Glass facades of buildings - what is good about this design?
This hinged glass construction represents another shell, which is put on the whole building of the building. Such a shell necessarily has a well-thought-out ventilation of the space between the supporting structure and the hinged structure. Special complex frames help create a unique image of lightness and modernity, taking into account the features and tastes of customers.
During the existence and development of the facades of buildings from glass, various frame and frameless systems of realization have been obtained: rack and cross members, structural and semi-structural, combined, frame facade and roof, planar or spider systems.
The latter are a real "squeak of fashion" and yet remain the most modern, having a hidden invisible skeleton, giving the maximum effect of light transparency and airiness of the entire building monolith.
Houses with glass facade look much more modern than usual, their aesthetics are beyond doubt. Thanks to such shells, the buildings are well protected from external atmospheric factors, quite aggressive in the conditions of modern megacities. In the internal premises of these houses it is easier to maintain a favorable habitat, a constant microclimate with the possibility of economical management of its parameters.
There are savings on air conditioners and heaters, other life support systems that are mandatory for conventional facilities. The shell, which houses the load-bearing structure of the house, protects against wind loads, precipitation, direct sunlight. In addition, its illumination can be controlled and regulated in a variety of ways.
Facades of buildings from glass - shortcomings of the construction novelty
Negative point can be considered an increase in the cost of cleaning the surfaces of the glass, which is approximately four times more. This is if you consider except for the windows and the front glass panels. In addition, their external and internal surfaces have a much larger area. The need for cleaning arises whenever cooling external surfaces to the dew point.
This leads to condensation on the inner sides of the panels. The use of special desiccants, etc., somewhat reduces the intensity of its loss. However, these features make certain requirements in the design of system load-bearing profiles and frameworks: they must provide the possibility of maintenance of the entire hinged system.
One of the drawbacks of glass systems is the need for a very accurate calculation of the ventilation of the space between the main walls and the hinged shell. This applies primarily to high-rise buildings. Mandatory vertical flows may be interrupted, especially in the summer, by the horizontal floor-to-floor direction of the air mass movement.
The reliable fastening of glass facades is also important, representing( in view of the number and weight of the hung glass up to twelve millimeters thick) a real threat to pedestrian and traffic on the streets around such a building.
However, modern designs of steel, glass and aluminum have a design life of at least a hundred years, are not afraid of moisture and do not corrode, and also have an extremely high fire safety.
Glass facades - use in residential buildings
It should be taken into account that the technology of using glass structures, becoming more accessible, is gradually moving from the area of high-rise construction and spreading to houses of small storeys. And it can not be said that it is profitable, but there are still progressive masters who are ready to build on the latest technology.
In this case, if a cold profile for glass facades is used more often on the skylights, made of steel or aluminum, then for warm floors, especially for private houses, warm aluminum profiles are used. Of course, the use of such a profile is primarily due to the functional purpose of the room.
It is such a warm aluminum profile is necessary for the installation of mobile walls of glass. These sliding glass facades of the houses are modern constructions that reliably cover the heat-insulating folding transparent wall with an area of up to seventy square meters.
The system parameters, with a warm aluminum profile and double-glazed windows, allow you to keep the room temperature in a room with forty-degree frost outside. The same design of the sliding system can be made from a cold profile. In this case, the external coating of aluminum structures can be carried out at the request of the customer. The material for the frames can also be wood of mahogany, walnut or pine.
Reliable guiding and rotary mechanisms are complemented by the most modern systems for reliable multiple jointing of glass panel joints. Similar constructions are successfully used for loggias, verandas, swimming pools and other elements of house designs.
