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  • Fire Safety and Code Challenges for Mass Timber in Curtain Wall Systems featured image

    Fire Safety and Code Challenges for Mass Timber in Curtain Wall Systems

    <p>With the desire for more sustainable construction and reduced embodied energy, mass timber is being explored for building structures. For medium…

  • U-Factor Matters in Hot Climates

    It is commonly thought that fenestration U-factor is not a key determinant in the performance of facades in hot climates, and generally the focus of

  • Systems Thinking featured image

    Systems Thinking

    <p>This paper surveys facade design education in accredited Bachelor and Master of Architecture (B.Arch and M.Arch) programs in the United States. A…

  • Specifying Electrochromic Glass featured image

    Specifying Electrochromic Glass

    <p>Electrochromic (EC) glass is a seemingly magical solution to a building’s sun shading problems. A technology that was originally developed about…

  • Influence of Facade Materials on the Acoustic Environment featured image

    Influence of Facade Materials on the Acoustic Environment

    <p>Urban noise pollution is a major environmental health problem. International organizations are making efforts to prevent health damage due to high…

  • United States Olympic and Paralympic Museum featured image

    United States Olympic and Paralympic Museum

    <p>Advanced fabrication processes combined with parametric 3D modeling give designers and architects the freedom and versatility to push the…

  • An Energy-harvesting Building Facade featured image

    An Energy-harvesting Building Facade

    <p>In order to reduce energy consumption throughout the whole life-cycle of buildings and increase the comfort performance of building sectors, an…

  • Terra Cotta Skins

    This paper will address the potential of ornamental architectural terracotta surfaces to mitigate the effects of climate fluctuations that will

  • Feasibility of Measuring Stress in Glass with a SCALP featured image

    Feasibility of Measuring Stress in Glass with a SCALP

    <p>The SCALP device is designed to measure the residual compressive surface stress of glass. As the SCALP does not rely on the birefringence…

  • VR For Daylight featured image

    VR For Daylight

    <p>Daylighting is often an important component of architectural design and heavily influenced by a building’s facade and enclosure systems. Unlike…

  • Hydroformed Shading featured image

    Hydroformed Shading

    <p>New approaches to lightweight metal forming have the potential to advance architectural fabrication, particularly in the design and engineering of…

  • Lightweight Veneer in High-rise Unitized Facades featured image

    Lightweight Veneer in High-rise Unitized Facades

    <p>Manufactured veneer panels such as glass fiber reinforced concrete (GFRC), ultra high performance concrete (UHPC), sintered stone, and terracotta…

  • Renewing Historic Facades featured image

    Renewing Historic Facades

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

  • Green Wall Rainscreen

    Green Wall applications are growing in popularity around the world. Often thought of as a decorative element they provide much more than aesthetic

  • Sustainable Silicone featured image

    Sustainable Silicone

    <p>Silicone materials have a long history in high performance building projects. Known for durability, they can reduce a building’s carbon footprint…

  • Thermoelectric Facades featured image

    Thermoelectric Facades

    <p>This article discusses design, prototype development and a simulation study of novel types of facade systems, which integrate thermoelectric (TE)…

  • Building Scale Mock-up featured image

    Building Scale Mock-up

    <p>Until recently, Google has occupied buildings that were designed for others and modified the interiors to suit its needs. Many of the improvements…

  • Optimized Adaptive Re-Use featured image

    Optimized Adaptive Re-Use

    <p>Contemporary building practice represents a disconnect between traditional manufacturing techniques, that favor straight runs and orthogonal…

  • The Glass Failure Prediction Model featured image

    The Glass Failure Prediction Model

    <p>ASTM E 1300 Standard Practice for Determining Load Resistance (LR) of Glass in Buildings defines the load resistance of a glass construction as…

  • Heat-Treated Glass

    What was once an accepted reality in heat-treated exterior glass, optical disturbances in glass are under increasing scrutiny by developers,