
Adaptive facade systems are a promising approach to achieve a dynamic response to varying weather conditions and user demands. The interdisciplinary
Welcome to this edition of the SKINS newsletter, which is all about carbon! As guest editor this month, I am representing FTI’s embodied carbon (EC) working group. This issue highlights several important topics relative to embodied and the trade-offs with operational carbon.
Welcome to this edition of the SKINS newsletter, which is all about carbon! As guest editor this month, I am representing FTI’s embodied carbon (EC) working group. This issue highlights several important topics relative to embodied and the trade-offs with operational carbon.
This issue of SKINS will attempt to introduce you to composite materials in an accurate, useful and fairly in-depth way. But it’s only an introduction; it’s a start but by no means a rigorous exploration of the full potential of this remarkable material technology.
As the building stock ages around the country and the consequences of design and/or construction that are deficient or lack resiliency become
The conventional modern facade is essentially flat, which creates the tendency toward visual monotony and problems for modulating daylight—both on
This paper explores the architectural shape optimization of typical housing typologies: slab and high-rise residential buildings to reduce primary
Apertures is a six-story, commercial building in the Roma Norte neighborhood of Mexico City–a neighborhood severely impacted by the 1985 and 2017
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This research looks at the relationship of material and geometric distribution to set a methodology for integrating structural and thermal design.