A curtain wall system is an outer covering of a building in which the outer walls are non-structural, but merely keep the weather out and the occupants in.

2. Curtain wall
A curtain wall system is an outer
covering of a building in which
the outer walls are non-structural,
but merely keep the weather out
and the occupants in.
Curtain wall
system
Stick
system
Unitized
system

3. Stick system
Stick Curtain Walling (SCW) may be defined as
non-load
bearing walls, usually suspended in front of
structural
steel or concrete framing. The deadweight of the
SCW with
environmental forces acting upon them is
transferred back
to the main structure through the SCW fixing
points.

4. Stick curtain wall
Advantages Disadvantages
•Suited for angular and
complex facades.
•Quicker production
processes in the factory.
•Can be transported to site
in shorter lead times than
unitised facades.
•Slow process of
assembly on site.
• Trained and skilled
field operatives must
be used.
•Glazing progress can
be slow as all glass
units must be installed
from the outside of the
building

5. Unitized system
•Unitised construction is the façade industry’s reference to
“off-site” construction.
•UCW consists of manufactured and pre-glazed storey high
units or panels normally constructed from aluminium profiles
or steel framework.

6. Bearing
element
Infilling
panels
open
elements
Fastening
elements

7. Bearing elements
mullion
Main pieces are Mullions,
which are fastened to the
building structure by anchor
pieces
transom
Transom elements spans
between two mullions, and
are completes the mesh ,
where the glazing panels
are fixed

8. Infilling panels
Glazing panels Spandrel panels
•Glazing panels are designed
for use as a replacement or
complement to glass in windows,
storefront, modesty screens,
railing inserts, etc.
•Spandrel panels are used
in place of glazing units in
curtain wall systems where it
is necessary to hide the
edges of floor slabs, ceiling
details, insulation, and other
building elements that would
ruin the aesthetic of the
curtain wall if they were
Visible.

9. Opening element
window
louvers

10. Fastening elements
Anchors and
connecting pieces

11. Famous buildings with curtain wall
Hancock Place ·
Boston,
Massachusetts
university art
centre,
louis kahn

12. •Chintan Thakker
•Nikita Parab
•Kajal Singh
•Alefiya B
•Shivangi dogra
•Vipul kadu
•Chinmay panvelkar
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