Seattle
December 2, 2022
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6 AIA/OAA HSW CEUs
Join us in person at the Motif Seattle
The premier conference on high performance building enclosures
In its 10th year, Facades+ continues to bring together the world’s most talented building professionals.
Facades+ Seattle brings the latest technologies, ideas, and inspiration for building envelope design to the Pacific Northwest. With the help of NBBJ’s Seattle leadership, you’ll learn about the latest in daylighting research, energy modelling, facade design and technologies for both large scale and smaller scale projects. Spotlight presentations will feature UW’s Integrated Design Lab’s work on Daylighting and Seattle’s Future Forward Building Codes. Join us for a complete day of peer-learning, networking to keep you at the forefront of practice.
Here are some of the themes we’ll explore at Facades+ Seattle
- New Lease on Life: Façade Renewal & Adaptive Reuse as Winning Strategy
- Fabrication Futures: Advances in Materials for Building Envelope Excellence
- Light and Air: Daylighting and Optimization
- Community, Collaboration and Connection: Three Towers in the Puget Sound Region that are Redefining the High Rise
Morning
Symposium Presentations
Methods+Materials Gallery
Afternoon
Workshops
Earn up to 6 CEUs
Location
Motif Seattle — A Hyatt Hotel
1415 Fifth Avenue
Seattle, WA, 98101
Featured Speakers
Symposium
Friday, December 2 – Times in PDT
8:00 – 9:30 AM PDT
9:40 – 10:40 AM
Leaders from Perkins&Will will discuss two adaptive reuse & renewal projects. In Anchorage, Alaska, a 50 year old building damaged by an earthquake is being reimagined as an iconic tower inspired by ice and light. The high-performance shell and core renovation will fortify and expand the structure while enhancing a civic corner. In Seattle, a new seven-story office tower was added to the historic Federal Reserve Building, whose structure was renovated to meet current seismic requirements and energy codes.
10:40 – 10:45 AM
10:45 – 11:15 AM
11:15 AM – 12:05 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 with their suppliers to build with the latest, most up-to-date technologies and projects, and hear what’s next for the industry.
12:05 – 1:00 PM
1:00 – 1:30 PM
Christopher Meek and Teresa Moroseos of the University of Washington’s Integrated Design Lab will discuss the energy question as it relates to the design process through advancements in energy modelling, daylighting, and the path to more climate responsive and high-performing buildings
1:30 – 2:30 PM
Join experts from McKinstry, RDH Building Science, & Mithun in a conversation featuring strategies for facade optimization using advanced modelling techniques. Through a series of case studies, including 840 Spokane and Catalyst, this panel will cover tools for studying shading, daylighting, building performance, and thermal comfort, with environmental concerns like material selection and embodied carbon at the forefront of facade considerations even at early stages of design.
2:30 – 3:00 PM
3:00 PM – 4:00 PM
The high rise is essential to cities, enhancing efficiencies by maximizing space on tight urban sites, while providing a unique presence on the skyline. However, high rise towers can isolate inhabitants, neglect the streetscape, and disconnect people from nature. At the same time, bringing these buildings online can be inefficient and unsustainable, with designs that don’t effectively address users’s needs. How can the next frontier of high rise towers address these issues through sustainable and high performance design, creating buildings that better speak to community, client, and user preferences?
This session will explore key insights from the creation of three innovative towers in the Puget Sound region designed by NBBJ: Rainier Square in Seattle’s Central Business District, Bellevue 600 in Bellevue, and The Net in downtown Seattle. Design leaders will share takeaways from each project’s development through the lens of customization and collaboration. They will examine how each project is tailored to clients’ and users’ unique needs, and how close partnerships with consultants and contractors drove sustainable facade and structural innovations to create environments that enhance wellness, connection and community.
4:00 – 4:30 PM
Seattle’s progressive building code is driving change in building envelope design and Duane Jonlin leads a process that is making Seattle one of the most forward thinking municipalities for building performance and reducing embodied carbon. Learn more about the specific details and unique opportunities in the evolution of the code.
4:30 – 4:40 PM
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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