The Facade Tectonics Institute (FTI) announces a call for abstracts for our 2022 World Congress (2022WC) to be convened in Los Angeles on October 12-13. When it comes to the building facade there is much to talk about. And the Institute is aggressively inclusive, with the mission of bringing all...
The Facade Tectonics Institute kicked off their first installment of FTI Dialogues: Suppliers & Contractors Series virtually on Friday, March 19th. High-performance facade systems are recognized as a key element in achieving sustainable building performance while also being tasked with providing
The Facade Tectonics Institute is pleased to launch our long-awaited podcast, starting with Episode 01: Passive House, a moderated discussion between Lois Arena, Director of Passive House Services at Steven Winter Associates and Spencer Culhane, Senior Building Envelope Specialist at Schüco USA.
<p>The state-of-the-art of Additive Manufacturing (AM), popularly known as 3D printing, shows its prospective future in the…
This paper tells the story of a Double Skin Facade (DSF), where high performance and multi-disciplinary collaboration saves a library concept of
Fundamentals of Facade Technology: Jeff Vaglio, a proud Facade Geek and lifelong learning proponent, reports on a hands-on industry/academic collaboration at USC. Education is a core mission of the Facade Tectonics Institute, serving both academia and the building profession.
There is history to this new enterprise. Facade Tectonics started as a series of invited roundtable discussions at the University of Southern California School of Architecture in 2007 as a strategic response to the escalating importance and complexity of building facade technology. These roundtable
The global increase in atmospheric temperature rise combined with the rapid growth of previously underdeveloped climate zones presents a growing need
Precast Concrete Enclosures is an elective course taught by Assistant Professor Pablo Moyano Fernandez at Washington University in St. Louis. The primary goal of the course is to enable students to envision and materialize full-scale building envelopes using precast concrete.
<p>Curtain walls and window walls are typically specified to meet a variety of different performance and testing criteria, some of which can be quite…
<p>Glass by nature is a reflective material, and it is well-known and documented that issues of glare can occur due to solar reflection. This…
Traditional architecture can be a valuable source of inspiration for designers. Sustainable design concepts in traditional architecture have been
Complex freeform architectural enclosures are becoming increasingly popular and easy to model and design with the help of modern computational tools.
Today's evolving digital tools allow designers to be more creative in designing new forms and geometries. Adapting similar tools to the fabrication