For use on facades, metal meshes are produced with special types of weaving, which have the necessary stability and can withstand environmental influences.
Thanks to the use of a grid, even the most ordinary, ordinary and boring facade can acquire a unique image. Depending on the lighting and the position of the observer, the material appears as a translucent curtain or as a dense, opaque surface.
Modern, solid-glazed buildings require effective protection from intense sunlight. Woven nets can filter the sun's rays and thereby regulate the insolation and heating of the facade.
JFAK has designed a unique mesh façade to bring the dull five-story LAPD motor vehicle building to life with its parking lot and to make its interior invisible from the street. a stainless steel screen that stretches across the entire width of the 300-meter structure. The Haver & Boecker stainless steel mesh is stretched over multifaceted structures, creating an overhead relief volume with a total area of 1300m².
This screen is decorated with a pattern of leaves in two shades of green, which additionally enlivens the facade and at the same time does not violate the transparency of the mesh. By the way, this is a good way to "green up" industrial zones and other places where planting living trees is impossible - it pleases the eye and creates a shadow on a hot day. And at night, the illuminated network scatters it beautifully.
In order to create a curved shape, the EGLA-Mono 4832 mesh was divided into vertical and horizontal stretched elements. All are equipped with standard mounting systems.
Another option for attaching the mesh is to loosely drape the building in a project called "Ball Gown" (in The Hague).
In the factory, the structure was built entirely from stainless steel mesh by Javier and Boecker MONO Doca-1771 and processed to obtain a golden color, and then on the construction site adapted to the shape desired by the architects from Archipelontwerpers.
The projected building is located in the historical part of the city, on the backyard of the royal residence, where a diverse collection of various architectural styles and typologies has gathered. A golden veil thrown over the glass volume reconciles contemporary stylistics with the historical context.
Finally, metal wire meshes can be part of media facades when LEDs are integrated into the mesh structure. A building made of monolithic concrete and glass with a media facade - Hypercube - was built in Skolkovo according to the project of Boris Bernasconi. Its façade, covered with 3200 m² of stainless steel mesh, has a 415 m² IMAGIC-Weave system that turns the building into a multimedia screen.
The project used a new type of wire fabric developed specifically for this project - EGLA-MONO 4961st. The media facade of the Hypercube is divided into two independent parts: the main screen with a resolution of 322x186 pixels (234 m) on the northern facade and the text scrolling area (23 pixels high along the entire perimeter of the building). The entire system is designed for Russia's extremely low winter temperatures in winter.
Facades made of stainless steel mesh have their undeniable advantages: the mesh is easy to clean, does not require maintenance, is non-combustible and creates an expressive image of the building. The mesh fabric allows up to 73% of daylight to pass through.
