Facade Design
The design and construction of building exteriors, including materials, systems, and aesthetic strategies.
Facade design encompasses the outer surfaces of buildings and how they function as both protective barriers and visual expressions. Designers work with materials, structural systems, and environmental performance to create exteriors that respond to climate, context, and programmatic needs.
The community explores facade approaches ranging from double-skin systems and material innovation to color and pattern strategies. Work includes retail storefronts, public pavilions, cultural institutions, and residential extensions that demonstrate how exterior design shapes spatial experience and urban presence.
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Some Thoughts Clamps Felt and Metal Together to Build a Modular Eyewear Store in Wuhan
A 98 m² MOLSION eyewear shop in Wuhan builds its displays from stacked red and grey felt modules held by custom triangular metal fasteners.
Eller + Eller Wraps a Düsseldorf Office Campus for WPP in Germany's Largest Closed-Cavity Facade
At the gateway to Düsseldorf's Medienhafen, MIZAL stacks 2,500 workplaces behind a sealed glass skin, deep atria and stepped roof gardens.
Studio Font Builds a Hurricane-Ready Concrete House in Puerto Escondido from Five Planes and a Floating Pergola
On Oaxaca's Macahuite Beach, a 300 m² house of bare concrete walls and a 14-metre pergola frames the dune, the Pacific and the mountains behind it.
TEKI Design Wraps a Harajuku Blue Bottle Café in Curved Steel and Opens a Slice of Sky Between Buildings
In Shibuya's Harajuku, an 82 m² Blue Bottle café pairs a sweeping stainless steel wall with rammed earth, mirrored ceilings and a new passage.
