Detailing Ventilated Façades

Delve deeper into façade detailing techniques, with a focus on advanced concepts and real-world case studies.

Façades shape how buildings look and how they perform. This course focuses on a key challenge in façade design: detailing the interface between ventilated façades and windows. Through a step-by-step approach, you’ll learn how to develop technical drawings, explore material options, and understand how different disciplines contribute to the detailing process.

Using real examples like the Gehry-Bauten in Düsseldorf, you’ll sketch, refine, and review façade details with input from experts in engineering, physics, and construction.

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What you will learn

Draw detailed ventilated façade systems with integrated windows
Understand how design decisions affect performance and collaboration
Adapt details for different materials and geometries
Apply façade design principles with confidence

Course topics

Understanding ventilated façades and their interface with windows
Sketching and defining façade geometries using real-world examples
Developing and refining technical details for different materials (metal, brick, plaster)
Addressing curved and free-form façade geometries
Reviewing details with experts in engineering, physics, and construction
Finalising drawings and exploring alternative cladding systems (e.g. GFRP, textiles, stone, green façades)

Teachers

The course is led by experts from TU Delft, TU Darmstadt and Eurac Research. In addition to virtual visits, the course offers a peek behind-the-scenes at how circular design principles are applied in manufacturing and architectural firms.

Marcel Bilow

Dr.-Ing., Building Technology, Delft University of Technology BSc, Architecture, University of Applied Science Detmold at Delft University of Technology

Ulrich Knaack

Prof. Dr. Ing. at Delft University of Technology

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In this course you will explore circularity principles in the context of façade design, with a focus on the innovative use of materials to make façades more sustainable and more easily recyclable.