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  • Reconfigurable Terracotta Facade featured image

    Reconfigurable Terracotta Facade

    <p>The traditional building facade as a permanent construction does not actively respond to the differing needs from varying weather conditions.…

  • The Butterfly featured image

    The Butterfly

    <p>Providing a unique and integral cladding/envelope solution suited for high-rise buildings has been an inherent challenge for this building…

  • Multi-domain Assessment of a Kinetic Facade featured image

    Multi-domain Assessment of a Kinetic Facade

    <p>An assessment workflow was created to simulate and evaluate the performance of a kinetic facade in an interior space. It includes parameters of…

  • 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

  • OpenFacadeControl

    Automated facades are, for the most part, still considered as separate from other building systems throughout the design, installation,

  • Passive House Facade Design and Construction featured image

    Passive House Facade Design and Construction

    <p>Buildings account for over 40% of global emissions (GlobalABC, 2018). Growing populations and higher standards of living are increasing pressure…

  • ACT Facade featured image

    ACT Facade

    <p>Due to material and technological advancement during the last century, transparency has become a prominent trend in contemporary architecture.…

  • Historical Evolution of Responsive Facades

    Responsive facade system is considered a major component of high-performance building envelope that is capable of responding to environmental stimuli

  • 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…

  • Contextualizing Glass and Carbon Impacts

    <p>Climate change goals will require significant improvements in the way buildings are constructed and operated. Building reuse can combat climate…

  • Adaptable Glazing Shields featured image

    Adaptable Glazing Shields

    <p>Today, about 40% of all buildings in the U.S. still have single-pane windows, and ~70% of the existing building stock is estimated to suffer from…

  • Prefab Facades – from Prototype to Product?

    Building envelopes are not only an immediately visible part of the building, they have also become a major factor both for cost and performance of

  • Transparent Aerogel Window featured image

    Transparent Aerogel Window

    <p>Incorporating a novel, transparent monolithic aerogel into insulated glass units (IGUs) for windows and building enclosures will provide the…

  • A Compact, Unitized Double Skin Facade featured image

    A Compact, Unitized Double Skin Facade

    <p>Driven by an increasing demand for high thermal and acoustic performance, transparency, and low maintenance costs, a number of facade innovations…

  • Facade & ESG

    <p>In 2023, the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) inaugurated the first two global sustainability disclosure standards IFRS S1/S2…

  • CR∆CKİNG THЄ C󉘳DЄ // DYN∆MİC L∆B F∆C∆DЄS featured image

    CR∆CKİNG THЄ C󉘳DЄ // DYN∆MİC L∆B F∆C∆DЄS

    <p>The real estate market continues to demand “all glass” buildings often to the detriment of human comfort and thermal performance. For an office…

  • Adaptive Building Envelope featured image

    Adaptive Building Envelope

    <p>Designing a multi-functional building envelope as an architectural façade, environmental interface and solar collector is a multi-objective…