The design-build team worked closely with facade fabricator and installer Kovach—a frequent collaborator of SmithGroup with prior project experience on the campus—to develop the sunshade system, ...

Zaha Hadid Architects has unveiled plans to create a modular housing complex off the coast of Honduras with curved roofs and rounded balconies that can be customised by residents.

For the shading requirements of the building, Behnisch Architekten developed a set of parametric guidelines for Rhino, Grasshopper, and AutoCAD.

A parametric model, for example, could be used to grow a solution to a problem, like sun shading that grows itself on a model of a building in response to sunlight, surrounding buildings ...

Thornton Tomasetti developed a parametric facade panelization model that consolidated and synchronized information in required for architectural documentation and specialty construction.

The variation in the form of the shading systems was designed to offer legibility to the architectural expression with each facade tailored to suit its solar orientation. Lightweight aluminium with a ...

Clad in light aluminum fins that provide 100 percent shading to 95 percent of the glazed surfaces, Siemens’ new headquarters at Masdar City is also embedded with several of the corporate giant ...

- Parametric Components The facade system includes solar energy gathering, shading, vertical greenery, wind cooling, irrigation and shading.

For Abu Dhabi’s newest pair of towers, Aedas Architects have designed a responsive facade which takes cultural cues from the “mashrabiya”, a traditional Islamic lattice shading device.