Category: Ventilated Façade

Colored translucent facades represent one of the most compelling and adaptable concepts in contemporary architecture. Individually, these three words demonstrate distinct aspects of Danpal’s versatile command of research, design, and manufacturing. Color is one of the most dramatic ways in which an architect embellishes the design that takes form. Translucence exhibits the way that natural light from outside can become an internal feature of a home, office, shopping center, restaurant, or any building which embraces daylighting architecture. The façade itself is the face that the building shows to the world. In this article, we’ll explore the way in which colored translucent facades incorporate the beauty of natural light with the architectural feature which turns sunlight into a dazzling building component.

Color: How Colored Translucent Facades Create An Impression

Color needs no definition. Yet, as familiar as we are with the hues of our existence, we may fail to give color its due. We instinctively respond to the energetic mood inspired by the color red, but would we find red walls an inviting atmosphere in a hospital waiting room? We recognize that blue is a color that soothes, but if the goal is to create an ambiance of stirring vitality, we might choose another color. Even though we each have our own favorite colors, we often share similar responses when we see them.

Dynamic facades put color in the driver’s seat of architecture. Imagine if all the buildings in a neighborhood or a commercial complex were the same color. Even if the structures had different designs, they would lack the distinguishing identifying mark that sets one apart from the other. Colored translucent facades transform a building’s external appearance, making the most of its uniqueness.

Translucent: How Colored Translucent Facades Incorporate Light Into A Building’s Appearance

With more than half a century of experience behind us, Danpal has become known as a pioneer in manufacturing and design. This is especially true in the way we’ve blazed a trail with our daylighting architecture. Cutting-edge research and technological advances make it possible for architects to add natural light—not too much, not too little—into the interior spaces of buildings where we work and live. Externally, light shimmers and moves as a kinetic façade captivates the eye. Internally, we find that including light makes us feel better, giving us an enhanced feeling of well-being, and makes us more productive. All this, thanks to colored translucent facades.

Facades: The Architectural Feature That Adds So Much To A Building

While it’s true that colored translucent facades do not play a structure-supporting role in the construction of a building, that’s not really the point. A Danpal façade made of polycarbonate can provide protection from the elements. Polycarbonate is a remarkably strong and durable building material. It’s strong enough to stop a bullet, so you know that it’s able to defend a building from the damage that can come when weather unleashes rain, hail, wind, snow, and sunlight upon a structure. Polycarbonate is even able to shield a building’s occupants from the harmful effects of UV rays while they’re inside. Polycarbonate is the powerful material which gives a dynamic façade its superior performance capabilities. Impact resistance, maximum thermal conduction, energy efficiency… a colored translucent façade is more than just a building’s pretty face; with polycarbonate as a component, there are measurable benefits as well.

Now that you know how colored translucent facades can make the difference in a building’s image and performance, you can understand why Danpal products and systems are so highly regarded among architects and their clients. Choose the company that designs and manufactures with customer satisfaction in mind. Choose Danpal!

A colored façade demonstrates the way that the functional aspects of architecture blend with the esthetic nuances that turn a building, whether it’s a magnificent structure or a simple residence, into wholeness. In order for the esthetics to be fully displayed, the architecture must exhibit structural integrity. Architectural facades have a specific function that’s much more than the strength and durability of polycarbonate, more than energy efficiency or ease of installation. The building where you work may be no more than the place where you go each day so that you can afford a place to live. But what if both structures, your workplace and your home, fulfill a deeper need within you? What if what you want from the physical edifices where you live can exemplify your commitment to sustainability, your need to live and work in a safe environment, and that intangible, internal desire for beauty? Such aspirations are no longer seen as irrelevant, and Danpal, with a business presence on five continents, has absorbed the diversity of those varying climates and cultures. We develop systems and manufacture products which meet the expectations of the architects and their clients. The architectural facades by Danpal are just one of the ways in which our company offers complete satisfaction.

The Role of a Colored Façade in Architecture

Visual senses are stimulated by the way that color is integrated within architectural facades. Danpal has created a palette of colors, finishes, and textures to enhance the foundation of construction. The right blend of colors can conjure a sense of vitality that allows a building to come alive within the confines of its setting. When colors move from cooler tones to warmer ones, architectural facades create a sense of movement. The power of the imagination is most completely on display when the physical dimensions of a building are in harmony with the shades of the colored façade. The perception of beauty may be limited to the eye of the beholder, but a well-designed building that employs color and design is a fit setting for the work that goes on within its walls..

Colored Facades and Energy Efficiency

No client would be satisfied with an architectural design that only delivered on esthetics. Today’s consumers expect the buildings in which we work and live to meet the needs of the environment and the expectations of all who live and work within that structure. Danpal, working with the creed of Global Vision, Local Focus, understands that architectural facades, as much as skylights, roofing systems, and any other feature of construction, fulfill a purpose.

There once was a time when architects depended upon glass to convey the esthetic beauty that they wanted their designs to nurture. But glass fails the energy efficiency test. Polycarbonate, on the other hand, is strong enough to withstand the punishing effects of wind, snow, rain and even sunlight. At the same time, a color façade made of polycarbonate offers superior insulating capabilities which glass lacks.

Danpal, a trailblazer in the construction industry, has a research and development team that can unite sound manufacturing practices with contemporary environmental standards. Sustainability is a concept which increasingly defines the lifestyles of consumers who are aware that in order to support the needs of our fragile planet, we must affirm our commitment to these principles.

Architectural Facades, Construction, and Comfort

Danpal’s dedication to customer satisfaction is based upon our commitment to excellence. Regulations and standards and building codes must be met. Performance must conform to the needs of the building. Attention to environmental needs is a priority. But it doesn’t end there. How do you, the customer, feel about the buildings where you spend the bulk of your day, working and living? Are you comfortable within the walls of those structures? Does your home, office, workplace enhance your productivity and sense of wellbeing?

That’s the Danpal goal: a better building environment for a happier you!

When a building design and a colored façade join forces, the end result is brilliant and beguiling architecture. A building’s façade system doesn’t merely enhance the performance of a structure. Who can resist the allure of bold reds, cool blues, brilliant yellows? Whether it’s located in a residential or commercial area, a building that boasts a colored façade sheeting design is going to attract positive attention. No one wants to work or live in a building whose dull colors are proof that it has seen better days and is now well past its prime. Color gives a building life.

Why does color have such a powerful effect? Perhaps it’s because color is not only visual. Color communicates the language of a building. When color is combined with texture, finish, light, and shadow, it takes on versatility, conveying a message that may be subtle or dramatic, lively or calming, traditional or contemporary. That message is an architectural marketing tool for the structure. What is your color façade saying to the world?

Identifying The Threats To Colored Facades

Of course, there are considerations that need to be evaluated during the process of choosing the colored façade that’s right for your structure, particularly how to reduce the effects of fading that UV rays can cause, making once-brilliant tones turn drab and dull.

The sun that we love can also be the UV threat that buildings hate. Colors make a creative statement that gives a building its own personality. Intense colors like reds and blues are striking to the eye. However, colors are vulnerable to the elements. Certainly wind, rain, and cold weather are harsh on a structure, but so is sunlight. A colored façade design, those ventilated layers of plastic, polycarbonate, glass, wood, and metal that create a three-dimensional impression, also is vulnerable to the effects of the elements. In fact, UV rays can not only cause colors to fade, but also have the ability to inflict fundamental deterioration to the sheeting material itself.

We can’t just blame the weather for the fading that can take place over time. Humans have to accept some of the blame. The pollution that causes harm to our respiratory systems and threatens peril to the environment is also an enemy to the inanimate structures in which we live and work and play. Pollution robs colored facades of their dynamic appearance over time. The grime that coats a surface leads to dullness until a once-brilliant red erodes into a drab pink. When that happens, a building that was once an eye-catching asset to a community begins to look tired and worn, diminishing the appearance of the entire neighborhood.

The colors that make the boldest statement—red, blue, yellow—are also those that are the most likely to fade from the effects of UV rays. Unfortunately, UV radiation is brutal on pigmentation.

Danpal R&D Supports Long Life For Colored Facades

It’s significant that Danpal, the company that has blazed an innovative path in the construction industry for over half a century, maintains a presence on five continents. Experiencing weather on five continents teaches engineers and designers a lot about how to match materials to weather zones. In order to assist a translucent façade in the maintaining of its color brilliance, Danpal products are manufactured to meet the specific demands of their different environmental factors. Products may be adapted for hot or cool climates in dry or wet regions. In order to choose materials that will give the colors of a façade system a longer life, choose Danpal products. We know our colors and we know how to make them last!