Curtain Wall At Floor

The wind and gravity loads of the curtain wall are transferred to the building structure typically at the floor.

Curtain wall at floor.

Curtain walls are self supporting and give a building s exterior the look of top to bottom glass. The framing is attached to the building structure and does not carry the floor or roof loads of the building. A curtain wall is defined as thin usually aluminum framed wall containing in fills of glass metal panels or thin stone. Geometry methods create curtain wall in the 3d window curtain wall input plane in 3d window extrude curtain wall from a slanted input plane positioning curtain wall in section.

When glass is used as the curtain wall an advantage is that natural light can penetrate deeper within the building. Curtain wall and edge of slab fire barrier systems for single spandrel zero spandrel and steel back pan configurations hilti s vast library of firestop solutions ranging from traditional spandrel designs 100 vision glass or eifs are unrivaled in the industry. Our window wall system is designed to allow factory glazed window and door units to be installed between the floor slabs of multiple story buildings giving the appearance of curtain wall. Create curtain wall on the floor plan draw curtain wall boundary in the section window create a curved curtain wall.

Since the curtain wall is non structural it can be made of lightweight materials thereby reducing construction costs.