Facade is the first component of building that communicates with audience, but it should be examined in all aspects of aesthetics.
The fact that an architect can expose his art of design will create a competition for the presentation of unique and beautiful views and will also make the city look beautiful. This is a necessary condition for facade design, but not enough, and if other design aspects ignored, makes the facade non-functional skin, contrasted with the climate, the function of the structure and other building components. The facade as a part of building should be designed according to factors that acting on them is a design requirement, and even if you are only looking for beauty of facade, you should know that your building’s beauty depends on these requirements.
The design of the building’s façade with the goal of building structure standardizing, it must be perfectly coordinated with the map, building behavior, building performance, structure and, most importantly, the “climatic conditions”, so that do not convert the facade into an unproductive and abusive element.
Facade Compatibility with Structure:
One of the standard features in building design, especially in buildings with different structures, is the coordination of building components with each other, and in order to comply with this standard, body structure should be fitted with structure and roof of the building with a fabric connections The façade framework should have firm connections to the main structure, regardless of which materials are used, and this is so important. Perhaps in many projects, they refuse to pay attention to this matter for a variety of reasons.
Facade Compatibility with Climate:
As noted earlier, one of the most important principles to be considered in design is to pay attention to the weather conditions in the area where the building is to be built. The façade is body of the building’s structure, in that sense, protecting the building and providing the comfort of the inhabitants is it’s responsible. Therefore, in addition to the beauty and coordination with the aforementioned elements, it has to maintain the structure against atmospheric stress in atmospheric conditions. Always the outer cover of the building was a weak point for the climate but this problem has been resolved in the last decade, with a focus on the dry facade performance system.
Facade Compatibility with Plan:
The façade design process is the return movement of the plan to the structure and vice versa, so the particle should be associated with the map. This communication control process, from the start of the building to the exploitation phase, should be applied continuously and also has great importance.
Façade compatibility with structures performance:
Type of façade materials and style used to design the building represents the building character. So from the beginning of the façade design to the material selection and the implementation style, we should consider the type of activity that is supposed to be coordinated with the structure, although today we observe many structures in the city that the smallest coordination between their performance and façade design is not visible.
Today, using lightweight materials, such as aluminum composite sheet, wood, HPL and in the next step, porcelain ceramics, industrial rocks, fiber cement, etc. give different weights to the building’s facade. Also, the durability and preservation of the materials beauty, in first grade porcelain ceramics and in the next stage HPL, aluminum composite sheet and wood, are the items that affect the choice of façade materials type. Nowadays material production new technologies, provides designers and architects modern materials such as Swiss Perl or Gamma Stone. Industrial and equipment improvements have also led to the development of pure metal sculptures and the possibility of creating specific designs for them, and have gained a new generation of special industrial decorative views. Material like metal stretch is also the result of the technological advancements
In the discussion of facade’s compatibility with structure, it is not possible to not discuss the Curtain Wall facade, which has a special structural property and its modulation calculations can greatly simplify the constructors and Static of the Project.
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