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In a recent article from The Architect’s Newspaper, Andrea Love shared insight into the design process behind the highly calibrated and high performance façade on the Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Complex at Northeastern University, scheduled to open later this year. The sun shading system was developed through an iterative process between our Building Science Group and the design team. Given the initial desire for a curved façade, the Building Science Group worked with the team to determine how to deliver a curved façade that met the sustainability goals for the project. The end result is the result of a truly integrated design process wherein the building science informs the design intent and vice versa.
Real the full article.
Opening later this year, the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard in Cambridge, MA is an essay in the tuning of building façades for performance. The aluminum sunshades that veil the building began as a concept tested by scoring Bristol paper. The team utilized tools from all modalities: paper models, CNC-mills, parametric studies, solar analysis, wind and water simulations and full-scale mock-ups to inform the design and drive energy use down. The ultra-high performance building is tracking a 61% reduction in energy use compared to the 2030 baseline.
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