DESIGNING VENTILATED FACADES WITH ARCHITECTURAL ULTRA HIGH PERFORMANCE CONCRETE

摘要

The opaque walls of our buildings have become more complex over the past decade while becoming thinner and lighter at the same time. The history of building has progressed from piling up of heavy, solid materials to thinner and lighter strategically layered separations of the inside and outside. The industrial age and modern aesthetic brought lighter constructions and celebrated extreme thinness. Our walls now are mostly air—composed of a series of thin planes measured in centimeters or less, held together and apart by slivers of folded metal measured in millimeters or less. It is not by chance that we have become so keen on the qualities and characteristics of "surfaces."