Designing Structural Laminated Glass
<p>Laminated glass with standard PVB has long been used for safety and security due to its ability to adhere the broken glass fragments together. As…
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Design Digital Recipes
<p>Precision in digital workflow is necessary to deliver facade projects where there is a high design aesthetic or structural performance…
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Design Considerations and the Complex Facade
<p>The design of complex, high-performance facades involves balancing attention towards principles of material selection, thermal and moisture…
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Design Considerations
<p>Window glass design using ASTM E 1300 entails determining glass thickness(es) and types so that the window glass construction load resistance…
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Deconstructing the Window
<p>Over the years, the industry has relied heavily on the increasing performance of low-e coatings to drive window U-factors (thermal transmittance)…
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DC Water Headquarters Case Study
<p>Facades must be responsive to a myriad of qualities and influences ranging from urban impact and aesthetic character to numerous performance…
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Daylighting Post-Occupancy Evaluation Study
Daylighting is a key strategy to energy efficiency and improved occupant comfort, health, and productivity in buildings. However, providing desired
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Daylighting Parametric Workflows Used for Adaptive Reuse
<p>Daylighting & Solar Glare control, which affect both the energy consumption of the building as well as the comfort of the occupants, become…
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Curved Forming Panel Facades
<p>The performative and visual aspects of curved forming/bending thin “formable” planar materials is explored. Early tests for deflection indicate…
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Coupling Facade and Structure
Traditional approach for engineering the facade is building an isolated analysis model. However, it inhibits a dynamic design process where
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Controlling Anisotropy in Heat Treated Glass
<p>Anisotropy is also known as Brewster marks, quench marks, strain pattern, leopard spots, Iridescence, etc. Although anisotropy is inevitable when…
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Contextual Envelopes
<p>Aesthetic and technical capabilities of facade design have become seemingly endless as building technologies progress. While the capacity to…
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Collaborative Methodology for Fastracking Challenging Facade Concepts
<p>The goal is to explore the role and methodology employed between the architect and engineer as they look to resolve the opposing demands of design…
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Challenges of Tall Iconic Building Retrofit
<p>Change happens, for better or for worse, to all living and physical matter. In order to thrive and achieve longevity, we constantly need to adapt…
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Ceramic Precast Composite Panels
<p>An innovative lightweight ceramic precast composite panel is introduced in this paper that offers the unique benefits of prefabricated off-site…
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Blast Performance of TSSA
<p>Architectural preferences for commercial building continue towards increased transparency resulting in large lites of glass with minimal visual…
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Ballistic and Blast Integrated Design
<p>Increased security needs have led to a demand in enhanced curtain wall facade performance. In addition to thermal, acoustic, and structural…
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Architectural Ceramic Assemblies
This paper documents a six year academia/industry collaboration between researchers at the Department of Architecture, University at Buffalo (SUNY)
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Anisotropy and Haze Measurement with Online Scanners
<p>Architects and facade planners require that anisotropies or haze, optical phenomena disturbing the clear appearance of a glass, have to be avoided…
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Anisotropic Effects in Architectural Glass
<p>Iridescence effects, quench marks, leopard marks… The names given to optical anisotropy in toughened and heat-strengthened glass are diverse and…