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  • Parametric Louver System

    The Parametric Louver System is a customized tool that expedites several design iterations while embedding multiple design parameters. The ambition

  • Working With Big Data

    Big data is having a noticeable impact on enclosure engineering design. With continuing advancements that liberate the geometrical form and the

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    United States Olympic and Paralympic Museum

    <p>Advanced fabrication processes combined with parametric 3D modeling give designers and architects the freedom and versatility to push the…

  • Breathing Lessons

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

  • 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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    The Monash Woodside Building

    <p>Today’s environmental challenges highlight the necessity of a holistic approach to façade design and construction, key to achieve the ambitious…

  • Process of Repair Evaluation

    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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    Shade and Spectacle

    <p>This paper will look at the different facades of the Elysian Fields apartment building designed by Warren Techentin Architecture [WTARCH] and…

  • EVA Interlayers in Hardened Facades

    Explosions can result in very high loads of extremely short durations. Protective design to mitigate the effects of blast loading requires façade

  • 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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    The First Triple Certified Facade

    <p>Johnson Controls (JCI), a leading provider of intelligent building technology solicited the design of a 35,000sm headquarters for its Asia-Pacific…

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    Elliptical Ways

    <p>Construction projects almost invariably encounter a critical stage at the moment of handover between the designing and the executing party. At…

  • OpenFacadeControl

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

  • Hydroformed Shading

    New approaches to lightweight metal forming have the potential to advance architectural fabrication, particularly in the design and engineering of

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    Novel Techniques for Facade Optimization

    <p>Complex freeform architectural enclosures are becoming increasingly popular and easy to model and design with the help of modern computational…

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    Mixed Reality in Facade Education

    <p>Developments in performative computational analysis, mass customization, and complex form manipulation revolutionized building envelope design…

  • Mapping Advanced Facades

    This paper describes the development of an interactive map that highlights case studies of advanced facade design strategies and technologies from

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    Thinking About Facades

    <p>There have been three decades of liberating developments in the application of descriptive geometry and freeform design methods, as well as the…

  • North Capitol Building Case Study

    The Utah State Capitol North Building, currently under construction, features 80,000 SF of classically designed cubic granite detailing, including