Schueco offers simplified 3D façades with launch of Parametric system
21st April 2015

Schueco UK has unveiled its Parametric Façade System, said to offer architects unprecedented versatility in designing and costing 3D façades with the potential of 0.5 U-Value.

The company says the new system means that: “For the first time ever, geometrically complicated 3D façades can be designed as straightforward system solutions whose cost can be calculated with the certainty of a series product.

“Surface elements can be transparent or opaque. Sunlight and shading, guided views and daylight optimisation can all be employed as active design factors. The system can also accommodate BIPV panels for solar energy generation.”

The launch announcement continues: “Central to the Schueco Parametric solution is the continuous, closed digital process chain that operates in all phases of design, planning and fabrication. The result is that commonly encountered interface problems are eliminated and a uniform, consistent data model for every individual involved in the process is guaranteed.”

The company is backing the launch with a series of parametric planning tools including a library of ‘intelligent’ façade modules for CAD programs that can be freely combined and incorporated into a parametric façade during the design phase. These are said to allow complex shapes to be simplified with benefits including reducing detailing time from 24 hours to as little as eight minutes.

The statement concludes: “With the Parametric System, Schueco has made customer-specific, individualised mass production for free-form façades an affordable reality, combining in one package the economic benefits of industrial series production with clients’ desire for individual and exclusive products and solutions.”

The system has won Schueco an Honourable Mention in the Red Dot Awards: Product Design 2015.

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