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ZWOF Tirana 2026 Albania AlbaniaBuilding safetyMaintenanceFaçade accessReplacement strategy

Access belongs in façade design

Pat Duffy, Silvia Ilardi & Sofía Galán Rivera

ZWOF Tirana 2026 Albania AlbaniaLaminated glassAcoustic glazingInterlayersStructural glazing

One interlayer cannot do every job

Sandro Casaccio

ZWOF Tirana 2026 Albania Façade engineeringParametric designAlbaniaComplex geometryPrefabrication

Complex façades need early engineering

Pietro Pavesi

ZWOF Tirana 2026 Albania AlbaniaQuality controlFaçade mock-upsProductionInstallation sequencing

Mock-ups turn ambition into agreement

Carlo Zaka, Elvi Xhaxho, Enea Bedo, Raniel Sulaj & Stavros Gargaretas

ZWOF Tirana 2026 Albania AlbaniaUrban developmentFaçade cultureExisting buildingsConstruction quality

Tirana needs a façade culture

Andi Eftimi, Edlira Basha, Enrique Mascort del Pozo & Nikelina Bineri

ZWOF Tirana 2026 Albania AlbaniaFaçade designAdaptive reuseMaterial identityWeathering

Material gives architecture its memory

Marco Casamonti

ZWOF Tirana 2026 Albania Solar shadingAlbaniaFaçade designUrban identityBuildability

Identity and performance can share one skin

Luis Garcia

ZWOF Tirana 2026 Albania Curved glassAlbaniaLaminated glassLarge-format glassStructural glazing

Glass changes when scale changes

Ferran Figuerola

ZWOF Tirana 2026 Albania Solar shadingAlbaniaAdaptive reuseEnvironmental designFaçade expression

Expression starts with environmental logic

Catherine Huang

ZWOF Tirana 2026 Albania AlbaniaPublic realmCivic architectureFaçade patternUrban identity

A façade can teach the city

Beat Huesler

ZWOF Tirana 2026 Albania AlbaniaFaçade fire safetyCladding systemsMaterial traceabilitySystem testing

Fire safety is multiparametric

Angelos Zografos

ZWOF Tirana 2026 Albania AlbaniaFaçade maintenanceInspectionQuality controlBuilding safety

Tirana’s next challenge is maintenance

Ana Vesho

ZWOF Tirana 2026 Albania Solar controlAlbaniaFaçade performanceSeismic designSystem design

Performance can reshape the form

Alexander Riemer

ZWOF Tirana 2026 Albania Custom façadesMock-upsFire-rated glazingSystem integrationAlbania

Thinking outside the glazing box

Akis Valalis