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January 5, 2021  |  Lab: Research Journals

Wood Cladding for Minnesota’s Bell Museum

Tasked by our client to identify a local wood cladding product that met their institutional and budget goals, we researched several products for a new natural history museum in Minnesota. Ultimately, the Minneapolis Perkins&Will team designed and specified an environmentally responsible building façade assembly that aligns with the client’s budget, values, and aspirations – while... Read more »

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January 5, 2021  |  Lab: Human Experience (Hx), Research Journals

Design for School Safety: An Overview of Crime Prevention through Environmental Design

Given the ongoing climate of fear surrounding gun violence in K-12 schools, safety and security for school facilities have come to the forefront as a top priority for architects and designers. Unfortunately, very little scientific research exists to recommend design approaches that measurably impact school violence rates. This article seeks to provide a brief overview... Read more »

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January 5, 2021  |  Lab: Research Journals, Workplace

Wellness Certifications Matter: A Survey of Occupants of the Perkins&Will Dallas Studio in the Pursuit of LEED, WELL, and Fitwel Certifications

Do wellness certifications make the differences that they claim? Implementing design strategies that only focus on a singular certification, or without factoring sustainability metrics inclusive of occupant wellbeing and comfort, can result in suboptimal and regressive design qualities, and compromise several decades of diligent, high-performing work. Meanwhile, combining multiple rating systems can yield to wholistic... Read more »

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January 5, 2021  |  Lab: Innovation Incubator, Research Journals

Planning for the Best-Case Scenario: Infectious Pandemic Surge and the Intensive Care Unit Program

We currently face a third wave of a COVID-19 Pandemic that threatens to incur more devastating losses than the previous two. The need for an Intensive Care Unit (ICU) that is planned for response to an infectious pandemic surge in a manner that is financially and operationally practical to implement is urgent at present. The... Read more »

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March 5, 2020  |  Lab: Building Technology

Robotic Fabrication of Nail Laminated Timber

Robotics, mass timber, and parametric design are all key technologies that are underutilized in construction. To fully take advantage of these new technologies requires a rethinking of the entire process from design to construction. The Greenbuild Pavilion represents a new construction workflow, in which a digital parametric model is communicated directly to a robot fabricator.... Read more »

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February 12, 2020  |  Lab: Design Process

Parametric Analysis versus Intuition – Assessment of the effectiveness of design expertise

This paper explores through professional case studies how design solutions produced by expert teams compares to those developed through systematic parametric analysis. While the expert intuition of either single designer or teams helps to rapidly identify relevant aspects of the design problem and produce viable solutions, it has limitation to address multi-criteria design problems with... Read more »

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January 22, 2020  |  Lab: Mobility

Multilevel Impacts of Emerging Technologies on City Form and Development

Autonomous vehicles (AVs) are a near future reality and the implications of AVs on city development and urban form, while potentially widespread and dramatic, are not well understood. This report describes the first order impacts, or the broad ways that the form and function of cities are already being impacted by forces of change including⁠—but... Read more »

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January 10, 2020  |  Lab: Research Journals

SOUND PARKS: Invisible Agents of Urban Well-Being

Urban areas are often times subject to elevated levels of noise pollution. Urban noise levels exceeding 55 decibels (dB) can result in negative public health outcomes through chronic/long-term exposure. The design of urban open spaces and parks has been shown to help decrease noise pollution. What remains unclear is to what extent parks attenuate noise pollution and what... Read more »

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January 10, 2020  |  Lab: Research Journals

ESCALATOR SAFETY WITHIN AN OUTPATIENT CLINIC: A Review of Escalator Incidents and Possible Mitigation Strategies

In the U.S., the average rate of escalator incidents per year equals 0.221 accidents per escalator; 0.442 accidents per escalator pairing. Campus wide, a large medical center in the southern United States has reported 19 separate escalator incidents between July 2018 to July 2019—with 9 of those incidents occurring within an on-campus outpatient care clinic. At almost... Read more »

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January 10, 2020  |  Lab: Research Journals

GENESIS OF DESIGN AND FORM: Active Fabrication of Plywood and Latex Composite

This article questions the direct connections between geometry and material behavior of plywood and latex composite, and its structural performance relevance employing an architectural solution. Biology makes use of only remarkably few materials; thus, this investigation works with simple morphological fibers differentiation, density and arrangement to create form with performance, just as successfully observed in nature. The CNC... Read more »

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January 10, 2020  |  Lab: Research Journals

REVOLUTIONIZING THE OFFICE PARADIGM: The Future Net-Zero Energy Office Building

What is the future of the net-zero building? It is not a super-tall tower predicated on technology that does not exist but instead a more thoughtful integration into the existing urban fabric that considers people, communities, and density. This new building typology will be prevalent where governments are encouraging resilient zoning overlays, developers are creating new neighborhoods... Read more »

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