Structural Skin
Many prominent, recent buildings feature forms suggesting structural surface while their enclosures are really non-load-bearing curtain wall. At the…
Facades are increasingly being recognized as a major contributor to whole-building embodied carbon. While designers know how to reduce the embodied
For over 60 years architects, engineers, and consultants have been specifying stainless steels for use in building skins and in some structural
Curtain wall is the prevailing type of enclosure on modern buildings because of its economy, its independence from structure that allows flexibility