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Complex façades need early engineering
Pietro Pavesi compares a glazed high-rise and a largely solid parametric museum to show why façade engineering must enter early. Prefabrication, double skins and geometric discretization all become easier when system log...
Tirana
Senna Tower: transformando a jornada do herói em uma envoltória superalta
Stéphane Domeneghini mostra como a Senna Tower traduz a jornada simbólica do herói em um edifício superalto, enquanto fachada unitizada, coroamento, engenharia de vento e coordenação técnica transformam uma narrativa arq...
São Paulo
Clean by sunlight: inorganic self-cleaning anodised aluminium
Fan Lee of Anometal described a coating-free anodised aluminium that cleans itself: photocatalysis to break down the organic dirt that makes particles stick, and a super-hydrophilic surface, measured at a water contact a...
Melbourne
Self-cleaning aluminium: an anodised skin that uses sunlight to stay clean
Fan Lee brought a machine to prove it: oil on the surface, methyl red as the contaminant, an hour of ultraviolet, and both are gone. An anodised layer of titanium and aluminium oxide that cleans itself in sunlight.
Dubai
The façade mindset: quality is settled before design begins
The industry is not short of expertise: ask anyone what makes a façade perform and they will answer correctly. Osama Abbas, of IBECE Group, on why intelligent teams still deliver failing envelopes, and the order the ques...
Dubai
