Lightweight Structures

Building Envelopes

Building envelopes separate the interior conditioned spaces and exterior unconditioned environments of buildings, mediating the intake of air, water, heat, light, and noise.

The Lightweight Structures Group creates solutions in collaboration with the Façade Engineering Group using building science approaches to façades and roofs including over cladding and interior shading systems.

From designing the first integrated fabric-shaded glass curtain wall for the Barton Barr Central Library in Phoenix, which recently received the AIA’s 25-Year award, to ETFE enclosures for mid-door spaces, we have demonstrated that lightweight materials are another tool for environmental controls in the sustainability toolbox.

People + Leadership

Nic Goldsmith
Nic Goldsmith
Founding Director, Lightweight Structures Group
AshishSoni
Ashish Soni
Design Director, Lightweight Structures Group