Three-dimensional lacy forms wrap the structure, creating balconies, roofs, and apartment-dividing walls. The building’s facade creates a temperature buffer zone that protects the internal areas from ...

Scorching summers? Interior design expert reveals the secret to a cooler, chicer home with these decor tricks to block the heat. Summers and here and interior decor/design experts insist that sun ...

We face a tremendous climate change, extra heat every year, dealing between structures and climatic ecology. Facades designs play a very significant role in any housing building and a villa. There are ...

As the saying goes, “When in Shanghai, do as the Shanghaiers do.” Okay, no one really says that, but that’s what happened recently when an Italian firm 3Gatti Architecture Studio was looking for a new ...

Blank Studio’s Xeros Residence (from the Greek for ‘dry’) turns an opaque face towards the intense western afternoon sun in Phoenix, Arizona, while more exposed faces to the south and east are ...

Without these operable shading elements or the south facade’s fixed shading louvers, the building would have needed a much larger HVAC system, says Olsen. Transsolar also advised on the design ...

The goal is to design a multifunctional façade system that integrates smart technologies, such as IoT sensors, sun-shading, BIPV, or embedded heating/cooling systems. Your concept should enhance ...

From the 1990s until quite recently, architects on this continent often envied the textured and articulated building envelopes their international counterparts were creating, while their own shade ...