Dry hanging granite curtain wall began in the late 1960s and was introduced into China in the mid-1980s.

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The pixel volume at the lower part of the building is integrated with the texture, color and complex scale of the urban Hutong around the building.

This paper only introduces the design and construction difficulties of the special dry hanging stone curtain wall at the bottom of the building.

The stone used for dry hanging stone curtain wall is mainly natural granite.

Taking the famous landscape painting “Fuchun Mountain Residence” by Huang Gongwang of the Yuan Dynasty as the template, thousands of round hole pixels extracted by refining are embedded into the wall to create an abstract landscape outline.

The dry hanging stone curtain wall is located on the lower 1 ~ 4 floors of the building.

These various structural systems have been rejected after many demonstrations, and finally a unique curtain wall structural system has been selected, Namely “overall precast rhombic steel skeleton system”..

The building is located in the urban center of Beijing, opposite the art museum and next to a historical alley.

special structural form of dry hanging stone curtain wall the structural form of dry hanging stone curtain wall of the project is different from that of traditional dry hanging stone curtain wall, which is neither unit type nor ordinary component type.

Because only from the outer surface, we can’t find the basic architectural functional elements such as column grid, floor, lighting and ventilation in general buildings, but it is indeed a special architectural podium, and all architectural functions are cleverly realized under this special shape design.

The facade of the lower part of the building is composed of pixel patterns like gray stones.

The project is located in the downtown area of Beijing, with limited building height and high requirements.

In front of it is the headquarters of CCTV building designed by Zaha Hadid’s Galaxy SOHO and OMA firm.

After more than 30 years of practice and development, it is superior to wet pasted stone curtain wall in material and structure.

Architects pay more attention to how to highlight the artistic effect and natural beauty effect of architecture on new buildings, In particular, the organic combination of stone curtain wall representing entity and glass curtain wall representing illusion is the first choice of many architects.

For the integrity of these pixels, the stone joints must be arranged in a diamond shape, and 41 geometric bodies must be formed into continuous stone joints, so as to form a “building block” overall podium.

To realize the design concept of the above architects, the design and construction of exterior wall curtain wall will face great challenges.

The architect reflects the most important landscape painting “fuchunshan residence” in Chinese history on the facade through thousands of perforations.

The building is embedded in the historical context of the center of Beijing.

Compared with the regular rectangular glass curtain wall on the upper part, the outer surface of the dry hanging stone curtain wall on the lower part forms a huge contrast.

Located in the southwest corner of the intersection of May 4th Street and Wangfujing Street in Beijing, the “Beijing Jiade Art Center” project is a typical representative of using natural granite in the podium to realize the architect’s special design concept.

Not only the facade has prominent concave convex, overhanging and back platform, but also there are nearly 4000 holes of different sizes on the stone facade.

As a building material with better durability, closer to nature, solemn and luxurious, dry hanging stone is gradually replacing the early widely popular curtain wall design with glass in a large area.

For this small building, the design and construction of curtain wall will subvert the traditional curtain wall design and construction concept.

Natural stone is beautiful and natural.

Through the organic arrangement and combination of these holes, The pixels of Fuchun mountain house are abstracted.

At present, the dry hanging granite process has been widely used in the internal and external wall finishes of large public buildings, especially in the podium and curtain wall projects with a height of less than 30m.

Natural stone has been gradually recognized and accepted by the public, and has been widely used in all kinds of buildings.

Granite has high compressive strength and hardness, strong weathering and corrosion resistance, long service life and uniform natural pigment.

Its characteristic is that it can not only create magnificent architectural art effect, but also bring fresh and comfortable natural impression to people.

It is an ideal exterior wall decoration material in buildings.

The project is developed by “Beijing Huangdu Real Estate Development Co., Ltd.” and invested by “Taikang house (Beijing) Investment Co., Ltd.” the famous German architect OLE Sheren cooperates with Beijing Architectural Design and Research Institute.

The following analyzes its particularity from three aspects: the structural form of dry hanging stone curtain wall, the anchorage design with the main steel structure, and the structural system design of stone curtain wall.

Compared with the Royal Forbidden City, brick is more universal, more representative of civil society and its values, a humble and non elitist concept in Chinese culture.

The upper part of the building echoes with the modern city of Beijing through large-scale glass bricks, and its architectural texture resonates with the adjacent hutongs and quadrangles.

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At the same time, considering the actual use functions of the project, it will face many difficulties and challenges in architectural design, structural design, curtain wall system design and engineering construction.

Buildings using natural stone as exterior wall decoration materials have a stable and simple historical background.

The “Jiade Art Center” located near the Forbidden City in Beijing will become the new headquarters of China’s earliest art auction house.

It can be imagined that this is more appropriate to be a sculpture art than a building podium.

According to the architect’s design concept of the outer wall, the brick and stone “pixels” in the style of “green brick” are placed at the bottom of the building.