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    Doubling Mies

    • Paper by Timothy Brown AIA NCARB CSI, Associate Professor

    <p>Mies van der Rohe’s concurrently designed projects for Commonwealth Promenade Apartments (1953-1956) and the Esplanade Apartments (1953-1957), saw…

  • Carbon-Dioxide-Inhaling Facade

    • Paper by Prof. Dr. Timo Schmidt · Carmen Herrmann · Dr. Michael Lakatos · Daniel Zabicki · Prof. Dr.-Ing. Michael Wahl · Kai Scherer

    3.5 billion years ago, cyanobacteria created the foundation for life on Earth by producing the oxygen basis for our atmosphere. Should we once again

  • Designing with Photovoltaics

    • Paper by Wayne Walker · Julia Ragragio Ruiz, LEED AP BD+C · Sam Crawford

    Photovoltaics (PV) have been utilized in buildings for decades, especially in Europe where legislative support has largely driven the market. With

  • Reduce, Reuse, Reclad featured image

    Reduce, Reuse, Reclad

    • Paper by Daniel Nauman, AIA, NCARB, LEED AP, Senior Associate Jessica Santonastaso, Associate Jennifer Sze, RA, USGBC LEED AP, Principal and Director of Special Inspections

    <p>Kintsukuroi, the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with powdered precious metal, is a practice of celebrating the life and history of an…

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    Thermal Performance of Closed Cavity Facades

    • Paper by Andrea Zani, Project Engineer Carmelo Guido Galante, Senior Project Engineer Lisa Rammig, Senior Associate

    <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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    The Butterfly

    • Paper by Venelin Kokalov, Design Principal Shinobu Homma, Architect AIBC, AAA, MRAIC, Technical Principal Amirali Javidan, Associate Director Zhuoli Yang, AIA, NCARB, LEED AP BD+C, Architect

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

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    Architectural Shape Optimization

    • Paper by Patricia Edith Camporeale, PhD, Posdoc researcher

    <p>This paper explores the architectural shape optimization of typical housing typologies: slab and high-rise residential buildings to reduce primary…

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    Process of Repair Evaluation

    • Paper by Linda Fu, RA, LEED AP, Associate Christopher Morgan, P.E., California Office Manager

    <p>As the building stock ages around the country and the consequences of design and/or construction that are deficient or lack resiliency become…

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    Rammed Earth & Wildfire

    • Paper by Brittany Dhawan, AIA, Architect / Owner

    <p>California is set to be drier and more drought prone with climate change. Wildfire and the subsequent loss of life and housing is a huge…

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    Growing Myceliated Facades

    • Paper by Thibaut Houette, M. Arch., Integrated Bioscience PhD student Brian Foresi, Biomedical Sciences (BS/MD) student Christopher Maurer, AIA, NCARB, Founder and Principal Architect Dr. Petra Gruber, Assoc. Prof.

    <p>Today's sustainability in architecture takes into consideration the complete life cycle of buildings and their components, from resource…

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    Breathing Lessons

    • Paper by Xaver Nuiding, Manager Design Dynamic Components Thomas Lorenz, Designer Engineering Philipp Herreiner, MSc., Project Design Manager Dr.-Ing. Michael Engelmann, Manager Technical Solutions

    <p>For a new corporate headquarters in San Francisco’s Mission Bay district, SHoP Architects designed a semi-conditioned atrium space inside the…

  • The Versatile Envelope Garden featured image

    The Versatile Envelope Garden

    • Paper by Nathaniel Barlam, Architectural Design Lead Yunyao Lin, Assistant Designer Ben Silverman, CTO + Cofounder at Edenworks

    <p>Facades play an integral role in defining the experience of modern life. As rising populations gravitate from rural to urban communities, they…

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    Duplex Stainless Steel Cladding

    • Paper by Fred Deuschle, Director of Engineering & Quality Jim Halliday, Director of Business Development

    <p>It was a challenging design problem: supply a sustainable material for roofing, soffit and fascia panels that would perform in close proximity to…

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    Preserving a Historic Facade

    • Paper by Maria Mohammed, S.E., Design Engineer John Fidler, RIBA, Intl Assoc AIA, FRICS, FSA, FRSA, FIIC, FAPT, President

    <p>Environmental and socio-economic benefits of sustainable preservation have become apparent most recently in the restoration of the historic former…