Essay: Translucent and Transparent - Metal Facades

 - Roland Pawlitschko

From mesh fabric to perforated sheet or cladding profiles: metal facades can be rigid, durable and safe as well as sensual, fragile and airy. These current projects demonstrate a wide variety of construction tasks and design solutions that use metal cladding in both classical and unconventional ways.

Essay: Translucent and Transparent - Metal Facades
The facade of the Thünen Institute by Staab Architekten in the port of Bremer- haven is composed of two alternating types of anodised aluminium panels, perforated to varying degrees, so that they appear as two distinct colours. © Marcus Ebener