ABCM CASESTUDIES

BY:
RAJINI BODDU-04
SHRUTI PATIL-30
INTRODUCTION - CURTAIN WALLS
• It is the exterior wall or covering of a
building where by the wall is nonstructural.

• Although the term is sometimes restricted to

metal framed curtain walls, the above
definition embraces many different
construction methods and materials
including non-loadbearing precast concrete.

Characteristics of a curtain wall.

•Typically non-structural.

•Keeps people in and weather out.

•Allows for the penetrations of natural light

into the building.

•Doesn’t carry any dead weight from the

building besides its own dead weight.
TYPES OF CURTAIN WALLS
1. Stick curtain wall
2. Unitized curtain wall
3. Panelized curtain wall
Stick Systems
4. Spandrel panel ribbon glazing
5. Structural sealant glazing
6. Structural glazing

Unit Systems

Unit-and-Mullion
Systems

Column-Cover-and-
Spandrel Systems
CHOOSING BETWEEN STICK and UNITIZED CURTAIN WALLSSYSTEMS
SELECTION CRITERIA STICK CURTAIN WALL UNITIZED CURTAINWALL
PROJECT SIZE SMALL LARGE
WALL CONFIGURATION COMPLEX MONOLITHIC
(MANY CHANGES IN PLANE (LARGE EXPANSES OF
E.G SOFFITS, CORNERS FLAT WALL)
ETC)
JOINT PATTERM RANDOM UNIFORM HORIZONTAL
SILL LINE
GLAZING FIELD FACTORY
INTER-STORY VERY LIMITED INTERLOCKING FRAMES
MOVEMENT ACCOMMODATE
MOVEMENTS
QUALITY CONTROL SUBJECT TO SITE CONTROLLED FACTORY
VARIABLES (BOTH CONDITIONS
ENVIRONMENT AND
EQUIPMENT)
MODIFICATION CAN BE CUT-TO-FIT IN THE PRE-ENGINEERED
FIELD
SEALING SUBJECT TO SITE MINIMAL FIELD SEALING
VARIABLES
FIELD LABOR COST HIGH LOW
(MANY PARTS TO TRACK
AND ASSEMBLE)
FIELD LABOR SLOW FAST
DURATION (OFTEN SETTING 75SQFT
OR MORE PER UNIT)
ACCESS AND SAFETY EXTERIOR ACCESS SET FROM THE INTERIOR
REQUIRED (EXTERIOR OPTIONAL)
 CANOPY AND CURTAIN WALLS
CASESTUDIES

NATIONAL INTERNATIONAL
CASESTUDIES CASESTUDIES
SPERTUS
INSTITUTE OF
CURTAIN JEWISH STUDIES
WALLS CHICAGO

CANOPY
INTERNATIONAL CASE STUDY
-SPERTUS INSTITUTE OF JEWISH
STUDIES CHICAGO
1. FEATURES IN THE CURTAIN WALL :
STRUCTURAL, PREGLAZED, SILKSCREENED
INSLUATING GLASS UNITS IN MULTIPLE
SHAPES MOUNTED ONTO STICKBUILT
MULLIONS OF EXTRUDED ALUMINIUM
2. THE BUILDINGS MAIN FAÇADE MEASURES
24.4M BY 55.2 M AND IS CLAD ENTIRELY IN A
FOLDED , FACETED CUSTOM GLASS
CURTAIN WALL
3. THE GLASS IS FACTORY GLAZED ALONG
EACH EDGE WITH A STRUCTURAL SILICONE
SEALANT THAT ADHERES IT TO A MINIMAL
FRAME OF EXTRUDED ALUMINIUM . THESE
UNITS ARE THEN MOUNTED ONTO Y-
SHAPED ALUMINIUM MULLIONS ,
SPANNING VERTICALLY FROM FLOOR TO
FLOOR THAT BEND AAND TWIST
• THE CURTAIN WALL
INCORPORATES 726 INDIVIDUAL
PIECES IF GLASS IN 556
DIFFERENT SHAPES
• PORTIONS OF UNDULATING
WALL PROJECT OUTWARD BY 1.5
M AND INWARD BY 0.6M
• WITH SUCH VARIATION IN
ORIENTATION , THE GLASS
SURFACES SIMULTANEOUSLY
TRANSMIT AND REFLECT
SUNLIGHT THROUGH AND
ACROSS THE FAÇADE
• THE DOUBLE-PANE INSULATING
GLASS INCLUDES A HIGH
PERFORMANCE LOW-E COATING
ON THE SECOND SURFACE FOR
IMPROVED THERMAL
PERFORMANCE AS WELL AS A
SILKSCREENED PATTERN OF
WHITE CERAMIC FRIT DOTS FOR
SOLAR SHADING COVERING 40
PERCENT OF THE SURFACE
INTRODUCTION – CANOPY