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большеHistory of wall claddings
Several years ago in Norway, farmers,
frustrated with the destruction of harvests through adverse weather conditions
of snow and rain penetrating the barns in which their products were stored looked
into constructing secondary exterior structures on walls. The assumption was
based on the idea that a double layer would prevent water or snow from
penetrating the internal wall as the outer wall would slow down pressure even
though it would be penetrated.
It was surprising to the farms that the
idea was effective as snow and water didn’t penetrate through the double walled
barns than they did with those with single walls. The barn walls were
constructed with timber allowed for the fee passage of air through the joints.
The residues of the penetrated moisture contents were stored between the walls
and the passing air dried them off leading to the idea of creating a back
ventilated cavity procedure was born.
Residues stored between cavities to the
ground level were the main focus here and the idea was centered on implementing
the process into multiple means. It is nearly impossible to keep water or moisture
from penetrating the outer layer of any structure over time and the Norwegian
farmers accepted this and with the ventilated cavity method found a way of dealing
with it before the get into the secondary layer.
Over time, this process has been greatly
improved upon and that can be seen with wall cladding in which rather than
setting up another wall entirely a less tedious means is employed, a selected material
is applied upon the wall rather with mechanical means.
Wall cladding method of application serves
is greatly beneficial as they are mechanically fixed and not bonded to walls
like paints or wall papers, thereby leaving the option for easy replacements whenever
necessary.
Wall claddings have been implemented into
constructions greatly in Europe as it’s been preferred as opposed to using a
single wall design with a secondary back up gutter system due to most single wall
structures using a permeable material such as concrete or bricks.
The ventilated cavity technique overtime
has lead European architects to design exterior walls with room for its
implementation and further more thus has led to this been developed into what
we now call the Rain screen principle.
Europe has been using this principle as its
primary method of construction for over 40years and thereby leading to
manufacturers using various materials as wall clads.
Terracotta is a prominent material due to
its naturalistic features. Terracotta cladding makes use of baked clay in
creating the perfect aesthetic rain screen. Terracotta cladding due to its
naturalistic qualities also gives room for little to no fire outbreak s serving
as a major plus against plastic and mostly other materials.
The essence of a true terracotta cladding
comprises of:
· A stud wall construction.
· Sheathings attached to the back
of the studs.
· Aluminum or other metal
sub-constructions serving as cladding supports attached to the back of the
studs.
· A cladding support designed to
create a back ventilated cavity between the exterior cladding surface and
interior of the cladding material.
· The exterior cladding attached
back to the cladding supports.
LOPO terracotta covers all the above
effectively when implementing any terracotta cladding. The advantage of using
LOPO Terra-cotta Panels as a rain screen is that LOPO terra-cotta panels are impervious
to water penetration, so the only moisture that will penetrate through the
outer skin will be that which passes through the open-joints.
LOPO terracotta has a production ability
comprising of;
1. The longest domestic roller kiln
comprising of 428 firing units;
2. An 80,000 square meters open stockyard
with a daily capable reserve of natural clay raw materials amounting to 300,000
tons.
4. An indoor product repository with
150,000 tons of storage capacity.
5. An automatic production line for
cutting, shaping and polishing clay material.
6. A storage system capable of reserving
12,000 tons of prepared clay.
7. Class A imported molding machines for
extruding vacuum.
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