Los Angeles
November 3-4, 2022
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12 AIA/OAA HSW CEUs
Join us in person at the Sheraton Grand Los Angeles
The premier conference on high performance building enclosures
In its 10th year, Facades+ continues to bring together the world’s most talented building professionals.
We return to Los Angeles with the help of HOK to discuss the latest advances, issues, and technologies driving the AEC community.
Be inspired by presentations and discussion by world-class architects and engineers at the Facades+ Conference.
Here are some of the themes we’ll explore at Facades+ Los Angeles
- Classical Performance Through Modern Computation
- Drawdown: The Decarbonization and Optimization of the Building Envelope
- Mass Timber in California: Climate Conscious Facades
- Delegated Design: Realizing Google Bay View
Day 1
Symposium Presentations
Methods+Materials Gallery
Day 2
Workshops
Earn 4 Additional CEUs
Location
Sheraton Grand Los Angeles
711 South Hope Street
Los Angeles, CA 90017
Featured Speakers
Agenda
Symposium
Times in PST
8:00 – 9:30 AM
9:30 -9:40 AM
8:40 – 8:45 AM
9:50 – 10:10 AM
Mic Patterson, co-founder of the Facade Tectonics Institute will kick off the day with his thoughts on the current state of the building enclosure design, AEC industry challenges, his predictions for the next decade, and his excitement for the world’s first Building Envelope certificate program at USC’s School of Architecture.
10:10 – 10:50 AM
The Dr Allen & Charlotte Ginsburg Human-Centered Computation Hall is the new, state-of-the-art home for the University of Southern California’s Department of Computer Science. This seven-story, 116,000-square-foot complex serves as a living lab for sustainability and an incubator of innovative technologies to help solve global challenges.
The building exterior is a contemporary interpretation of the Italianate Romanesque style of USC’s historic University Park Campus. Featuring a palette of brick and high-performance glazing, the façade responds to the differing environmental conditions and program elements on each orientation. The building’s curtainwalls surround social and collaborative spaces, balancing solar gain, daylight, and views, while providing thermal buffer porches to the laboratories beyond. This allows the building to meet specific energy target goals and enhance occupant health and well-being.
Once complete, the project will become USC’s first LEED Platinum-certified building and will inform the design and construction of campus facilities in the future.
10:50 – 11:00 AM
11:00 – 11:30 AM
12:10 – 12:40 PM
It is a fact that new buildings in California must optimize their operational and embodied carbon. Hear these leaders discuss the challenges and opportunities as the AEC goes into the bold new future of NZE and a decarbonizing envelope design that puts energy first. Patrick Chopson, co-founder of covetool will discuss the opportunities in creating better tools and models and Anne Cotter (ZGF) and Jennifer Hoover (Hensel Phelps) will dive into the recently completed California Air Resources Board’s New Riverside HQ which is the largest true net-zero energy facility of its type.
12:30 – 1:00 PM
This roundtable with leading building materials manufacturers will discuss the advanced materials newly available and just around the corner. Learn how architect’s can work together to build with the latest, most up-to-date technologies and projects
12:40 – 1:30 PM
2:00 – 2:05 PM
Trevor Hall
Southern California National Architect Manager
1:35 – 1:40 PM
Award-winning architects Taller de Arquitectura Mauricio Rocha have produced some of Mexico’s most exciting buildings in the past decades. Learn about Mauricio Rocha’s unique approach to design through some of the most material, textural, and inspired facades.
3:00 – 3:25 PM
2:50 – 3:50 PM
Interest in Hybrid and Mass Timber Structures has taken off across the US, and Southern California has some of the most stunning examples to date. 843 N Spring Street by LEVER Architects and Resnick Sustainability Resource Center at Caltech by Yazdani Studio & CannonDesign will be presented by their designers as they reveal all the details on these nearly complete projects.
4:25-4:55 PM
Complex structures require intense and real-time coordination between designer, engineer, fabricator, and contractor. This complexity requires part of the process be managed by each party in new and novel ways to ensure the delivery of the final project. Join the team responsible for the Google Bay View and how they actually achieved such a complex building envelope and the unique problems they solved.
4:55-5:00
5:00-7:00 PM
Stick around for drinks and light snacks with speakers, exhibitors, and your fellow attendees.
Online Workshops
Times in PST
Pick one of the following tracks and earn up to 4 AIA HSW LU.
8:45 – 9:00 AM
9:00 – 9:05 AM
TRACK A
Materiality, Methods, and Measurement
10:05 AM – 11:05 AM
The Health and Social Sciences (HSS) Building on the University of California San Diego’s historic Muir College was originally constructed in 1970. Soon after construction, the Brutalist building’s precast concrete curtain wall began to fail prompting a series of emergency repair projects over the past fifty years. In 2019 the University determined that a new wall system, designed to match the original in appearance, was required to resolve ongoing life/safety concern and improve performance standards while maintaining the historical integrity of the building. Hear members of the collaborative project team – including the Historic Architect/Conservator, Historic Preservation Planner, Executive Architect, and concrete panel fabricator- as they share design challenges, historic approvals processes, technical solutions, and valuable lessons-learned from the Brutalist façade replacement project.
11:05-12:05 PM
This is a two-part presentation.
PART ONE: Adhered Masonry Seismic Testing – Adhered masonry does not currently meet code. This is because code required inelastic seismic testing does not exist in our industry. Adhered masonry cladding meets a Standard Of Care, but not code. This was confirmed via our Consortium of a dozen architects, structural engineers, enclosure consultants, industry manufacturers, and masonry organizations three years of research. The Consortium set out to test if the cladding system met this seismic code by testing three assemblies on six mockups at a seismic lab in coordination with ASCE-7 committees. The intended audience is any Architect, Structural Engineer, Façade Consultant, Contractor, Owner, Project Manager to know the risks and methodology to reduce that joint risk in using adhered masonry. Testing is to begin summer 2021 and finish Jan 2023-ish.
PART TWO: The Perfect Enclosure Process – We used to have around 75% of our litigation claims relating to water, like most in the industry. For the last 8 years, it has been 0%. One of the main reasons is The Perfect Enclosure Process. We would like to give several ideas that compose our process throughout the life of a project. If one fits your situation, that’s one more idea on how to lower your liability, be more efficient, and have better quality documents, and protect your dwindling fees and staff availability.
Learning Objectives
- Understand why and what the code is requiring of adhered masonry (or any other cladding / glazing system) in resisting inelastic seismic events.
- Understand the methodology used to test.
- Understand the criteria for the test results and how they were derived.
- Understand if adhered masonry meets code and why.
- To learn how an Architect can hurt himself in the name of Building Science and get kicked off a Hospital campus all at the same time.
The Perfect Enclosure Process
- Understand 8 ideas to improve document quality, reduce everyone’s risk, and create more efficiency within your firm
- Understand why the 8 ideas were created and how they have benefited numerous projects.
12:05-1:05 PM
A translucent polycarbonate façade, made of 35% recycled plastic, wraps around an existing building to create a glowing center for the non-profit campus while achieving high levels of durability and sustainability. The Glorya Kaufman Performing Arts Center is a case study of a large-scale deployment of Polycarbonate in a Performing Arts Building. We will discuss the analysis that led to the decision to use polycarbonate, the secondary building systems that enabled the design team to create an asymmetrical façade with a single façade material, the technical detailing and specifications for the materials.
TRACK B
Reaching Sustainability Goals & Optimization
10:05 – 11:05 AM
The presentation explores the different functions of glass systems in tertiary, secondary, and primary structural applications. The redundancy of individual glass sheets will be reviewed in the context of strength and residual stiffness/safety after breakage, and respective code and testing requirements. Glass fabrication will be examined at all stages, including floating, coating, tempering, laminating, and assembling. Case studies will be presented to apply concepts of structural glass design and production to real-world projects.
Learning Objectives
- Analyze the properties, structures and strengths of various glass types.
- Illustrate an understanding of established design philosophies and explain how they are implemented in current codes of practice.
- Identify structural glass applications in primary, secondary and tertiary structures.
- Describe how glass reacts to different stressors and the various methods to prevent or mitigate the risk of collapse.
11:05 AM – 12:05 PM
Building façades are a major contributor to a building’s total carbon footprint, affecting both its energy performance and representing a large proportion of its embodied carbon emissions. These contributions are most often considered separately, which leads to unnecessary tradeoffs and missed opportunities. In this session, representatives from EHDD and KieranTimberlake, the architecture firms behind EPIC and Tally, will describe the interaction between embodied and energy-related emissions, what it means for façade design, and how whole carbon thinking can create actionable strategies for lowering carbon emissions during the design process.
12:05-1:05 PM
Frustrated by loops of rework and wasted time, Perkins & Will envisioned a more collaborative and dynamic feasibility review process for its fabrication and construction partners. A process that would allow more design time and speed up decision. Working with like minded leaders at fabrication partner at Zahner, the two firms invented a shared workspace and feasibility model that produces higher design fidelity, shorter delivery schedules, and more joyful clients and communities. Learn more about this process and how it can be adapted for your work and how process improvements like this can be implemented between many partners for faster, better collaborations.
Learning Objectives
- Discuss the difficulties and roadblocks to faster, higher fidelity collaboration between design, fabrication, and construction.
- Review a collaboration process between two or more firms using this model
- Learn how Apply process improvements to your own firms
TRACK C
Managing Complexity
10:05 – 11:05 AM
Projects within the Healthcare sector are growing in scale, budget and complexity and the transformation of existing buildings particularly, requires novel design visions and collaboration between the design team and construction team. Through the lens of a dramatic transformation of a large healthcare facility, workshop attendees will get insight into how the creative revitalization could be achieved in these complex projects. The design and construction team will describe their envelope design strategies, structural solutions, sustainability approach and construction challenges that the team was able to overcome in the rejuvenation of an aging 1970’s medical office building.
Learning Objectives:
- Describe the innovative envelope design strategies that could be implemented in the transformation of deteriorating existing buildings
- Explore structural design solutions for exterior upgrade of concrete structures with post tensions slabs
- Understand sustainable design strategies for a new façade on an existing building to meet energy efficiency codes
- Establish best construction practices and lessons learned re-skinning an existing and occupied medical facility from the 1970’s
- Learn how to implement Lean culture while performing heavy renovation work on an occupied healthcare campus
11:05 AM – 12:05 PM
High performance can be defined as “a building that integrates and optimizes all major high-performance building attributes, including energy efficiency, durability, life-cycle performance, and occupant productivity”. The term high-performance design typically brings to mind images of a technologically advanced facade and state of the art, energy efficient building systems. Yet durability, life-cycle performance and occupant productivity are equally important attributes of a high-performance building. The Belardi Family Pavilion at City of Hope, which will consolidate campus doctors and their staff, is designed with all these attributes in mind. Situated within a desert landscape, careful consideration is given to the materiality that would ground this project to this Southern California region environmentally and phenomenologically, while also providing a domestic sensibility to the workplace.
This case study will illustrate the evolution of the entire project, from its inception as a Net Zero building, to the current design which is targeting LEED v4 Gold certification. Integral to any successes this project may yield, is the multi-faceted, synchronous design process. A single 3D model serves as the environment in which parametric design evolves simple massing into fully optimized facade into contract documentation. The use of environmental analysis, graphical scripting, daylighting analysis, and real-time visualization temporally co-exist. This dynamic design process allows for rapid development, iteration and validation of high performance concepts as part of this fast track prototype project.
The final design applies aggressive and divergent facade strategies which respond to mitigate or enhance the natural environment. The programmatic and communal goals of the building planning equally influence the exterior appearance of the project and it is this push and pull that is continually informed by analytical process and experiential study. It is this duality that leads to the project’s two visual and functional identities, simultaneously echoing high performance and holistic sustainability.
Testimonials
The FACADES+ conference offers architectural participants at all levels of experience great opportunities. Recent graduates learn from experts and develop a basic understanding of facade issues to share with their colleagues. Seasoned professionals contribute to the development of a richer facade design vocabulary within the profession.
Facades + NYC was a great day filled with engaging discussions and presentations. The keynote on carbon reduction and regenerative design was insightful and a wake-up-call to the architecture profession on the environmental and social impact of our work. Facades+ delivers transformative ideas for the profession.
This year’s Facades+ LA event was impressive. It was a gathering of people seeking knowledge about the integration of environmental excellence in our industry and the work we need to do. Congratulations on the Facades + team and their efforts at putting together an amazing event.
Big thank you to AN’s Facades + Boston and industry partners for an inspirational day packed with inspiring stories, projects, and design excellence for reuse, resilience, health, sustainability, performance, renewal, and community!
I had the pleasure of participating in a panel at Facades+ focused on sustainability and real estate development. The conference provided a unique platform to exchange ideas and insights beyond the traditional architectural perspective. I truly valued the opportunity to learn from the diverse array of professionals present.
Facades+ LA has been an invaluable platform fostering a network of facade and sustainability-minded professionals, offering unparalleled insights and strategies that elevate our collective commitment to environmentally-conscious and inspiring building envelopes.
Facades+ is a great event and the presentations are always very informative. This is my second year attending and I learned something meaningful on both occasions.
Facades+ continues to be the premier event for architects with interesting product showcases and well curated lectures by leaders in the industry!
Over the past 12 years, Facades+ has evolved into a vital voice within the facades industry. Facades+ continues to provide a much needed forum for facade geeks and created a vibrant community we so desperately needed.
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