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    Thinking About Facades

    • Paper by Marc Schiler, FASES, LC,

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

  • Saving Small Towns

    • Paper by Leah Kemp

    Small towns are dying, and it is not just because of their dwindling economies. The physical fabric of our communities is literally crumbling. A

  • ETFE Membrane Envelope Strategies

    • Paper by Audrey L Worden, ISSF · Kihong R. Ku, DDes · Alexander G. Worden, RA NCARB

    Airflow within the cavity of double-skin facades is a key component of adaptive building envelopes which change thermophysical properties to meet

  • Facade Resilience Evaluation Framework

    • Paper by Fabio Favoino · Adèle Chalumeau · Audrey Aquaronne

    Resiliency is the capacity of a building (or building component in the case of the facade) to support building functionalities during extreme events

  • Design and Energy Analysis

    • Paper by Mahsa Farid Mohajer, Ajla Aksamija, Professor

    <p>Integration and interoperability between Building Information Modeling (BIM) and Building Energy Modeling (BEM) tools pose major challenges for…

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    When Facades Kill

    • Paper by Terri Meyer Boake,

    <p>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…

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    Shade and Spectacle

    • Paper by Warren Techentin, FAIA, NCARB, LEED, Adjunct Associate Professor

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

  • Window in Wall: Back to the Future

    • Paper by Thomas Auer · Ata Chokhachian

    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

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    Nested Density

    • Paper by Wendy Cox, Architect, Associate Professor

    <p>Projecting imagery onto building facades is not only becoming a marketing necessity for successful urban spectacles but is also altering social…

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    Stainless Steel 101

    • Paper by Michael Mulhern,

    <p>This paper presents a summary of the industry advances beyond T304 and T316 austenitic stainless steels. The greater availability of precipitation…

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    The First Triple Certified Facade

    • Paper by Stephen Katz, AIA, LEED AP BD+C, Senior Associate

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

  • Renewing Two Saarinen Icons featured image

    Renewing Two Saarinen Icons

    • Paper by David N. Fixler, FAIA, Gary Tondorf-Dick, AIA, LEED AP, Katherine S. Wissink, PE, Matthew B. Bronski, PE,

    <p>Kresge Auditorium and the MIT Chapel, designed by Eero Saarinen and built in 1955, are both world renowned works of architecture and powerful…

  • Invert Auto-Shading

    • Paper by Jae Yong Suk · Doris Sung

    Allowing sufficient amount of natural light while avoiding excessive sunlight penetration is often hard to achieve with static facade systems due to

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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…

  • Shaping Skin

    • Paper by John Neary AIA LEED AP NCARB

    The conventional modern facade is essentially flat, which creates the tendency toward visual monotony and problems for modulating daylight—both on