Curtain wall facade: Another material used for dry facade, which is due to its beauty and unique nature, considered by renowned architects.
Curtain wall is a clear cover for modern buildings that do not carry dead loaded from the building, and only the weight they bear is its own weight and the wind force on it. This facade is a combination of glass and aluminum, which is easily manageable because of its durability and long life due to engineering sealing, professional insulation against atmospheric conditions and energy inside the building. Curtain wall facade is resistant to earthquake, storm, robbery, heat, fire and …, and has left designers open to design. But there are limitations in the arched sections, which should be used by small units for these parts. In general, if you are looking for a durable, special and enticing structure to run on your building, our experts will suggest Curtain wall to you.
Everything you want to know about Eco Arc Co.’s Curtain Wall facade:
Regarding to the Curtain Wall architecture, its implementation, advantages and comparisons with other glass facade systems
Curtain Wall Facade – Lamella Facade:
Lamella’s facade, or Curtain Wall, is one of the most modern building architectural systems that has a static structure, it means that the high load of glass weight falls on the Curtain wall structure or the lamellas and chassis, and the dead load resulting from the weight of the glass and the load of energy from the wind, storm, etc. will not notice the building. The so-called Lamella’s system is a self-static structure.
Curtain wall facade is one of the glass views of the building with coating system by self-static structure. In fact, the Curtain Wall view is the best building glass facade in terms of structural issues at altitude. This kind of facade is usually made of light materials, especially combination of aluminum and glass.
What is lamella?
Curtain wall facade aluminum structure or indeed the same aluminum profiles that the glass is mounted on them, called lamella.
In the Curtain wall facade, lamellas are provided in horizontal and vertical sections. The horizontal lamellas are “Transom” and the vertical are “mullion”. It should be noted that in the implementation of Curtain Wall systems, transom (horizontal lamellas) is usually smaller in length than the mullion (vertical lamellas), but the width of the lamellas must be equal. The existence of this size difference across the lamellas was due to the fact that most glass loads would be on the vertical lamellas (mullion), but on the horizons of some designers and architects, and because of the elevation of the visual aesthetic of inside, depending on the elegance in design and architecture, Transom and Mullion longitudinally size, are considered equal.
Lamella Various Types:
Lamellas provided by Eco Arc Co., under the license of RAICO Germany + THERM brand; Different types are classified into material quality in the following categories:
- Aluminum Curtain Wall
- Steel Curtain wall
- Timber Curtain wallLamellas Insulation:Lamella facade is designed in such a way that it can be insulating as much as possible and protect the building against the atmospheric and environmental forces of the area. For this purpose, in the design of aluminum sections (lamella), there are grooves that can be attached to the structure to apply EPDM tires to the Thermal Break. To increase the level of work insulation, some curtain-wall systems are also used for polyamide rubber, and the use of Thermal Break in any Curtin-Wall system will be designed specifically for the system itself. For example, in the Cover Cap system, the polyamide is placed on the lamella, but in the frame of the Full Frameless system, the polyamide is inserted into lamella, and it can be said in some way that the steps of making this system separate from Other systems will be. Lamella facade systems are highly insulated because of the appearance and application of thermal insulations, and permeability in this system is not feasible.The lamellas are produced at Eco Arc Co.’s factory before the implementation of the Curtin Wall facade, and then will be sent to the workshop. It should be noted, in the Unitization implementation system, all installation steps will be carried out at the factory and only installation of the lamella on the building will take place at the workshop.The most important advantages of the Curtain wall facade are as follows:
- Lightweight structure and reduced building dead load
- Increase the amount of light entering the building
- Reducing energy consumption
- High speed run
- Full moisture, heat and sound insulation
- Easy to combine with other facade systems
- Possibility to run prefabricated or semi prefabricated
- Variety of features and system appearance options
- Beautify and add special modern effects at night and day
- Possibility to install a variety of pop-up models on it
- Reducing the costs of operating and maintaining the building
- Components high quality
- Providing resident’s comfort
- Suitable tension behavior against earthquake force
- Curtain Wall Façade:
- In fact, the Curtain wall facade of the dry batches is a ventilating facade that has a distinct beauty over the previous generation of the frame less facade on iron (old iron frame less system that has several sealing and airborne problems)Another case that should be mentioned about Curtain wall is that the Curtain wall lamella’s aluminum structure has ability to install other coverage materials such as composite aluminum sheet or structural calculation of the ceramic facade.
Aluminum:
Aluminum beauty and anodize ability in a variety and specific colors adds benefits to the curtain wall. Curtain wall facade is manufactured industrially and the entire aluminum structure of the Curtain wall facade seamlessly works in a flexible way against variety of building stresses such as earthquake, wind, building subside possibility, etc., and Its main advantage is the unique aluminum capability It can be extruded in different sections according to the designed datasheets, which cannot be compared with any other materials in terms of manufacturing lamellas for sealing or mounting seals and airtight tires on it. (We also recommend read the composite façade page.)
Types of Architectural Systems of Curtain Wall Façade:
This section explains the types of overall appearance of the building through the Curtain wall facade. This issue is important for architects and designers in terms of the façade appearance of the visible and unobtrusive visual lines rate.
Types of solutions for creating general architectural lines and the design of Phase 2 in the Curtain wall glass facade depend on two main factors, including the structural strength of the facade and the predicted visible lines by the architect of the project. The implementation of these architectures general lines in the curtain wall or aluminum lamella curtain wall is executed in a general way with a Retaining cap (FACECAP) and without cap (FRAMELESS).
As noted, the selection of Curtin-Wall systems for implementation is dependent on two strengths and visible lines, which are performed in frameless facades (without visible lines) using two u-channel and frame-based systems..
Types of Curtain wall FRAMELESS system:
In the frameless model, each of the glass jambs has a frame that framed behind the glass and kept on the lamella with special aluminum flutes, and only the seam between the glasses will be visible from the outside. The main feature of the frameless facade is that the glass surface is continuously seen.
- Curtain wall frameless u-channel system
This system is commonly known as one of the lightweight and cost-effective systems that technically does not recommend its implementation in high-rise buildings. Due to the type of connection of the glass and the load bearing capacity in this system, the dimensions of the modules it should be considered as limited and low-altitude.
- Framed system
This system is known as a high-reliability and trustable method in frameless facade, Given that in this system the glass is assembled at the glass production plant on aluminum frames Connected and installed in the form of ready-made panels at the project site on the modules formed by horizontal and vertical lamellas, as well as accelerating the facade implementation plays a significant role. It is worth noting that in some producing aluminum profiles company’s design, it is possible to turn any of the modules into a secret opening only by adding the necessary fittings and there is no need to reproduce these openings.
Retaining cap system (FACECAP):
In the Curtain wall facade system_ Covered lamella, the glass is placed directly on the lamellas structure and fixed cap holders from the outside of glass. The EPDM tires that used in this system fully seal and airborne the glasses at the connecting points. It is possible to install various caps with a width of 5 cm and a variety of lengths and shapes on lamellas.
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