Essay: Translucent and Transparent – Metal Facades

© Marcus Ebener
© Marcus Ebener
© Bas Princen
© Bas Princen
© Bas Princen
© Bas Princen
© H.G. Esch
© H.G. Esch
© Aldo Amoretti
© Aldo Amoretti
© Zooey Braun
© Zooey Braun
© Roland Halbe
© Roland Halbe
© Stefan Tuchila
© Stefan Tuchila
From mesh fabric to perforated sheet or cladding profiles: metal facades can be rigid, durable and safe as well as sensual, fragile and airy.

These current projects demonstrate a wide variety of construction tasks and design ­solutions that use metal cladding in both classical and unconventional ways.