Enhancing the Built Environment with Architectural Metal Fabric
Creating beautiful and functional facades, balustrades, and screening
Sponsored by GKD Metal Fabrics
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Architectural metal fabric is a dynamic exterior material than can be used to create beautiful and functional facades, balustrades, and screening for libraries, academic buildings, parking garages, stadiums, and other public and commercial buildings. This course will discuss exterior applications for metal fabric and its performance benefits including safety, security, solar management and sustainability. We will also explore coatings and graphics technologies that can be incorporated into metal fabrics to create a building and brand’s visual identity.
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As a leading provider of woven metal fabric for architectural solutions, GKD Metal Fabrics offers architects the ability to create dynamic, modern environments that address numerous building concerns. Drawing on more than 95 years of German engineering excellence and precise American manufacturing, GKD revolutionized the category of metal fabric applications. With thousands of interior and exterior installations constructed worldwide, architects and specifiers recognize GKD as the metal fabric authority.
Originally published in Architectural Record
Originally published in March 2021
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
- Examine how architectural metal fabrics for exterior applications provide solutions for outdoor design challenges.
- Learn the performance benefits of exterior metal fabrics including safety and security, solar management, and sustainability.
- Explore how to create visual identity and branding with metal fabrics, including etching, lighting, color, and transparent media facades.
- Identify ideal applications for the product and review case studies where the material was used.
