Facade Tectonics SKINS

Why SKINS?

Here’s the thing about the building SKIN: It is utterly unique in the built environment in separating the interior and exterior environments, balancing attributes of both appearance and performance in the process. It’s the gateway to resilience and sustainability goals in buildings and urban habitats. It’s the great integrator; the lynchpin to holistic building systems integration. It’s the linkage to all things. It’s the expressive soul of a building, inside and out. We spend 90% of our time indoors (with the pandemic it’s probably closer to 99% for many of us), with the interior environment shaped largely by the facade system. So, when it comes to the building facade, there is much to talk about; the topics are broad and the conversation cuts swaths through multiple silos of markets and society. In this small-world age of interconnectedness, where degrees of separation are collapsing and the recognition that “we are all in this together” surges, there is, after all, nothing much that doesn’t connect in some fashion to the building skin. Read the rest from Mic >