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  • 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…
  • The Monash Woodside Building

    Today’s environmental challenges highlight the necessity of a holistic approach to façade design and construction, key to achieve the ambitious 2030

  • 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

  • Shade and Spectacle

    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…
  • Celebrating Diversity in Architecture

    Prior to the summer of 2020 many people and organizations in the architecture/design industry spent time calling attention to the lack of diversity. While we are aware it affects many industries, I can only write and speak with accuracy to what happens in the industry I work in.

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    The First Triple Certified Facade

    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

    Construction projects almost invariably encounter a critical stage at the moment of handover between the designing and the executing party. At this…
  • OpenFacadeControl

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

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    Hydroformed Shading

    New approaches to lightweight metal forming have the potential to advance architectural fabrication, particularly in the design and engineering of…
  • Novel Techniques for Facade Optimization

    Complex freeform architectural enclosures are becoming increasingly popular and easy to model and design with the help of modern computational tools.

  • Mixed Reality in Facade Education

    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

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