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The roof you can walk on: designing façades as public ground rather than elevation

Richard Wood

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Climate risk reaches the façade through the insurance market first

Lizette McNeill, Edward Farrelly, Woody Chan, Grace Kwok & Marius Mariano

ZWOF Hong Kong 2025 Greater China Mock-upsProcurementHeat-strengthened glassUnitised curtain wallHong Kong

No spare glass: replacing a double curved pane in seven hours, without sealant

Yanchee Lau, Kevin Ng, Kaloyan Erevinov, Simon Chan & Nicolas Wachter

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Forty-two per cent, from replacing a gasket

Shevonne Kok

ZWOF Hong Kong 2025 Greater China MaintenanceColourSelf-cleaningHong KongAnodised aluminium

The contact angle that decides whether rain cleans a façade

Fan Lee

ZWOF Hong Kong 2025 Greater China Building physicsDaylightSimulationHong KongGlare

Why white paint reflects 90 per cent of the light and dazzles nobody

Leo Li

ZWOF Hong Kong 2025 Greater China Embodied carbonTerracottaBIPVHong KongStructural bracing

Where a façade's carbon actually hides, and the cladding you can delete

Ujjal Roy

ZWOF Hong Kong 2025 Greater China Curved glassStructural glassCoatingsHong KongTempering

What the oven decides about a curved pane

Joan Tarrús

ZWOF Hong Kong 2025 Greater China ResidentialStandardsGlass qualityHong KongAnisotropy

The buyer stands 20 centimetres away: where the glass standard stops working

Andreas Hiersemenzel

ZWOF Hong Kong 2025 Greater China BIMUnitised curtain wallTolerancesHong KongCold bending

What a double curved unit will not forgive: the aluminium, not the glass

Simon Chan

ZWOF Hong Kong 2025 Greater China Laminated glassTraceabilityInterlayersSupply chainQuality assurance

Trust and traceability: proving the interlayer in your glass

Sunnie Shen

ZWOF Hong Kong 2025 Greater China Fire safetyInsulating glassBIPVCertificationHong Kong

Before it generates anything, it has to behave like façade glass

Eric Chen Lei

ZWOF Hong Kong 2025 Greater China Curtain wallStructural glassComplex geometryCable netTolerances

Making a folded X meet exactly at the corner

Vivian Ngo & Yanchee Lau

ZWOF Hong Kong 2025 Greater China AluminiumSurface finishesDigital fabricationUnitised curtain wallHong Kong

Leaving the aluminium bare, and holding one model all the way to the factory

Michael Min Ra