
Until recently, Google has occupied buildings that were designed for others and modified the interiors to suit its needs. Many of the improvements
Small towns are dying, and it is not just because of their dwindling economies. The physical fabric of our communities is literally crumbling. A
3.5 billion years ago, cyanobacteria created the foundation for life on Earth by producing the oxygen basis for our atmosphere. Should we once again
A collection of available public assets to assist in your resilient and sustainable building design and delivery.
FacadeRetrofit.org is an online resource for the AEC community, from architects to academic researchers. At the heart of this resource is a database of large commercial and multifamily buildings that have, or are currently undergoing, building facade retrofits.
We at Zaha Hadid Architects Computation and Design group (ZHACODE) explore the relevance of this resource-effective, experience-rich design and construction paradigm to both large institutional projects with complex geometry and mass-customisation, repeated unit projects with assembly complexities.
The building envelope is at the intersection of embodied and operational emissions. Curtain wall specifically could play an important role in
Cost-effective, sustainable, self-actuating, thermally-responsive, bio-composite exo-skins that act like shields or cloaks for existing buildings
The research is structured around complex optical effects of undulated glass and coatings that exhibit high reflectivity, especially at higher
An Enclosure-Integrated, Daylighting, Tracking Solar Collector (EIDTSC) has been developed for market which integrates into a building’s fenestration