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Category: Double-skin façades

ME Dubai hotel at the Opus

ME Dubai hotel at the Opus

Posted by | May 22, 2020 | 0 |

Spanning 84,300 square meters (907,400 square feet), the Zaha Hadid-designed Opus was conceived as two separate towers that coalesce into a singular whole—taking the form of a cube. The cube’s double-glazed insulating façades incorporate a UV coating and a mirrored frit pattern to reduce solar gain. Applied around the entire building, this dotted frit patterning emphasizes the clarity of the building’s orthogonal form, while at the same time, dissolving its volume through the continuous play of light varying between ever-changing reflections and transparency.

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New York Sanitation Building Wows with Perforated Solar Fins Enriched with Lumiflon FEVE Resin

New York Sanitation Building Wows with Perforated Solar Fins Enriched with Lumiflon FEVE Resin

Posted by | Jul 1, 2019 | 0 |

Dattner Architects and WXY Architecture + Urban Design teamed up to design New York City’s Manhattan Districts 1/2/5 Garage and Spring Street Salt Shed. The 2,600 custom perforated aluminum solar fins, “float” off the building masonry base and reduce the building’s solar heat. The louvers were protected with IFS Coatings’ IFS 500 FP, a Lumiflon-enriched product.

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The Tower at PNC Plaza Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

The Tower at PNC Plaza Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Posted by | Mar 26, 2018 | 0 |

Vitro Architectural Glass and PNC Financial Services Group have played integral roles in the development of sustainable architecture. PNC has more newly constructed LEED® (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design)-certified green buildings than any company in the world, while Vitro Glass products have figured prominently in many of PNC’s signature architectural projects, including its boldest yet: The Tower at PNC Plaza. Opened in 2015 and planned to be one of the greenest office buildings ever built, the 33-story high-rise appears on the surface to be a conventional glass-and-steel skyscraper, yet the sleekly polished exterior hides a second glass façade that architectural firm Gensler designed, along with a rooftop solar chimney, to create a “breathing” building that uses fresh air and solar energy to naturally cool, heat and self-ventilate for much of the year.

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Solutions to today’s challenges in education facility design: Q&A with SCB

Solutions to today’s challenges in education facility design: Q&A with SCB

Posted by | Sep 27, 2017 | 0 |

PRISM was given the opportunity to ask four experts at SCB about their experience planning and designing education facilities, and the solutions they provide to overcome today’s challenges and create sustainable and attractive learning environments. SCB Is involved in the planning and design a number of prominent education facility projects including University of California, Merced, and the Loyola University Chicago.

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2017 COTE Top Ten Awards

2017 COTE Top Ten Awards

Posted by | May 23, 2017 | 0 |

The American Institute of Architects (AIA) Committee on the Environment (COTE) last month selected this year’s recipients of the Top Ten Awards, the industry’s premier program celebrating sustainable design excellence. For this year, COTE substantially revised its Measures of Sustainable Design, the criteria judges use to evaluate projects. New topics include impact on health, wellness, and economy.

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SOMA’s WAVE wins 2017 Architizer A+ Awards

SOMA’s WAVE wins 2017 Architizer A+ Awards

Posted by | May 16, 2017 | 0 |

While SOMA is renowned for double skin projects, WAVE wears its second skin out of necessity due to location and exposure: the longer site edge faces south and the shorter one faces west and demands that one extremely important and problematic issue be solved in terms of solar exposure and heat. A unique identity was created through this second layer skin or sunscreen.

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Tower at PNC Plaza, featuring PPG glass and coatings, earns 2016 ARCHITECT R+D AWARD

Tower at PNC Plaza, featuring PPG glass and coatings, earns 2016 ARCHITECT R+D AWARD

Posted by | Sep 27, 2016 | 0 |

The double-skin façade, one of the first of its kind in North America, combines with two vertical thermal shafts and a solar chimney to naturally ventilate the 33-story skyscraper without electricity or fan power for 42 percent of the year. As a result, the Tower at PNC Plaza, which opened Oct. 1, 2015, is expected to consume up to 50 percent less temperature-control-related energy than comparable buildings of its size.

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The Cradle to Cradle program certifies products based on five quality categories—material health, material reutilization, renewable energy and carbon management, water stewardship, and social fairness. Click here to see a list of building supply & materials, as well as other products, that are Cradle to Cradle certified.

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