14:00 Advanced Building Skin Design 1
Chair: Russell Gilchrist, Gensler, Chicago, USA
Methods and technologies for advanced building skin design
- Effective and efficient design methods
- Self-conditioning façades (SCF): concept and challenges
- Ultralight façade technologies and their benefits for industry
Fabian Schmid, seele GmbH, Gersthofen, Germany
Advanced performances and construction processes with parametrical design – The Generali Tower, Milan
- Double façade to achieve high thermal and acoustic performances
- Achieving a balance between formal, technical and economical drivers
- Designing under a tight budget
Paolo Zilli, Zaha Hadid Architects, London, United Kingdom
Adapting façade design to different climatic zones
- Designing envelope response according to site context
- Relationship of façade approach to building systems
- Performance indicators and building code compliance
Russell Gilchrist, Gensler, Chicago, USA
Self-supporting free-form structures made of individual sheet metal panels
- Free-form façades composed of individually formed sheet metal panels
- Combination of automated metal forming processes
- Lightweight structural design achieved by principles of structural morphology
Thorsten Pofahl, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Innovative building skins engineered – Recent projects in the USA
- Molded branding ductal facades – Louis Vuitton Aventura Florida
- Twisted cast terracotta second skin – Nike flagship store Manhattan
- Riveted free-form metal Art – tessellated envelopes Texas
Wilfried Laufs, Laufs Engineering Design, Long Island City, NY, USA
15:30 Coffee Break