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Towards Net Zero Enclosures
As architects and designers we understand the urgency of addressing the building sector’s role in the ongoing environmental crisis. Architecture2030
As architects and designers we understand the urgency of addressing the building sector’s role in the ongoing environmental crisis. Architecture2030
This paper provides an overview of a course focusing on the façade as taught to architecture students over a twenty-year period. The need for this
Big data is having a noticeable impact on enclosure engineering design. With continuing advancements that liberate the geometrical form and the
Few buildings are as iconic as Willis Tower. Generations of Chicagoans have a collective memory of this building playing a role in their entire
The tragic fire of June 14, 2017 at the Grenfell Tower in London, England has brought to a very public global forum issues related to the impact of
Daylighting & Solar Glare control, which affect both the energy consumption of the building as well as the comfort of the occupants, become
In 1871, a fourth level Architecture course was offered in New York City that instructed on topics such as heating, ventilation and circulation of
Facades play a relevant role in the search for a more sustainable approach to modern architecture. The amount of embodied and operational energy can
With the advent of more sophisticated analysis methods and the desire to optimize geometries of structural silicone joints in high performance
The case study presented is a 195 meters tall office tower with a raised podium made of 16 meters full height glass panels (and smaller). The panels
It may be difficult for modern man to believe that what is known as handicraft was once the advanced manufacturing of the day. These techniques were
Mies van der Rohe’s concurrently designed projects for Commonwealth Promenade Apartments (1953-1956) and the Esplanade Apartments (1953-1957), saw
Large master planned developments such as Battery Park City in Manhattan, Mission Bay in San Francisco, and Playa Vista in Los Angeles were built
Recently, building envelopes have been exhibiting complex shapes and patterns, a trend supported by current digital technologies. Likewise, the
Providing a unique and integral cladding/envelope solution suited for high-rise buildings has been an inherent challenge for this building typology
Kresge Auditorium and the MIT Chapel, designed by Eero Saarinen and built in 1955, are both world renowned works of architecture and powerful symbols
Connections, those transitions between systems and materials, are critically important when the surfaces are curved or complex. Well-designed
<p>Over the last two decades, in what has been coined “The Digital Turn”, the introduction of parametric design software has afforded increased…
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
Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is a methodology used to quantify the impact of building construction supply chains on the environment in terms of