Abstract
A brief review of the presence of the stone in façades from load bearing walls to the simple skin function is presented to describe the wall and cladding methods and systems in existing and modern façades.
Adhered cladding systems to backup walls, stand alone panels and non-adhered fixing systems are described in this chapter. In all systems the main concern is to obtain an efficient water barrier pointing to the crucial function of an air space that is needed to improve the façade’s performance as a rain screen.
The cladding held onto the building by an anchorage structure and a layer of insulation anchored to the grid supporting stone slabs creates a gap formed between the structure and the building thus becomes a space in which the circulation of air decreases temperature excursions, improving the building’s performance.
The most used anchoring systems for natural stone cladding are briefly described.
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Sousa Camposinhos, R.d. (2014). Wall and Cladding Systems. In: Stone Cladding Engineering. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6848-2_3
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