FACADE T E C T O N I C S

Summer 2011 School of Architecture University of Southern California

The Chase L. Leavitt Graduate Building Science Program Endowment Gin Wong Conference Center, Harris Hall 101

Friday and Saturday, July 29-30, 2011

FAADE TECTONICS Summer 2011 includes presentations by leading architects, engineers, faade designers, and researchers. The conference provides a forum for connecting the academy and the professions. Leading practitioners and researchers will come together to share knowledge about cutting edge issues in facade design and implementation. The USC School of Architecture has established a research focus on the study of facades and the building envelope.

The (not yet named) FAADE TECTONICS CENTER at USC This is the short version. For more detail, email dnoble@usc.edu CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS: We conduct two FACADES conferences and two FACADES workshops each year. Some events are free and open to the public, others are members only. Now that conferences are being over-subscribed, sponsors and members will be given first access to conference seats. STUDENTS: The school re-started its doctoral program in 2008, and there are now eleven Ph.D. students examining a broad range of arenas related to the building enclosure. The doctoral program builds on the strengths of the Chase L. Leavitt Building Science Masters Degree program, which recently was named a Top-notch program by Architect Magazine. The doctoral research area examines a full range of aspects of the building envelope. We also have Masters degree students conducting building enclosure thesis and research projects. RESEARCH ARENAS: Sustainability Double-Skin Facades Architectural Acoustics Digital Media Solar Access Faade Acoustics Seismic Design Fabric Structures Digital Fabrication, CAD/CAM Performative Architecture Materials and Assemblies Lighting / Daylighting / Glare Building Information Modeling Historic Structures Technology Cable-Suspended Glass Skins Architectural Science Education Integrated Architectural Technology FACULTY: A broad and deep faculty group featuring strong academics and experienced professionals with years of experience. A core group of faculty have been together for more than 20 years, and a number of exciting new additions have been made to the tenure-track faculty. SUPPORT / SPONSORSHIP / MEMBERSHIP: There are many different kinds of opportunities to support FAADE TECTONICS, from scholarship and conference sponsorships to naming endowments. We are waiting to name the entire organization with the help of a lead endowment gift. We will be adding additional Founding sponsors through the 2012 World Conference. Act before July 2012 to be a founding supporter. We also seek publication endowments, facilities support and named faculty Chairs. Email dnoble@usc.edu to obtain a no-obligation shopping list of opportunities.

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Summer 2011 School of Architecture University of Southern California
Sponsors:

AC MARTIN PARTNERS
Since 1906, driven to pursue timeless ideals in commercial, corporate office, education, government, hospitality, religious, renovation, residential, science + technology, and urban design and planning.

ALTOON + PORTER Architects LLP

A commitment to respond to context, to create community and to serve the clients investment or institutional goals has resulted in projects in 42 countries valued at more than $11 billion in construction.

Architects Newspaper
The official media sponsor of Faade Tectonics 6

C.R.Laurence
North America's leading supplier to the Glass Industry.

ENCLOS Corp.
Experts in the design, engineering, fabrication, assembly and erection of custom facade systems

GIROUX GLASS, Inc.

Giroux Glass Inc. has established itself as one of the nations most respected glazing contractors with over 65 years of service in the industry.

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Building Technologies Department

With support from the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, and the California Energy Commission, Public Interest Energy Research Program.

MITSUBISHI-ALPOLIC
A leading supplier of the highest quality Aluminum Composite Material (ACM) and Metal Composite Material (MCM) for the construction industry.

Nabih Youssef Associates

Structural Engineers

Oldcastle Building Envelope Los Angeles

Custom Fabricated Architectural Glass products, Store fronts and Entry Systems

PARAGON
Advanced Specialty Glass, Advanced Engineering, www.glassengineer.com

PPG Architectural Glass

Glass Coatings Paint

Simpson Gumpertz & Heger

A national engineering firm that designs, investigates, and rehabilitates structures and building enclosures throughout the United States and in more than 30 other countries.

SMG Stone Company

Setting the Standard in Stone Craftsmanship and Installation

W & W Glass, LLC

Suppliers of the Pilkington Planar system. Point supported glass for glass fin walls, cable nets, skylights and canopies.

Walters and Wolf

Exterior Cladding and Enclosure Specialist From Concept to Completion

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Friday, July 29, 2011
8:00-8:30 8:30-8:50 Check in Welcome from Dean Qingyun Ma. AIA Mic Patterson, Jeffrey C. Vaglio and Douglas Noble, FAIA, Ph.D. Faade Tectonics Dean Vlahos, FAIA, Session Moderator Peter Simmonds Ph.D., Head of Advanced Technology Group, IBE Consulting Engineers Optimizing Faade Performance Norm Shane, Vice President, Walters & Wolf The Cable Stayed Point Supported Chamber Walls West Coast Debut 11:00 - 11:50 Miriam Figueroa, Session Moderator

9:00 10:30

Mark Dannettel, LEED AP, Vice President, Thornton Tomasetti Load-Sharing and Composite Behavior for Facades: Engineering Principals for Cable-nets, Laminated Glass, and Other Structural Assemblies Brian Guerrero, Senior Project Director, Thornton Tomasetti Parametric Derivation of Building Skins: Using Grasshopper and Constructability Limits to Generate Complex Geometric Facades. 12:00 12:50 1:00 - 2:00 Lunch, Sponsored by W&W Glass LLC Pablo LaRoche, Ph.D., Session Moderator Erik Olsen, PE, Managing Director, Transsolar Climate Engineering: Energy Efficiency and Environmental Quality in Buildings John E. Breshears PE, AIA, LEED BD+C, President, Architectural Applications (A2) An Emerging Taxonomy of High Performance Faade Systems 2:30 3:50 Tat Fu, Ph.D., Session Moderator Gregg Brandow, Ph.D., S.E., Chairman, Brandow & Johnston; Prof. of Engineering Practice, USC Let Skins Shake: Understanding How Building Structure Movements Affect on the Skin James Parker, S.E., Simpson Gumpertz & Heger, Inc. Seismic Sustainability Accommodating Seismic Ground Shaking in the Enclosure Judson Taylor, Architect, AIA, LEED AP , Simpson Gumpertz & Heger, Inc. High Performance Integrity of the Building Envelope Subjected to Building Movements 4:00 5:20 Elizabeth Valmont, Session Moderator Stacey Hooper, AIA, LEED AP, Associate Principal at HMC Architects Building a Better Glass Box: Redefining Facade as a Mechanical Systems Component Steve Fredrickson, Architectural Manager, SERGE FERRARI Textiles - The Options Available for Facades Karen E Mozes, MS Eng, LEED AP BD+C, Principal, Green Dinosaur Meeting the New Challenges of LEEDv2012: Building Envelope Commissioning 5:30 6:00 Reception, Sponsored by Mitsubishi - Alpolic Steve Selkowitz, Program Head, Building Technologies Department, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Future Facades: Opportunities and Challenges

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Saturday, July 30, 2011
8:00 - 8:40 Yara Masri, Session Moderator Jeffrey C, Vaglio, PE, LEED AP, Enclos Concept to Fabrication: A Grasshopper Driven, Doubly-Curved, Cable-Net Structure Karen M. Kensek, Assistant Professor, USC School of Architecture BIM: Simple Conceptual Energy Modeling 8:50 10:10 Tyler Tucker, Session Moderator Marc Schiler, FASES, LC, Professor, USC School of Architecture (not confirmed yet) Performative Skins: Upon Reflection Olivier Sommerhalder, AIA, Gensler Skinning Office Buildings: Envelope Design Strategies for Office Buildings

Mic Patterson, LEED AP, Director of Strategic Development, Advanced Technology Studio - Enclos Skins and Re-skins: Sustainable Strategies for the Facade Retrofit of Tall Curtain Wall Buildings 10:30 - 11:50 Malvin Hwee, Session Moderator Matt Williams, Facades Practice Leader, Arup Dynamic Skins: Case Study Albert Kaneshiro, AIA, LEED AP BD+C, Project Manager, Senior Associate, HOK ETFE Faade System on ARTIC (highspeed rail station) Greg Otto, Principal, Buro Happold Complexity Made Simple: Computational Methods for Faade Design 12:00 12:50 1:00 1:40 Lunch, Sponsored by Oldcastle Building Envelope Los Angeles Marc Schiler, Session Moderator Ronald Altoon, FAIA, LEED AP, SCDP, Altoon + Porter Architects AUA: Second World Context--First World Concept: An Envelope Strategy with Limited Resources 1:50 2:30 John Mutlow, Session Moderator David Martin, FAIA, AC Martin Partners Building Strategies for the Southern California Climate 3:00 - 4:20 Will Shepphird, Session Moderator Ed Losch PE, SE, Architect, LEED AP, President, Losch Engineering Corp. Frank Lloyd Wright's Textile Block: The Inspiration for a Sustainable Insulated Precast Concrete Modular Block System Robert Garlipp, Gensler Custom Castings in Faade Construction Aleksandar Zeljic, AIA, LEED BD + C, Senior Designer and Facade Design Leader at Gensler Complexities and Decision Making Processes: Developing the Shanghai Tower Facade Design 4:30 Jeffrey C. Vaglio, Session Moderator Mic Patterson, LEED AP, Director of Strategic Development, Advanced Technology Studio - Enclos Implementing Innovative Building Technology: Structural Glass Facades and Enclosures