Modern Glass Curtain Wall Designs in 2021

Today, curtain walls are not only widely used in the exterior walls of various buildings, but also in the interior walls of buildings with various functions, including communication rooms, TV studios, airports, large stations, stadiums, museums, cultural centers, hotels, shopping malls, and etc.

Frameless Glass Curtain Wall
Frameless glass curtain wall becomes very popular in a variety of large commercial buildings due to its full transparency and full view. It uses the transparency of glass to pursue the circulation and integration of the space inside and outside the building so that people inside the buildings can see everything outside through the glass glazing. In that regard, frameless glass curtain wall makes it possible for such a structural system to change from a pure supporting role to its visibility, thus showing the artistic, layered and three-dimensional sense of architectural decoration. Furthermore, its effect on enriching the architectural modeling and facade effect stand out from other traditional building systems. Moreover, it is the embodiment of modern technology in architectural decoration.

Bottom Stand Glass Curtain Wall
For bottom stand glass curtain wall, the glass is fixed in the top and bottom glass slot. And the glass dead load is sustained by the bottom slot. The surface glass can be four sides or two opposite sides supporting. When supported by the vertical two sides and the glass cannot meet the intensity or rigidity requirements, the vertical glass fin is needed. when the height of surface glass exceeds scope of the relevant standards and specification, we have to change the bottom sitting style to top hang style.

Pointed Supported Curtain Wall
Each grid glass is fixed by point-connected steel parts, which will use spherical hinge bolts (freely rotatable), and the spherical hinge bolts in applications. The force supporting structure system supporting glass can be glass ribs, steel structures, or stainless steel pull bar, cables or hybrid structures. Therefore, the point-connected full curtain wall can be divided into glass rib point-supported glass curtain wall, steel rod point-supported glass curtain wall, steel cable point fixed glass curtain wall, and mixed structure glass curtain wall.

Double Skin Curtain Wall
Double-skin curtain walls are also called dynamic ventilating, heat channel or breathing facade. Based on the optimized design and scientific configuration of system, double-skin facade can improve the thermal performances of external envelope, interior ventilation, acoustic insulation, and interior lighting control. The thermal conductivity and shading characteristics of the double-skin curtain wall can significantly reduce energy consumption inside the buildings. By passively using light energy, the heat loss through the curtain wall facade system in winter can be reduced by 30%, and the heat dissipation at night in summer can reduce the use of air conditioners, thereby reducing energy loss. If the night heat dissipation and louvers are used correctly, the indoor temperature can also be kept lower than the outdoor.