Print Email Facebook Twitter Lightweight bonded acrylic facing at the Vitra VSL Factory Title Lightweight bonded acrylic facing at the Vitra VSL Factory Author Michel, M.T. Techen, H. Faculty Architecture and The Built Environment Department Architectural Engineering +Technology Date 2013-12-23 Abstract Acrylic glass is omnipresent in the industrialised world; but as a building material most architects, facade planners and engineers are still unfamiliar with this material. In most cases it is applied as a substitute for glass which leads to inappropriate joints and fixtures. During the years of the path toward the digital era, the authors were in the fortunate position to be involved in several unconventional glass and acrylic glass projects. On the basis of their most recent project, the facade of the Vitra VSL Factory by SANAA Architekten, they describe the development of a facade for which they chose acrylic glass not as a substitute for glass but rather as a conscious material choice. Since the entire facade is it was possible to apply the manufacturing technology of deep-drawing, allowing for very thin wall thicknesses. Subject facade designstructural analysisbuilding envelopescladdingacrylics To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:9fc997a5-1c8a-448e-8b77-7f77006eb7df DOI https://doi.org/10.3233/FDE-130001 Publisher IOS Press ISSN 2213-302X Source Journal of Facade Design and Engineering, 1 (1-2), 2013 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights © 2013 IOS Press and the authorsCreative Commons BY NC Files PDF Michel_2013.pdf 1.78 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:9fc997a5-1c8a-448e-8b77-7f77006eb7df/datastream/OBJ/view