This project by Bruther and Baunkunst perfectly embodies the concept of integration in architecture, where the structural system, building services, and envelope do not merely coexist but actively interact and reinforce one another.
Pay attention to how this elegant wooden curtain wall resolves the front of the slab, ensuring the appropriate fire sectorisation and minimizing the need of transoms. A simple wooden rib closes from the inside the gap between the pavement and the glass.
We love those examples that shake the taxonomical tool that organizes this website. In this occasion, the case does not question the order at the taxonomy but thins the rotundity of the lines between areas.
B720 architects propose a stick wooden curtain wall where mullions and transoms reach the building site already assembled in a big format component. We cannot say it is a unitized system, it is just a frame composed by complex profiles.
Interesting and well resolved wooden stick curtain wall, mostly for the students of architecture consulting this website. In this curtain wall façade “everything happens”: we have a shading device anchored to the mullions; an exterior catwalk; a corner opening without mullion; a big offset from the concrete slab to the curtain wall starting; a watertight continuity situation with a brick parapet. Understand it all, you will learn a lot!!
A highly prefabricated system reproducing the image of a traditional brick work. (Like in case Light prefabricated “brick” work).
The challenge is erecting a new building in an old neighbourhood being respectful with the image and material character of the surrounding buildings.
An interesting double skin glass facade. A fully glazed inner skin with minimal structural profiles, and an outer one that gives a new rhythm to the building.
The cutting in half of the glass panels of this outer skin, and its placement - varying the angle with respect to the front of the façade - distorts both the scale and the image reflected in the glass.
One more classic, an exceptional building and an exceptional facade.
Rafael de la Hoz gives us this risky solution of a double skin façade where the open-jointed outer glass layer is supported only by glass ribs. A minimal and elegant solution for an amazing building.
Observe how the outline of the building fades into the sky thanks to the ethereal glazed corona that surrounds it.
We want to use the case of this residential building in Barcelona to highlight the huge number of substructures that appear in many buildings so as to support the various enclosures, divisions, cladding, or finishing elements.
In the specific case of this façade, we have a substructure for the balconies glass doors, plus the substructure of the glass banister in some points, plus the substructure of the slab lining, plus the substructure on the top of the large curved glass that closes the ground floor, and so on.
The complexity of such an enormous building would permit referring to different facades. In this occasion we just want to share with you some images of the erection of the facades solved with unitized panels. A single skin in one case and a double one in the other.
If the tendency is to fill our architecture with all type of gadgets so as to self-produce the energy the users need for their wellbeing, we need to accept that either the building on its global formalisation, or some of the systems being used for its construction, need to integrate those productive gadgets.
Energetic productivity is a design requirement.