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| The report reflects the close cooperation between architecture, structure engineering and façade development and shows how resources can be saved with cross-disciplinary solution concepts.
| The project is a facade to access an office building.
| Octatube delivered this roof in March 2021.
| The present work presents the investigation of historical glass and glass constructions in a suburb of Dresden.
| Christoph Timm, Principal at SOM New York, shared insights on decarbonizing the built environment and the evolving landscape of sustainable construction.
| A window's glazing properties play a key role in defining the quality and quantity of transmitted daylight in a space.
| The idea was realized in a collaborative research effort of TU Berlin, BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg and Josef Gartner GmbH that resulted in a full-scale mock-up of a Double‑Skin Facade.
| BIPV represents an important field to explore, since PV systems have an enormous potential within the context of architectural and urban design.
| The trend in modern architecture towards a steady optimisation of building envelopes is continuing. Beside its function as a design element, a façade also contributes to the building’s energy balance.
| This paper examines the visual performance of building facades that utilize windows with different photochromic-coated glass.
| Structural interlayers in laminated glass have allowed engineers and specifiers to extend and improve the use of glazing solutions in the construction industry.
| A new design approach for loadbearing monolithic glass components of reduced annealing time
| In this work, thermal and electrical performances of a multicrystalline silicon based PV-vacuum glazing were characterised using indoor test cell.
| Within this research, two sets of real-scale laminated banister panels with the embedded connection were tested.
| The main challenge in the design of the duplex façade was the high aesthetical performance that the façade had to meet.
| The economy globalizes. The industries concentrate. The productions become uniform. Cultural specificities disappear. About architecture and glass in architecture, it is the same phenomenon.
| “Going ahead of the Curve” is what the advertisement states outside of newly remodeled, Class A office building in Ottawa, Canada.
| Can you name all types of dynamic glazing that are available in today’s market? Are you aware of their particular specifications and strengths? Don’t worry even if you can’t. 
| Combining transparency with a high compressive strength, glass enables us to make diaphanous load-bearing compressive members, from beams and columns to free-standing facades and entire glass structures.