Solar shading

ZWOF New Delhi 2026 India Solar shadingIndiaMixed useCurtain wallingRetail design

Where a Noida block keeps its rectangle and spends its curves

Nisar Ahmed Shaikh

ZWOF New Delhi 2026 India Fire safetySolar shadingIndiaCladdingRainscreen

What Delhi's temperature swing asks of a laminate cladding panel

Ashwanii Khanna

ZWOF Bangkok 2026 Thailand Solar shadingComputational designFaçade designThailandParametric workflows

When geometry is described rather than drawn, the cost of change collapses

Jak Drinnan

ZWOF Lisbon 2026 Portugal Closed-cavity façadeBuilding physicsSolar shadingGlassPortugal

Thermal behaviour in closed cavities: why a low g-value isn’t enough

Robert Weitlaner

ZWOF Lisbon 2026 Portugal Solar shadingProjectsSustainabilityGeothermalPortugal

A building you can see being sustainable: the diamond ‘veil’ of Fidelidade’s new headquarters

Timothy Poell, Miguel França Santana & Pedro Appleton

ZWOF Phoenix 2026 United States Solar shadingDesign assistParametric designUSAView quality

Optimising shade without sacrificing the view

Chris O'Hara

ZWOF Phoenix 2026 United States Solar shadingDesign assistUSALife sciencesHealthcare façades

Critical envelopes, civic buildings: why life-science façades need whole-system thinking

John Meredith, Alex Korter, Xandon Keating, James Hatch & Joe Lisiewski II

ZWOF Rome Italy Unitised façadesSolar shadingRetrofitItalyCollaboration

RAI Viale Mazzini: aggiornare la facciata senza cancellarne il ritmo

Marco Brambilla & Paolo Franco

ZWOF Rome Italy Solar shadingRetrofitSteelItalyFiumicino

Molo D di Fiumicino: rinnovare l’involucro mentre l’aeroporto continua a funzionare

Alberto Ferrari, Alessandro Ferreri, Vittorio Banella, Luca Mastropierro & Elisa Faretina

ZWOF Tirana 2026 Albania Solar shadingAlbaniaFaçade designUrban identityBuildability

Identity and performance can share one skin

Luis Garcia

ZWOF Tirana 2026 Albania Solar shadingAlbaniaAdaptive reuseEnvironmental designFaçade expression

Expression starts with environmental logic

Catherine Huang

ZWOF Los Angeles 2026 United States Solar shadingUSAFaçade identityArchitectural narrativeLandscape integration

Façade pattern can carry performance and narrative

Yan Krymsky

ZWOF Los Angeles 2026 United States Solar shadingCurtain wallHigh-rise façadesUSAOffice design

Orientation makes transparency work at Century City Center

John Gralewski & Todd Thongeiam

ZWOF Mumbai 2025 India Solar shadingBiophilic designIndiaArt decoStone façades

Addition and subtraction: two façade strategies for the same Worli street

Mahyar Vaid

ZWOF Mumbai 2025 India High-riseFire safetySolar shadingIndiaCladding

Double-skin shading and fire behaviour: two demands on high-rise cladding

Ashwanii Khanna

ZWOF Sydney 2025 Australia Embodied carbonSolar shadingAustraliaSteel façadesCurtain walling

Cold-formed steel and the case against the unitised curtain wall

Eric Claeys

ZWOF Sydney 2025 Australia Solar shadingParametric designAustraliaFaçade designTerracotta façades

Environmental performance stops hiding behind the glass tower

Marko Damic