Sustainable construction begins with an efficient building envelope. As the single largest building element, the building envelope or building shell separates the interior of the building from the ...

To achieve Net/Near-Zero Energy Building commitments, building envelopes using adaptive/dynamic technologies will be instrumental in reducing energy consumption. Adaptive façade panels, switching ...

Our Documentation section focuses on this issue’s main theme of building envelopes. It highlights projects that have, each in their own way, already set out on the path to a new architectural era – ...

The book’s candid, insightful, and sometimes revelatory interviews were conducted online by final-year master of architecture students in a building-envelope course at New York Institute of Technology ...