Kamnita obloga v polovici časa Obložena s kamnom

After decades quarrying, fabricating and supplying stone facades, Hugo Vega, Vice President of Sales at Polycor, noticed that the architects he was calling on were lacking a thin stone veneer that was light enough and strong enough for cladding large-scale architectural projects. After some R&D within the company, Polycor went on to release its 1 cm reinforced slabs and Vega returned to his architects in triumph. Only their response was, “That’s great, but we need a way to hang it.”

Pisani mozaiki iz naravnega kvadratnega kamna iz marmorja

“The 1 cm product was a great innovation, but there was no way to apply it quickly and easily on large-scale projects,” Vega said.

Tako se je ekipa Polycor vrnila v razvoj.

Medtem je v svetu A&D začel prihajati še en odziv. Kot nekoliko presenečenje za Vego je prodaja plošč debeline 1 cm močno zaživela na stanovanjskem trgu, kjer so oblikovalci in njihove stranke izkoristili priložnost, da v prhe vključijo značilne stene, okrasne plošče in brezšivne navpične kamine. (Te modele si lahko ogledate v tej knjigi ogledov.) Pri tretjini teže običajnega 3-centimetrskega materiala, s katerim so imeli opravka, si proizvajalci niso več lomili hrbtenice, da bi čez pult dvignili polno ploščo, da bi namestili hrbtno ploščo. Z 10-kratno upogibno trdnostjo (zahvaljujoč polikarbonatni kompozitni podlagi) ni bilo več skrbi, da bi navpično usmerjene plošče na kaminu počile pri namestitvi.

Stanovanjski trg je bil na krovu za tanek kamen.

Primer zadnje plošče, izdelane iz neprekinjene ultratanke plošče White Cherokee ameriški marmor.

That was great news, but Vega’s customers are typically working on commercial, not residential, specifications. So he continued to mull over this problem of adhering thin stone cladding to the exteriors of architectural projects. From time to time he would bump into the team from eclad at job sites where thicker panels of Polycor marble and granite were being installed with existing eclad systems, structural supports laid over existing facades in a modular fashion. A world leader in stone cladding systems, eclad has been creating and refining cladding systems since the 1990s. They too were seeing the same need in the market as the Polycor team – a fast and efficient way to clad with ultra-thin slabs. And so together the companies decided it was time to team up to bring a comprehensive thin stone cladding system to market.

Razvili so brezhiben sistem, ki prihrani čas, delo in denar: Eklad 1.

Ultra tanek Ameriški črni granit zdi se, da lebdi, podpira pa ga nevidna struktura Eclad 1.

Nova zasnova temelji na aluminijastem rešetkastem sistemu v kombinaciji s spodrezanimi sidri, pritrjenimi na zadnjo stran 1 cm plošč, tako da ostanejo prikriti pri uporabi tako tankega kamna. Plošče so na voljo do velikosti 9 krat 5 čevljev in v povprečju tehtajo le šest funtov na kvadratni čevelj, zaradi česar je postopek namestitve lažji.

VEČ O KAMNITIH FASADNIH SISTEMIH

Sidra ostanejo skrita za neovirano površino.

Montaža dvakrat hitrejša

Celoten sistem zagotavlja vnaprej izvrtane lahke kamnite plošče preko zaščitne strukture obloge, ki olajša namestitev nekoč težkih kamnitih plošč. Tradicionalni sistemi oblog se opirajo na debelejši kamen v kombinaciji z okornimi objemkami, trakovi in ​​sponkami. Z Eclad 1 monterji preprosto potisnejo plošče na svoje mesto in zavijejo vijake v predhodno izvrtane luknje.

Primer makete majhnega sistema Eclad 1.

“It’s basically a different way of installing the stone,” Vega said. “With traditional cladding systems, the anchors have to be installed one-by-one. The process is more labor intensive. On average, it’s twice as fast installing panels using the Eclad grid system.”