Design Checklist
- The facades of the parking building incorporate creative approaches to cladding and screening.
Overview
At a functional level, cladding and rain screens provide protection from the weather while allowing airflow into a parking structure.
However, these cladding elements also present an opportunity to create dynamic and alluring architectural effects. Facades and cladding systems can reflect artistic expression, make cultural references, incorporate living walls and roofs and respond to the building’s neighbouring context.
As a starting point for considering the design of facades and to spark inspiration, the following section highlights some examples inventive cladding.