Glazed Façades

Architectures of Light: Emotions on Display

The Union Between Glass and Aluminum

Facades characterize the building: the modern envelope protects the individual while offering visual contact with the world, energy efficiency, security, and aesthetics.

Glass facades provide transparency, brightness, and connection with the external environment, contributing to a modern and sustainable design. They improve energy efficiency, thermal and luminous comfort, ensuring architectural versatility and a significant visual impact, increasing real estate value.

Facades are the central element in the design and architectural definition of building envelopes, thanks to the flexibility of their systems. Aesthetically perfect facades, all-glass buildings, and synergistic high-tech facades, to create the most innovative architectural solutions, guaranteed by the security of the system technique. The advantages in short:

Complete systems of aluminum and steel profiles
All types of facades, including double facades
Almost all geometries of coverings with large grid spans for maximum light incidence
Openable with any type of opening
Fixed and movable sun shading systems
Innovative facade management technique
Modern fire and smoke protection systems
Possibility to create structures for facades compliant with all resistance classes

The complete Schüco system program allows for the creation of aluminum facades through various architectural concepts. While the options achievable with the standard elements of the various systems leave plenty of creative space for architects and designers, special solutions, always based on tested systems, are naturally possible. Aluminum Energy-efficient building projects will determine the future of construction. The best harmonized solutions that perfectly meet the architectural and technological needs of facades and transparent roofs will play a central role. The most unique facades have become an emblem and symbol of urban life. They showcase architectural creativity, express technical capability, and give buildings a distinctive, unmistakable character. Comfort and design for construction, transparent elements generate energy while embodying safety and automation. There’s no doubt: the concept of high-energy-efficiency building envelopes represents the future.

Comfort and design for construction, transparent elements generate energy while embodying safety and automation.

Facades with transoms and mullions - Schuco FWS 50 - FWS 60

System

With Schüco FWS 50 and FWS 60 thermal insulation mullion and transom facade systems, it is possible to create architecturally and artistically elegant vertical facades and roofing; particularly segmented both outward and inward, with significant grid widths and installation heights. Roof shapes range from single-pitched roofs to large-span, full-arch roofs for large structures, such as shopping centers or administrative buildings. Additionally, the high thermal insulation variants .HI ensure compliance with current energy-saving standards.

Advantages

- Integrated fall protection in the profile for full-height opening units and reduced heights of parapets ensure a minimalist and harmonious facade aesthetic. - Wide selection of soffit profiles and covers, including stainless steel, for a variety of design requirements. - Integration of various insert units from doors, windows, and Schüco sliding systems.

Technical Information

- Uf value of frame: FWS 50 ≥ 1.5 W/(m²·K) - FWS 60 ≥ 1.3 W/(m²·K) - Minimum visible section: 50 mm - 60 mm - Air permeability: AE - Acoustic reduction measurement RwP max: FWS 50 48 dB(A) - FWS 60 46 dB(A) - Rainwater impermeability: RE 1200 - Impact resistance: I5/E5 - Burglar resistance up to RC 3

Strutture riportate

System

An expressive architecture is also achieved through the differentiated selection of materials. The best example is represented by constructions to be supported on wooden and steel substructures Schüco, for vertical facades or roofing.

Facciate strutturali Schüco FWS 50 SG - FWS 60 SG

System

High thermal insulation mullion and transom curtain wall for a variety of solutions. A timeless aesthetic combined with maximum functionality – the Schüco FWS 50/60 SG (Structural Glazing) facade system with a sightline width of 50/60 mm allows the creation of large glass facades, including double glazing for excellent thermal insulation. The system can be designed with a flush aesthetic entirely in glass or with semi-structural glazing. Additional design freedom is provided by the complete range of covers: a horizontal or vertical cover on the facade can create interesting architectural variations. Compatibility with the Schüco AWS 114 window system ensures additional functionality and user comfort: insertion elements with manual or mechatronic operation, with outward opening or parallel opening projecting windows, can be integrated into the entirely glass facade with a homogeneous aesthetic, even for large format solutions.

Advantages

• The construction of facades with a flush aesthetic in full glass or with semi-structural glazing, accentuating the horizontal or vertical profile, offers considerable design freedom. • Uniform integration of all insertion elements of the Schüco AWS 114 window system. • Large format glazing ensures maximum transparency. • The use of double insulating glass ensures excellent thermal insulation. • Structural glass facade for double-glazed units with different glass thicknesses and high loads. • Extremely thin head joints can be sealed with silicone or pre-formed rubber gaskets (junction gap or flush).

Technical Information

• Frame Uf value FWS 50 SG ≥ 1.4 W/(m²·K) - FWS 60 SG ≥ 1.2 W/(m²·K) • Visible section FWS 50 SG: min. 50 mm - FWS 60 SG: min. 60 mm • Maximum glass/panel thickness: 44 mm • Surface finishes: powder coating, anodization, lacquer • Air permeability AE • Sound reduction measurement RwP FWS 50 SG max. 44 dB(A); FWS 60 SG max. 46 dB(A) • Rainwater impermeability RE 1200 • Impact resistance I5/E5 • Anti-burglary up to RC 2