Common Architectural Applications
AMICO Architectural Metals are a wonderfully nascent that allows for a great deal of creative flexibility. Below are a few of the most common applications we see our architect partners deploying our materials.
1 Attached Sunshades
Architectural metals can reduce heat gain, increase the quality of natural lighting, and improve the occupant’s visual comfort from glare all while creating some gorgeous forms and visual interest to your façade. Many architects will base their design on 1 of 3 methods: Parallel to ground, parallel to façade, or angled fins.
2 Equipment & Rooftop Screens
Architectural metals can provide much utility to your equipment screens. While helping keep an excellent aesthetic, expanded mesh and perforated metals can dampen sound, allow ventilated air to be pulled in, and undesirable gasses to escape.
3 Ceilings
Expanded mesh and perforated metal can be great solutions for ceilings. Beyond the wonderful aesthetic perforated metals are typically acoustically transparent and will not create echoes. Likewise, they are waterproof, non-porous & non-absorbent, easy to clean, and stain resistant.
4 Adaptive Reuse Projects
Architectural metals like expanded mesh and perforated metal are excellent applications for adaptive reuse projects because they can greatly transform a façade without being overly invasive to the structure. Their inherent porous form factor allows them to sculptural skin that can cover an existing structure with great efficiency and impact.
5 Railing Infills
AMICO’s architectural metals have a great strength-to-weight ratio making them excellent for interior and exterior railing applications.
Perforated and expanded metal panels can be formed or framed to meet post and support that fits your unique design.
6 Exterior Architectural Facades
Expanded Mesh and perforated metal offer a great façade cladding surface for adding texture to your structure, catching the light, and creating surface change contrast.
These types of architectural metal products are excellent because of their flexibility. They can be formed and finished in many different ways allowing you to create unique designs to set your design apart.
7 Interior Screens
Screens are excellent at defining space and guiding foot traffic. Perforated mesh or expanded metal have options with varying levels of transparency to meet your design goals around light control.
8 Interior Wall Cladding and Accents
Expanded mesh and perforated metal are great for interior accents such as wall cladding and column wraps. Whether you need a medium to bring in color or add some texture to give a space a more rich feeling, AMICO’s various product options are great solutions.
9 Parking Garage Screen
AMICO Architectural Metals can add great value to your parking deck project:
- Improving aesthetics
- Providing windbreak
- Reducing headlight glare to the outside
- Allowing for code-required airflow
10 Pedestrian Sunshade
Sunshades can improve the outdoor experience, bring significant added value to a property, as well as help define the location of rest, walking, and gathering.
10 Landscape Design Features
Expanded mesh and perforated metal has excellent strong properties while also allow great transparency for visitors to see the landscape. It can be used for railing and the right products can also be us support walkways.
11 Metal Acoustic Panels
Alone, or paired with sound dampening backer, perforated metal plays an active or purely passive role in eliminating specific frequencies in sound–filtering systems.
This can be beneficial for auditoriums, places that require a large gathering like airports or schools, or enclosures for loud equipment like HVAC & compressors.
Here are a few benefits of perforated metal acoustic panels to consider:
- Perforated holes are easily customized to meet the detailed frequency needs of a given application.
- Many acoustic panels lack the durability needed for outdoor or high traffic areas. Perforated metal is easy to maintain and can act as a protective barrier to increase the lifespan of acoustic panels.
- Aluminum and stainless steel provide aesthetically attractive surfaces and can be painted and powder coated to man different colors.
- Perforated metal is easy to form, bend, and shape. This allows the architect to apply the panels in wide variety of forms to meet design needs.
- Aluminum is excellent for fire safety as it is noncombustible with a 660°C melting point
12 Signage and Retail Environments
Expanded mesh and perforated metal is also excellent for signage and branding applications.
When considering your design, AMICO’s materials are excellent for:
• Reflect accent lighting
• Provide contrasting textures to allow logos to stand out
• Building form and visual mass
• Supplying surface area to emphasize brand colors
13 Vertical Gardens
Perforated metal, expanded mesh, and bar grating all make for great vertical garden applications. While many designers start the plant growth at the bottom, the hanging garden approach allowing plants to creep down is especially attractive.
14 Residential
Expanded mesh and perforated metal are excellent for applications in residential spaces as well. A few areas for consideration include:
• Balcony Dividers
• Courtyard sunscreens
• Pergolas and car ports
• Railing
• Patio privacy screens
• Room dividers
• Door accents
• Facades
