Simplifying selection: Choosing between standard and bespoke facade solutions

Choices, choices. Every architecture and design project is a sequence of critical decisions – especially when it comes to facade cladding.

Choosing the right facade system

Architects strive to do the best job possible and build something special. Any project that gives an opportunity for creative, unique design is a welcome one – but there remains the need to balance vision and reality, ideas and feasibility. It’s here that the decision dilemma comes into play: knowing the options for your facade cladding solutions is one thing, but finding the right components to build the right system for your specific requirements is another. And this is where we can help…

Bringing balance to facade system selection

Facade solutions like Corium and SVK unlock design versatility while making installation quicker and easier, as well as offering wealth of options in terms of look and feel, colour and style, performance and dimensions. This is why many specifiers engage us early to devise bespoke solutions alongside them. But, particularly for large-scale commercial and multi-use developments, it always helps to know the options in advance – the ‘menu’ of components, as it were. To make specifying facade solutions simpler, we’ve created just such a menu.

A range of standard facade solutions for mainstream projects

A quick glance at our facade systems page gives you a good overview of what’s on offer. Drilling down into these in our facades brochure gives you an idea of our full range of BBA-certified Corium, their performance credentials, including being A-rated for fire safety, and – crucially – where they’re best suited as part of a full system specification.

In terms of Corium cladding systems, our standard solutions encompass a choice of sizes, colours and textures, including premade corners, enabling architects to go beyond the traditional dimensions of brickwork by creating custom designs using readily available components.

With standard 50mm and 65mm height tiles, as well as larger-format 140mm and 215mm options, with special tiles including air brick style and soffit return tiles, and with different options for projecting tiles, we give you the versatility to quickly mix-and-match solutions to fit any requirement. Plus, with smooth, sanded, glossed – even hand-formed – finishes in a range of colours, it’s easier to create a premium, bespoke facade using ready-made solutions.

Bespoke facade design with architectural expertise

What if you know what’s on the menu, but nothing’s quite hitting the mark for your building design? It might be time to go bespoke – and we’re here to help.

At Wienerberger Facades, we’re here to help you break free of traditional design conventions, enabling you to select a custom set of components, to realise new and unique architectural ambitions. From trendsetting colour combinations to non-standard dimensions in the building envelope, we’ll work with you to make it happen – and we’ll make it as simple and straightforward as our standard menu.

The solution to suit the scenario

So, what can be achieved with these facade solutions – whether a standard collection or a more bespoke selection? There’s a host of projects on show in our facades gallery, but we can draw out examples like Cambridge Central Mosque – a space that needed to evoke a subtle mood of warmth and serenity in a modern style; something that was achieved through a respectful design process that applied bespoke Corium facade design to great effect.

Focusing less on using Corium as a centrepiece, and more as a canvas, Chelmsford’s City Park West is a striking residential apartment complex that combines standard Corium brick cladding tiles with decidedly non-standard results – a building that stands out as a landmark of inspiring facade design.

Your choice of facade solutions

Whether it’s a quick turnaround for a standard specification, or you’d like to discuss a more bespoke project, it’s easy to get started. Our team are here to guide you at every step, from technical input and certification advice, to selecting the right components, getting the specification right, all the way through to ordering. It’s all with a view to saving time – including making it quicker and easier to order samples.  

So, what’ll it be? Explore the full range of Corium Solutions, or get in touch right now using the form below.

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