Rusakov Club: When the Auditorium Becomes the Facade
Rusakov Club in Moscow turns a fan-shaped auditorium into three projecting volumes. A reading of audience movement, daylight and the limits of flexibility.
Facades
PRIXFORIX Fassaden Award 2027
PRIXFORIX Fassaden Award 2027 is a Swiss award for completed building envelopes in metal and glass. Architecture offices may enter…
The Owl Does Not Promise a Silent Façade: Testing Wind Noise in Screens and Fins
Owl-wing research shows that fringed and serrated edges can alter aerodynamic noise—but also that the effect may fail when geometry changes. What would a rigorous façade test look like?
The Woodpecker Is a Hammer, Not a Helmet: Testing Impact-Resistant Facades
A woodpecker study overturns a familiar biomimetic claim. ArchUp translates the correction into a test protocol that separates surface survival from force transmitted through a facade assembly.
After the Static Test: Nacre-Inspired Metals and Moving Facade Connections
A titanium fatigue study prompts a testable question for moving facades: does a surface treatment retain its advantage after connection fabrication and assembly?
Extending the Brick Envelope with a Distinct Texture: A Strategy for Differentiating the New Addition in the Quincho Project
Reclaiming the Neglected Space: From “Non-Place” to QuinchoIn Argentina, a “quincho” refers to the space where people gather to eat…
A Form That Changes with the Viewing Angle: Reading Kingdee Tower Between Two Office Wings
A Five-Sided Imprint Slipping Between Two BuildingsThis 211-meter-tall tower stands at the edge of a green belt in Nanshan District,…
Your Building’s Facade Is Aging. The Car Parked in Front of It Is Not.
There is a moment familiar to anyone who has lived in a city growing faster than it can absorb its…
Casa M in São Paulo Preserves the Original Facade Height in Lapa
Spatial Editing and Environmental ReorientationThe architectural intervention is based on reorganizing the spatial relationships of a property that originally consisted…
Façades Electrically Dead… Alive at the Nanoscale
What the physics of confined water reveals about the water-repellent layers we wrap our towers in and assume to be…
Veil House and Its Transformable Architectural Envelope
Spatial Gradation and the Transition from Forest to CoastThe single-level architectural volume maintains a modest presence within the surrounding vegetation,…
The Yards, Covent Garden: The City That Whispers
The Yards is an urban design project occupying over five acres in London’s Covent Garden. Rather than acting as a…
The Building’s Other Footprint
Buildings possess both a physical ground footprint and a dynamic annual shadow footprint created as the sun moves throughout the…
Responsive Industrial Envelope Design
Envelope Scenography and the Site’s Environmental PerformanceThe architectural expression of this project begins with a precise reading of the site’s…
Prospect Place: When Gehry Learns to Live Within a Grid
Ibrahim Fawakherji — ArchUpI recognized him before I knew he was there. Battersea Power StationSouth bank of the Thames, London…
Rêve en suspens: Balconies Shaping the Façade and Mass
The Dialogue of Layered Petals and the Formation of the MassThe balconies in the Rêve en suspens project evolve from…
The Skin That Erodes in Silence
What Research on Skin Acidity Reveals About Our Failure to Design Care Environments for the ElderlyThere is a quiet paradox…
Casa O Uses Contrasting Façades to Shape the Spatial Experience
Massing Contrast Between Spatial Enclosure and OpennessCasa O is conceived around an architectural concept that contrasts two distinctly different façades….
How Medical Gold Nanoparticles Could Redefine Smart Facades
Historically, the use of gold in architecture has been associated with visual luxury, religious symbolism, and authority through gilded domes…
Sweetbird North Explores Revelation and Concealment in Façades
Dynamics of Massing and the Double-Skin FaçadeThe external façade is conceived as a transformative structure within contemporary Architecture that does…
