Perhaps one of the most famous examples of double-skin facades is Foster+Partners' 30 St Mary Ax Building, "The Gherkin." The airflow through the intermediate cavity can occur naturally or be ...

Canted in both plan and section, each glazed unit was intended ... Working together, the project team developed a closed cavity facade (CCF) system in which each shingle would comprise a double-skin ...

The outer layer of the double-skin facade for the Design Hub at the Royal Melbourne Institute ... These are made of stainless steel blades approximately 1/8 inch square in section with 1/16-inch gaps ...

The prefab wooden facades are sheathed in untreated pine slats, which will gradually develop a silvery patina over time. Sliding wooden shutters are built inside the gap of the timber layers.

This paper introduces and analyzes the passive preheating natural ventilation double skin facade (DSF) comprehensively. The influence of the structural parameters of the double skin facade in cold ...

The new 62,300-square-foot building forcefully anchors Washingtonplatz, a stone’s throw from Berlin’s central train station, and dazzles passersby with its fully glazed, double-skin facade ...