On October 6,The Architect’s Newspaper’s Facades+ conference series returns toChicago。The event will feature a day-long symposium with eight expert-led presentations. During breaks in the program attendees are encouraged to visit the Methods & Materials exhibition hall where they can speak with industry-leading facade manufacturers. Clickhereto view additional information about the event andregister。
Tribune Tower Conversion: New Faces of an Iconic Chicago Landmark
Chris Pemberton, principal and CEO of Solomon Cordwell Buenz (SCB), and Steve Hubbard, associate principal at SCB, will present therestoration of the historic Chicago Tribune Towerand its conversion into luxury-residential units. The renovation entailed cleaning and repairing the tower’s stone edifice, structural reinforcement, as well as the complete overhaul of the tower’s program to accommodate apartment units.
Curvilinear Envelopes for Healthcare: University of Chicago Medicine
亚基cts fromCannonDesign, including Troy Hoggard, design principal, Craig Booth, principal, and Ben Juckes, computational design lead, will share their work on anew facility for the University of Chicagowhich will consolidate the university’s cancer research under one roof. The team will present technical details related to the design of the building’s glass curtain wall.
Bird Safe Glazing: What Architects Need to Know
In this session, attendees will receive a crash-course inbird-safeenvelope design from Heidi Trudell, a researcher, advocate, and bird-safety consultant, and Jennifer Highfield, architectural design associate atViracon。珍妮弗将讨论advances in bird-safe glazing technology while Heidi will examine the big picture, dispelling the myths that surround bird-safety, sharing best practices for mitigating bird strikes, and explaining Chicago’s bird-safe code requirements.
Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts: Design, Detailing, and Delivery
Studio Gang’sexpansion of the Arkansas Museum of Fine Artsinvolved the restoration of the institution’s original 1937 building, as well as the addition of an elevated glass volume featuring a distinctive folded roof assembly. Angela Peckham, design management director at Studio Gang, and Matt Kuba, associate principal atThornton Tomasetti, will share the design process from the project’s initial conception up to its installation.
Multi-Material Facade Design in Residential High-Rise Construction
This spotlight pairs case studies of two of Chicago’s most recently completed high-rise residential towers. JP Pacelli, project architect atMorris Adjmi Architects, and Natalya Lee, associate atStantec, will present Fulton Row, a brand new residential tower which features an exposed metal exoskeleton in a nod to Chicago’s industrial vernacular. Next, Justin Wortmann, senior associate atPerkins&Willand Peter Eric Siegal, senior vice president at Lendlease, will take the stage to present the Reed, a residential high-rise which is part of the Southbank riverfront master plan.Presenters will discuss facade design as it relates to the residential high-rise typology, as well as efforts to situate new construction within a city’s existing context.
Blended Systems
In this session, Juan Betancur, director at Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture (AS+GG), will discuss the use of blended facade systems to improve building performance. At AS+GG, architects also use the term “multi-tasking facade,” which refers to the many goals of the high-performance envelope—shading, glare reduction, energy generation, ventilation, and more. Betancur will use AS+GG’s built work as examples of these systems. To reflect the firm’s emphasis on research, the presentation will be data-heavy.
Build Better: Facade Design, Material Research, and Embodied Carbon
The day will come to a close with a presentation that brings together sustainability thought leaders from Goettsch Partners (GP) andSOMto speculate on the near future of high-performance envelope design. Travis Soberg, principal and director of sustainability at GP, will begin the session by sharing the embodied carbon metrics calculated for GP’s recent built work. The availability of these figures depend on the location— some nations are more forthcoming withembodied carbondata than others. Next, Natalia Quintanilla, sustainability specialist at SOM, will speculate of the future of low-embodied carbon facade design, drawing from the material research she conducts for SOM.