This week has been an interesting week. I have been thinking of the idea of using curtain walls for my project in Studio. Curtain walls hang off of a building and have to be applied correctly or a lot of disasters could happen with that building. They don't carry the dead loads of the building and they should contain the shield and the wrap. However on my studio project I didn't know much about curtain walls so I kinda trashed the idea because I didn't want to use them incorrectly. This week has been interesting because in building science we had a more in depth lesson on curtain walls. Now i seem more confident in using them; however, I believe I still need a little more research on the subject, but I have seen some interesting uses of the curtain. One neat little building is the Chinese Central Television Headquarters which uses curtain walls in a unique way. I am still researching this curtain wall and others structures that use them in order to get the full grasp of the subject. More to come....
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That CCTV building is sick. Did you know the black bars on the skin are structural and strategically placed where they are needed most, gives it a cool look too. Im running a little curtain wall system on my studio project right now. Definitely not sure the best way to go about it but its fun trying to figure it out. To bad my wrist are cramping up from cutting models.
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