share my experiences of last year’s conferences and research activities with this brief contribution.

  • Heat-actuated Auxetic Facades

    • Paper by Amira Abdel-Rahman · Elnaz Tafrihi

    Highly transformable materials can be used as adaptive exterior shading systems by leveraging the relationship between external stimuli (heat) and

  • All-Glass Bearing Facades

    • Paper by Erwin ten Brincke

    The Green Village at the TU Delft is a living lab for sustainable innovations. The Co Creation Centre (CCC) will be their new meeting center (13.5 x

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    Kinetics in Building Facades

    • Paper by Sean Cullen, Professor Greg Keeffe,
    The prominence of climatically responsive building facades through the use of kinetics has proliferated in recent years due to a concern for the…

  • Curved Forming Panel Facades

    • Paper by Roger Schroeder

    The performative and visual aspects of curved forming/bending thin “formable” planar materials is explored. Early tests for deflection indicate that

  • EVA Interlayers in Hardened Facades

    • Paper by Nicholas Oberts, PE · Mark K. Weaver, PE, SE · Phillip Benshoof, PE

    Explosions can result in very high loads of extremely short durations. Protective design to mitigate the effects of blast loading requires façade

  • Thermal Bridging and Building Facades

    Ivan Lee, a Building Science Consultant at Morrison Hershfield recognizes the importance of mitigating thermal bridging to meet low energy targets for buildings. He points out that many jurisdictions are starting to incorporate thermal bridging into their codes and standards