The document discusses different types of lightweight cladding systems for building exteriors, including:
- Metal cladding such as continuously supported sheet metal, profiled cladding, and composite panels. Examples given include the Jewish Museum in Berlin and Guggenheim Museum.
- Rainscreen cladding systems which use open joints and drainage planes to allow water to escape. Examples include Bridgewatchers House and the Lock-keeper's Graduate Centre.
- Mesh screens made of materials like stainless steel that can be integrated with lighting or photovoltaic panels for aesthetic and functional purposes. The T-Mobile headquarters and Marina Bay Sands Hotel are discussed.
2. Lightweight Facade
Cladding
What is “Cladding”?
“Cladding” is a word used to
described non-loadbearing external
walls in buildings.
This clearly distinguishes cladding from
load bearing external wall systems,
which form an integral part of the
building structure.
Cladding systems are fixed back to
the main structure of a building, but do
not contribute to its structural integrity.
3. Metal Cladding
Supported Sheet metal
Profiled cladding
Composite panels
Rainscreens
Mesh screens
8. Agora Theatre by UN Studio New Amsterdam Pavilion by UN Studio
Wood Sculpture Museum Harbin China by MAD Sino-Italian Ecological and Energy-Efficient Building
(SIEEB) by Mario Cucinella
9. Profiled cladding
Santa Maria College, Auckland
Jasmax
Panel width : 406 to 760mm
Thickness: 0.5 to 0.7mm galvanised steel
Length : 6 to12m
14. Composite panels
Sainsbury Centre
Foster & Associates
Panel size: up to 7m x 2.5m
Thickness: 10mm to 75mm
Facing material : Aluminium or Steel
Core material : polyurethane
17. Rain screens
Thermal Insulation
Support bracket
Open joints
Supporting frame
Metal rainscreen panels
Waterproof membrane
Backing wall (can be masonry or
Bridgewatchers House, r.c.wall)
Holland, by Bolles and Wilson
27. The T-Mobile headquarters in Bonn, Germany,
uses a metal mesh facade that integrates LEDs
to produce an ever-changing media landscape.
28. Mediamesh has two functions, to be
transparent during the day to allow sunlight
to illuminate the interior office space and
equally so, to transmit day or evening a
video image across the front of the building.
The sleeves are holders for a series of
'transparent aluminum profiles filled with
RGB LEDs and covered to with a waterproof
resin. Can also be integrated with
photovoltaic panels
29. Wind Animated Mesh
External facade of the Marina Bay Sands Hotel
is the small stainless steel "leaves" that flutter
like a digital equalizer and looks even more
beautiful when it creates ripple-like effects.
30. Concert Hall by Toyo Ito Ref: Modern Construction Handbook
by Andrew Watts 2nd Ed