Honing the Craft
Finishing of custom-fabricated architectural façade components represents one of the most significant components to their cost. Manually driven
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Air Spaces Changed Everything
<p>This abstract proposes that architectural facade design over the last 60 years has convulsed in light of two disruptions: air spaces which create…
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Fire Safety in High Rise Exterior Facades
One of the most complex yet least understood areas where fire can spread is at the perimeter of a building. Fire can not only spread from
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Case Study: Kao Ho Hospital Development, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
<p>U-shaped annealed profiled glass, or U channel glass is used in both the interior and exterior glass façade for decades, as it has long and…
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Thermal Performance of Closed Cavity Facades
<p>Closed cavity facades (CCF), a configuration of Double Skin Facade (DSF), consists of a double-glazed unit on the inner layer and single glazing…
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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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Transparent Aerogel Window
<p>Incorporating a novel, transparent monolithic aerogel into insulated glass units (IGUs) for windows and building enclosures will provide the…
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Efficiency-Driven Facade Optimization
As overall project schedules continue to contract and rising costs impact our design decisions, the importance of the design-assist phase for facades
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All-Glass Bearing Facades
<p>The Green Village at the TU Delft is a living lab for sustainable innovations. The Co Creation Centre (CCC) will be their new meeting center (13.5…
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Autonomous or Appropriate
This paper examines two profoundly different design approaches: one, herein called ‘autonomous’, where the building’s design is governed by internal
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Delivering Beauty
Amidst the critical conversations about the need to build better and more efficient building skins, designers are also mindful of the need for the
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Saving Face
<p>In 1871, a fourth level Architecture course was offered in New York City that instructed on topics such as heating, ventilation and circulation of…
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Mastery of Measurement
The conventional approach to specifying dimensional tolerances in architecture and construction is inadequate in the theater of premanufacturing
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Reglaze or Replace?
<p>Originally known as The Master Building, 310 Riverside Drive in Manhattan's Upper West Side is a 28-story tower completed in 1929 as an apartment…
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Smart Colored Window Technology
<p>Traditional architecture can be a valuable source of inspiration for designers. Sustainable design concepts in traditional architecture have been…
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Kinetic Solar Envelope
Kinetic responsive systems are gaining attention in architectural applications, to reduce the building’s energy consumption and environmental impact,
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Steel As A Curtain Wall Framing Material
This paper will explore steel forming methods other than cold drawn or hot rolled processes, and how they allow steel to be utilized as the primary
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Innovations with Glass
<p>Glass has become a popular building material that is used not only for windows but also as a load-bearing material. New dimensions of glass panes…
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Solar Reflection Mitigation
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 phenomenon
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Transfer Topologies
This research looks at the relationship of material and geometric distribution to set a methodology for integrating structural and thermal design.