I will speak this Thursday 4/24/2014 at the BEC Fenestration Symposium in Raleigh, NC. All those who plan to come, please read this article about fenestration. It’s my old article about Glass Coolness published in The Construction Specifier in April 2013. We will talk about this stuff! See you there! Literature pertinent to the topics: Glass […]
Over one year ago I purchased a dilapidated house in Miami. Among many items that required repair, were broken windows. Seeing neighborhood kids throwing rocks at my windows, I realized that the ordinary glass wouldn’t do. I paid extra and reglazed them with polycarbonate glass. It’s something that I recommend to everyone: for approximately $100, […]
Here is a yawning cat in a window in the Rotterdam Cube House, designed by architect Piet Blom. Technically speaking, this is not a window, it’s a skylight, due to its tilt.
Cats have the uncanny ability to jump vertically to negotiate a window via its transom, which is normally ventilated. This is a nice, handmade, wooden, compartment window, a superior design developed in early 20th century, affording good thermal and acoustic properties.
A little background for our American friends: Europeans suffer from excessively air-tight living spaces (while Americans still busily try to figure out how to increase the air tightness). The typical perimeter hardware of an European window allows for untying the window, securing it with a small gap at the top. In this case, it was […]
In the battle between thermal and visual comfort, the thermal wins.
Old wooden window with split panes, square cut corners, and wooden lintel. The wall below the sill is built of stone, and the wooden sill and bottom rails of sashes are rotten and covered with moss.
Apparently, the fabricator got a wrong width, and the only way to install the window, was to place it diagonally.
Apparently, the fabricator confused height with width, resulting in this in-swinging side-by-side window installed wrong way.
Windows are as old as buildings, the word itself derived from the ancient Norse language in times when Vikings raided North Europe. How to design a window? How should an architectural glass be chosen? Vikings are long gone, and we found the knowledge remains common among architects in the North Europe, but has not spread much […]
3D Thermal Modeling
Condensation Risk Assessment
Facade Access
Facade Engineering. How To Design a Functional Building Enclosure
Facade Impact Resistance Manual
Foggy Glass Disease
How To Write and Read a Forensic Report
In Support of Glazed Curtain Walls
Movements and Tolerances
Review of Curtain Walls, Focusing on Design Problems and Solutions
Transitions: How to Design Facade Interfaces
When You Need A Window – Solar Design
Curtain walls
Curtain walls, their fundamental classification, and challenges and solutions associated with them…
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Façade Engineering With Glass
How to use the glass to achieve the desired architectural goals, and what advances in technology help to shape the modern architecture…
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Hot and Humid Climate and Hurricane considerations in Building Enclosure Design
Discusses hazards and perils such as: flood, posthurricane scarcities, sun, rain, humidity, temperature, wildlife, wind, windborne debris, etc.
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Principles of Facade Design
Design and engineering of building enclosures…
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Sloped glazing
Typical challenges and solutions associated with sloped glazing and skylights…
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Storefronts
Presents challenges associated with the outdated design and engineering…
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Thermal Engineering in Building Envelope Design
Presents the basic thermodynamics concepts with respect to building envelopes…
0 3D Thermal Modeling Condensation Risk Assessment Facade Access Facade Engineering. How To Design a Functional Building Enclosure Facade Impact Resistance Manual Foggy Glass Disease How To Write and Read a Forensic Report In Support of Glazed Curtain Walls Movements and Tolerances Review of Curtain Walls, Focusing on Design Problems and Solutions Transitions: How to Design Facade Interfaces When You Need A Window – Solar Design