curtain wall and cladding details

1. CURTAIN WALL AND WALL CLADDING
TOORE AGBAR TOWER, BARCELONA
•Torre Agbar is a thirty-one-storey,
bullet-shaped tower which emplays,
a reinforced-concerte bearing-wall
structure pierced with 4,500
(A) LAMINATEDGLASS
LOUVERS
(B)AN0DIZED EXTRUDED-
ALUMINUM RAIL
(C) ALUMINUM WINDOW WITH
LOW-E COATED INSULATION
GLASS(D) PAINTED CORRUGATED
ALUMINUM SHEET
(E) MINERAL WOOLstructure pierced with 4,500
individual windows openings.
•HEIGHT-142M
•BUILT AREA-50,500 SQ.M
•STEEL KG-250,000 KG
•GLASS SHEETS-59,619
•OPENINGS-4,349
•WINDOWS-4,500 •CURTAIN WALL:- custom system of clear and
ALUMINUM RAIL(E) MINERAL WOOL
INSULATION OVER
REINFORCED-CONCRETE
WALL
(F) GALVANIZED- STEEL
MAINTENANCE CATWALK
(G) RAISED FLOOR
(H) CONCRETE SLAB ON
METAL DECK AND STEEL
BEAM
(I) SUSPENDED CEILING
•WINDOWS-4,500
•COLOURS DIFF-40
•CURTAIN WALL:- custom system of clear and
translucent glass louvers suspended on extruded
Aluminium framing members, in front of a load-
bearing reinforced- concrete wall with punched
windows.
PLAN
SKETCH OF THE CURTAIN WALL
VERTICAL SECTION
GALVANIZED- STEEL MAINTENANCE CATWALK
•The reinforced-concrete structure, crowned by a glass and
•There are 4,400 windows and 56,619 transparent and translucent glass
plates.
•The louvres are tilted at different angles calculated to deflect the direct
sun light.
•4,500 yellow, blue, pink and red lights, placed over the
facade, illuminate the tower at night.
PLAN
GIANI ZAIL SINGH SCHOOL OF
ARCHITECTURE AND PLANNING
(MRSPTU) BATHINDA
SUBMITTED BY:-
RAJIT KUMAR
170040020
B.ARCH, SEM -VII
TOPIC :-
CURTAIN WALL AND
WALL CLADDING
SUBJECT NAME:-
BUILDING CONSTRUCTION
-VII
SUBMITTED TO :-
AR. MITAKSHI SHARMA
AR. JASLEEN KAUR
AR.MANVEER SINGH
•The reinforced-concrete structure, crowned by a glass and
steel dome, has a multi-colored facade of aluminum panels,
behind glass louvers, in 25 different colors.STEEL DOME
LAMINATED GLASS
LOUVERS, DETAIL
ALUMINUM WINDOW WITH LOW-
E COATED INSULATION GLASS
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