40多年来，PCPA通过开发新颖的外围护系统，成为高表现力和高性能建筑表皮的开创者和推动者之一。通过研究性设计和多方合作，PCPA推动了从隔热玻璃到热阻断铝框架的多个系统及其组成部分的开发与进化。

For over 40 years, Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects (PCPA) has pioneered high-profile and high-performance façades by developing novel enclosure systems for curtainwall and storefront projects. Through research and development, PCPA advances existing systems and their constituent parts, from insulated vision glass to thermally-broken aluminum framing.

在过去的二十年里，PCPA通过与领先的陶瓦制造商的合作实践，越来越多地将陶瓦融入创新的建筑表皮设计中。陶瓦材料提供协同优势，具有独特的材质特性且与雨幕设计手法相得益彰：

1. 节能——比砖更薄，墙体保温性能更佳

2. 轻盈——比石材更轻，塑形潜力大

3. 颜色和表面——釉面和纹理变化多样，超过金属

4. 维护和耐用性——釉料安全且耐久。

Over the last two decades, PCPA has increasingly incorporated terra cotta into these advanced façades by collaborating with leading ceramic fabricators on specific projects. Terra cotta offers synergistic advantages that distinguish the material and make the ceramic uniquely suited for designing rain screens:

1. Energy savings – thinner than brick, it affords greater wall insulation;

2. Lightness – shaping into lighter volumetric forms than stone;

3. Color and Surface – glazing and texture variations exceed those of metal;

4. Maintenance and Durability – glazes are color-safe and weather resistant.

PCPA 通过持续多年地参与位于纽约州布法罗的ACAW（建筑陶瓦装配工作坊），深化了将陶瓦作为新型建筑材料的实验性研究。让我们一起来看看这几年的研究成果：

PCPA has deepened this work through more experimental research at the ACAW (Architectural Ceramics Assembly Workshop) in Buffalo, NY.

2018年，PCPA董事/合伙人Craig Copeland与艺术家、学生和行业领袖一起参加了以"激进与形态"为主题的ACAW工作坊。

In 2018, Craig Copeland, principal at PCPA, joined artists, students, and industry leaders, to participate in ACAW, under the banner: Radical / Matter.

在陶瓷艺术家Josh Stein和Andy Brahman的带领下，工作坊探索了对烧制和湿粘土挤型的干预。团队尝试回答这个问题：“从概念和字面上来理解：打破传统陶土挤型的设计可能性是什么？”团队尝试多种概念和结合专业意见的指导，对原材料挤型进行探索。

Headed by ceramic artists Josh Stein and Andy Brayman, Radical / Matter explored interventions with fired and wet clay extrusions. The team sought to answer the question, “What are the design possibilities of opening up the convention of extrusion: both conceptually and literally?” Treating the extrusion as raw material for interrogation, the team’s process integrated multiple explorations, voices, and expertise throughout the workshop.

团队在参与19年工作坊时延伸了18年的概念，加入了新成员Studios Architecture和Walter P. Moore，继续对陶瓦材料的创新进行探索。这一年，团队将机械臂引入制造过程，研究通过动态挤压潮湿状态的粘土开发新型的陶瓦雨幕。

Dynamic Terra Cotta expanded upon the team’s conclusions from Radical / Matter. Adding new collaborators, Studios Architecture and Walter P. Moore, the team sought to develop novel terra cotta rainscreens through dynamic extrusion processes that applied robotic interventions to clay in its wet state.

2020年8月，由董事/合伙人Craig Copeland和纽约办公室成员Pedja Bilinac、Zhe Huang、Kristin Hopkins-Clegg和Brad Loew领导的PCPA团队参加了第五届ACAW工作坊，并且再次与Studios Architecture和Walter P. Moore合作。团队设计和开发了一套完整的模块化的设计构件并严格探索了其上釉的颜色和材质。在仔细遵循COVID-19 相关规定的同时，PCPA 团队3天内在波士顿陶瓦装配间完成了两组不同的陶瓦模块化拼装设计。

In August of 2020, PCPA, led by Craig Copeland, Pedja Bilinac, Zhe Huang, Kristin Hopkins-Clegg, and Brad Loew, participated in the fifth annual ACAW, once again teaming with Studios Architecture and Walter P. Moore. The team developed a kit of parts and rigorously explored glazing options. While carefully following COVID-19 Protocols, the PCPA team completed two distinct ceramic assemblies over 3 days at Boston Valley Terra Cotta.

这一研究延续至今，并重点关注三个目标：

1. 通过对称烧制创建更加结实耐用的面板

2. 开发允许可控变化的工业规模制作流程

3. 改进上釉细化的形状和纹理

The research is ongoing today and focuses on three goals:

1. Create more true panels with symmetrical firing

2. Develop a process that allows controlled variation on an industrial scale

3. Incorporate glazing refinements for shape and texture

在科研之外，PCPA持续致力于推动高性能建筑表皮的设计与应用，将越来越多极具表现力的陶瓦雨幕纳入实际项目中。可持续陶瓦构造作为特色元素被应用在PCPA的三个项目中：位于美国纽约的中央广场和梦想者塔楼，以及位于华盛顿特区的宾夕法尼亚大道2100号项目。

Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects continues advancing high-performance façades, increasingly incorporating expressive terra cotta rainscreens. The resulting sustainable ceramic assemblies are featured elements in three recent projects: The Centrale, New York, NY; The Visionaire, New York, NY; and 2100 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, DC.

值得一提的是，通过多个开创性的项目，PCPA已成为可持续建筑设计领域的领军者之一。早在美国绿色建筑委员会建立其绿色建筑评估体系—LEED之前，团队就已将可持续发展理念纳入设计当中。这些过往项目包括美国首个获得LEED铂金级认证的住宅塔楼、欧洲首个LEED铂金级超高层建筑、以及最近的意大利首个近零能耗建筑等。

引领未来建筑发展趋势、践行可持续发展需要持续不断的研究和探索。PCPA将持续致力于多项城市与建筑设计领域的科研创新。未来，让我们共同期待。

Pelli Clarke Pelli has been a leader in environmentally sustainable design for over a decade. Our designs included sustainable strategies even before the U.S. Green Building Council established its Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) program. The firm’s work includes the first residential tower in the United States to achieve obtain LEED platinum certification, Europe’s first LEED platinum-rated high-rise building, and, most recently, the first Nearly Zero-Energy Building in Italy.

Building the future of cities and architecture requires dedicated research and exploration of today. PCPA will continue its several R&D programs towards innovation in the field of urban and architectural design.