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20th Advanced Building Skins Conference & Expo
03-04 November 2025, Bern, Switzerland

20th Advanced Building Skins Conference & Expo
03-04 November 2025, Bern, Switzerland

20th Advanced Building Skins Conference & Expo
03-04 November 2025, Bern, Switzerland

20th Advanced Building Skins Conference & Expo
03-04 November 2025, Bern, Switzerland

20th Advanced Building Skins Conference & Expo
03-04 November 2025, Bern, Switzerland

20th Advanced Building Skins Conference & Expo
03-04 November 2025, Bern, Switzerland

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, Session Block B4

10:45 Innovative Products and Technologies for Building Skins

Pioneering glass innovation

  • Breakthrough in flatness and transparency
  • 3D curved glass
  • Improved curvature and tempering

Nancy Wang, Northglass, Tianjin, China

Outside the mould: Pioneering open-pour borosilicate glass for façades

  • Large-scale exterior façades
  • Challenging the boundaries of glass in architecture
  • Material research, custom engineering, performance testing

Vladimir Marinov, Define Engineers, London, United Kingdom

Efficient façade Design for Manufacture and Assembly

  • 90% recyclable content
  • Control devices powered by embedded PV
  • Oxygenation by inherent plantation

Amin Nayyar, ANA Design Studio, New Delhi, India

Eroded earthen mass: Multi-axis waterjet carving of wet clay façade assemblies

  • Automating production of extruded terracotta assemblies
  • Creating deep digital textures using waterjet technology
  • Exploring extreme material and weight reduction in ceramics

Christopher Romano, University at Buffalo, United States

Innovative façade material from willow wood and polymer

  • Willow wood textiles in façade reinforcement
  • Process chain development from cultivation to construction
  • Opacity control as a key design feature

Lena Hellmann, Bau Kunst Erfinden, Germany

A façade-integrated cooling system based on adsorption

  • Innovativ, decentral cooling system
  • Potential of CoolSKIN in different locations
  • Potential of CoolSKIN for different building types

Andreas Schedler, University of Stuttgart, Germany

Brief Presentations

New envelope materials not described in the Code and Certifications

James Buckner, CBUCK Engineering, United States

Innovating window technology

Urs Uehlinger, Bern University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland

Fibre-reinforced composite materials in ventilated façade components

Paolo Giussani, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

12:30 Lunch

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