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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North Capitol Building Case Study
The Utah State Capitol North Building, currently under construction, features 80,000 SF of classically designed cubic granite detailing, including… -
Exploring Heritage: Building on the Past
Welcome to this edition of the SKINS newsletter, which is all about carbon! As guest editor this month, I am representing FTI’s embodied carbon (EC) working group. This issue highlights several important topics relative to embodied and the trade-offs with operational carbon.
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Kinetics in Building Facades
The prominence of climatically responsive building facades through the use of kinetics has proliferated in recent years due to a concern for the
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Digital Lifecycle of Building Envelopes
“The digital transformation will change everything” – with this quote in mind a deep look into the current facade business will be given with a… -
Diversity and Team Building
How can we be more equitable and inclusive and provide greater opportunities and create an ethos of diversity, equity, and inclusion in the workplace? I offer a few thoughts for consideration.
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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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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… -
Bridging Aesthetics and Technology: Balancing Building Concept with Details in the Design Development Process of the Facade System
NYCCT Architecture Program Chairman Sanjive Vaidya, asked HOK facades architect John Neary to give a design studio focused on detailing the building skin system. With HOK designer Michael Miller, Neary led a group of students through the facade system design development process.
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Biofacades: Integrating Biological Systems with Building Enclosures
Biofacades integrate biological systems into building enclosures. This article introduces performance benefits, challenges, and taxonomies for different forms of building-nature integration. Beyond green walls, other forms of living matter such as algae and myceli
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Managing Solar Reflections from the Building Envelope
Understanding how a building will reflect sunlight has gone from a rare requirement to a key consideration during the planning permission process in… -
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Call for Board Nominations: Facade Engineer/ Consultant/ Building Scientist
Deadline: Wednesday, October 7th, 2020 Qualification and application details are outlined below. We welcome nominations from all current FTI members for candidates currently playing a leadership role in the facade engineering/consulting/building science profession.
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Printed Facades? Cases of Additive Manufacturing in the Building Envelope
This paper, written by a team at the Technical University at Darmstadt, uses examples of 3D printed structural glass, reinforced thin-sheet façade panels, and nesting bricks that can be integrated directly into facades to support work successful industrial applications.
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Thermal bridging: The missing key to low energy building design
Thermal bridging through building facades have been overlooked or over-simplified by designers and building energy codes and standards in the past, which has led to higher space heating and cooling loads, occupant discomfort, and higher risk of condensation.
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Spotlight on Research: R&D and Innovation in Building Skins
Research is an essential part of innovation. Our industry has seen an increased interest in research over the last fifteen years, driven by the multifaceted challenges facing our profession—environmental concerns, increasing complexity in building design and construction, necessity to improve...
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