Fourteenth International Conference on Design Principles & Practices

Abstract

There is a very wide range of new materials that are innovations from existing traditional building materials that come forward as skins for building to express architectural concepts of architects. This is very obvious in the creative way of building envelopes used to cover contemporary buildings to solve problems of heat, pollution, sun glare, etc. There are several international, regional, national, and local awards that are awarded to projects to appreciate these efforts. Nevertheless, these prize-winning projects were not analyzed in-depth to get feedback about the coating choices of prize-winning projects that best express their designers’ creative ideas. The main objective of this paper is to recognize the issues of materiality as implemented in the world’s foremost buildings that celebrate architecture. This paper considers awarded projects during the last ten years in order to see which building skins best succeed in expressing the ideas of architects who designed them. Another objective is whether winning materiality or its designers has a home. That is to say, whether the materiality of prize-winning projects and architects have a certain geographical allocation. Another issue is the modeling programs that help designers to achieve their brainwaves. Prize-winning projects can be a good resource for research about architectural new trends including new materiality in the coating of buildings.