Papers

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  • Active and Energy Autonomous Window featured image

    Active and Energy Autonomous Window

    • Paper by Annalisa Andaloro, Leire Minguez Hilera, Stefano Avesani,

    <p>Reducing GHG emissions related to energy use in buildings is a prominent obligation given their impact in terms of climate change. In this light,…

  • Blurred Edges

    • Paper by Elizabeth L. McCormick AIA, WELL AP, LEED AP, CPHC, Assistant Professor

    <p>Sealed indoor environments have created artificial, homogeneous ecosystems that sever ties between humans and the natural world. This paper…

  • Carbon-Neutral High-Rise Envelope Nexus

    • Paper by Thomas Spiegelhalter

    The pathway to carbon-neutrality, as urged during the COP 21 in Paris, and the repeated goal for resilient buildings and urban habitats, winds right

  • Adaptive Facades

    • Paper by Walter Haase · Werner Sobek · Enrica Oliva · Michele Andaloro

    Facade engineering aims at appropriately balancing the demands imposed by the context and the capabilities inherent to the materials, the geometries

  • The Versatile Envelope Garden featured image

    The Versatile Envelope Garden

    • Paper by Nathaniel Barlam, Architectural Design Lead Yunyao Lin, Assistant Designer Ben Silverman, CTO + Cofounder at Edenworks

    <p>Facades play an integral role in defining the experience of modern life. As rising populations gravitate from rural to urban communities, they…

  • Structuring Skin

    • Paper by John Neary

    Curtain wall is the prevailing type of enclosure on modern buildings because of its economy, its independence from structure that allows flexibility

  • Heat-actuated Auxetic Facades featured image

    Heat-actuated Auxetic Facades

    • Paper by Amira Abdel-Rahman, Elnaz Tafrihi,

    <p>Highly transformable materials can be used as adaptive exterior shading systems by leveraging the relationship between external stimuli (heat) and…

  • Terra Cotta Skins featured image

    Terra Cotta Skins

    • Paper by Laura B. Garofalo, Assistant Professor

    <p>This paper will address the potential of ornamental architectural terracotta surfaces to mitigate the effects of climate fluctuations that will…

  • 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

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    Saving Face

    • Paper by Xsusha CarlyAnn Flandro, FAIC, APT-RP, Architectural Conservator

    <p>In 1871, a fourth level Architecture course was offered in New York City that instructed on topics such as heating, ventilation and circulation of…

  • Fit for the Future

    • Paper by Julia Koerner-Al-Rawi, Associate Adjunct Professor, Director of Summer Programs, Department of Architecture and Urban Design

    <p>Wearables protect us from climatic conditions, they provide privacy, comfort and they also reflect our style and personality. Building facades in…

  • HydroSKIN

    • Paper by Christina Eisenbarth, M.Sc. · Walter Haase, Dr.-Ing. · Lucio Blandini, Prof. Dr.-Ing. M.Arch. · Werner Sobek, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dr.-Ing. E.h. Dr. h.c.

    Building envelopes cover a considerable part of the urban exterior surfaces, and to therefore have a significant leverage effect on the climate

  • Terracotta 1912 to 2018

    • Paper by Carol Loewenson, FAIA, LEED AP · Stephen Dietz, AIA, LEED AP

    Center Three is a 100-year-old, one million square-foot building in Long Island City, New York that was constructed over the course of one year. It

  • Form Follows Well-Being featured image

    Form Follows Well-Being

    • Paper by David Bjelland M.Sc., Research Assistant Prof. Dr. sc. hum. MArch Dipl.-Ing. Timo Schmidt, Professor

    <p>Recent planning recognizes a growing demand for buildings that provide higher levels of occupant well-being. Often, well-being in buildings is…

  • Adaptable Glazing Shields featured image

    Adaptable Glazing Shields

    • Paper by Anas Al Kassas,

    <p>Today, about 40% of all buildings in the U.S. still have single-pane windows, and ~70% of the existing building stock is estimated to suffer from…

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    Kinetic Solar Envelope

    • Paper by Christina Koukelli, Facade Engineer Alejandro Prieto, Researcher Serdar Asut, Academic, Architect

    <p>Kinetic responsive systems are gaining attention in architectural applications, to reduce the building’s energy consumption and environmental…

  • Recent Adaptive Textile Façade Systems

    • Paper by Lucio Blandini · Moon-Young Jeong · Michael Voigt · Jonathan Lopez · Hannah Schürmann · Arina Cazan · Hannah Raisch · Daniel Roth · Maria Matheou

    Adaptive facade systems are a promising approach to achieve a dynamic response to varying weather conditions and user demands. The interdisciplinary

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    Execution Ways

    • Paper by Viswanath Urala, P.E., Senior Engineer Prakash R. Desai, P.E., S.E., Senior Structural Engineer

    <p>Business Insider has described San Francisco’s Chase Arena as setting “<em>a new standard for a sports arena in the US</em>”, and “<em>the…