Doubling Mies
<p>Mies van der Rohe’s concurrently designed projects for Commonwealth Promenade Apartments (1953-1956) and the Esplanade Apartments (1953-1957), saw…
<p>Mies van der Rohe’s concurrently designed projects for Commonwealth Promenade Apartments (1953-1956) and the Esplanade Apartments (1953-1957), saw…
<p>Building design criteria requires that government buildings be designed for a variety of extreme loads including blast, hurricane, and impact…
<p>Envelope-for-Service (E4S) is a novel business model developed with the aim of converting the building façade from a traditionally traded good to…
<p>As the first phase of a $4 billion dollar, 180-acre, 60 building government preservation project in Washington DC, this case study reviews the…
<p>Kintsukuroi, the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with powdered precious metal, is a practice of celebrating the life and history of an…
<p>New approaches to lightweight metal forming have the potential to advance architectural fabrication, particularly in the design and engineering of…
<p>With net zero and carbon neutral mandates on the near horizon, New York City has pushed the green building envelope by leveraging incentive-based…
Transposing innovation from government funded research to commercially viable solutions becomes ever more important when combined with the urgent
<p>Change happens, for better or for worse, to all living and physical matter. In order to thrive and achieve longevity, we constantly need to adapt…
<p>Johnson Controls (JCI), a leading provider of intelligent building technology solicited the design of a 35,000sm headquarters for its Asia-Pacific…
How has the role of the façade evolved in light of the COVID-19 pandemic and ongoing fight to combat the climate change crisis? As companies grapple
<p>In order to get to a carbon neutral building stock – which is e.g. required by the EU Carbon roadmap by 2050 – our efforts need to be smart and…
<p>The historical focus on reducing the carbon footprint of a building has recently shifted to include more emphasis on embodied carbon, the carbon…
An Enclosure-Integrated, Daylighting, Tracking Solar Collector (EIDTSC) has been developed for market which integrates into a building’s fenestration
<p>The pathway to carbon-neutrality, as urged during the COP 21 in Paris, and the repeated goal for resilient buildings and urban habitats, winds…
During the postwar era, and before the universal adoption of air-conditioning in the United States, leading architects participated in the design of
<p>It was a challenging design problem: supply a sustainable material for roofing, soffit and fascia panels that would perform in close proximity to…
<p>With an ever-growing interest in mid- and high-rise mass timber construction, this paper highlights the insights and lessons learned across global…
This case study provides an overview of building hybrid curtain wall system and future opportunities for the use of timber. It will also review the
This paper describes the development of an interactive map that highlights case studies of advanced facade design strategies and technologies from