SCHUECO PARAMETRIC SYSTEM DELIVERS
AFFORDABLE DESIGN FREEDOM
Schueco takes design to new heights
with a system that makes the exciting
possibilities of parametric façades an
affordable commercial proposition.
While the design opportunities
presented by parametric 3D façades have
long been seen as excitingly radical, the
high cost of the one-off special solutions
required to realise them has prevented
their breaking out into the architectural
mainstream. Schueco’s parametric
offering has changed all that.
Using Schueco’s Parametric system,
3D façades can, for the first time, be
designed as straightforward system
solutions whose cost can be calculated
with the certainty of a series product.
Suddenly all the possibilities inherent
in the parametric concept become
not impossibly expensive dreams, but
eminently achievable goals.
Like all Schueco systems, the Parametric
façade is highly insulated with U f values
up to 0.5 W/m2K; the surface elements
are transparent or opaque and sunlight
and shading, guided views and daylight
optimisation can be used as active
design factors.
A central element of the Schueco
Parametric solution is the continuous,
closed digital process chain that operates
in all phases of design, planning and
fabrication, with the proven Schueco
modular system forming the basis for
individual designs of façade modules.
The result is that interface problems
become a thing of the past and a
uniform, consistent data model for
everyone involved in the process is
guaranteed.
Schueco planning tools mean that
geometrically complex shapes are
progressively simplified during planning;
establishing rules and connections
between individual design elements
enables changes to be made more
swiftly. This is important because a
design that includes, for instance,
optimised daylight conditions, sound
reduction and protection against
unwanted sunlight can quickly become
complex as the number of individual
façade elements increase.
The impressive power of Schueco’s
parametric planning tools is evidenced
by the extraordinary amount of detailing
time they can save: instead of the 24
hours per unit that is currently the
norm, this can be reduced to a scarcely
believable 8 minutes!
With the Parametric system, Schueco has
made customer-specific, individualised
mass production for free-form façades an
affordable reality.
For further information on the Schueco
Parametric façade system, please email
[email protected] or visit www.
schueco.co.uk