Ventilated facade – ideas for modern buildings creation

A memorable ventilated façade attracts attention to a building, highlighting it within the surrounding environment. Apart from that, modern façades enable to substantially increase the energy efficiency of a building.

Quality façade cladding involving energy-saving façade solutions or ventilated façades based on solar panels, allows reducing the heating and air-conditioning costs of a real estate object by -30%.

A modern building façade can be performed with sandwich panels or as ventilated façade. Ventilated curtain walling can be arranged using various cladding materials, such as rainscreen panels and lamellas, design profiles, low-profile corrugated metal, Cor-ten steel, solar and glass panels.

We will show you various options of ventilated facades based on implemented projects with Ruukki products, which will help guide you through the architectural possibilities and the range of ventilated façade materials.

Rainscreen panels

Metal rainscreen panels can be up to 3 m in size and are virtually unlimited in colour solutions, which allows creating unique façade design. Depending on dimensions and facing type, the price for rainscreen panels can vary significantly. In this case, the smaller a ventilated rainscreen panel is, the higher its price per 1 m² appears to be.

If the client wishes to make a ventilated façade even more expressive-looking, metal rainscreen panels can be perforated and contain internal backlighting, enabling the building to play with new colours at night time. It is worth saying, that steel rainscreen panels are highly durable, which justifies their cost. Rainscreen panels can be produced out of polymer-coated steel, aluminium, copper, bronze, titanium-zinc, and stainless steel.

Skanska Business Centre, Sweden
Ruukki Liberta rainscreen panels

Scania Car Service Station, Ukraine
Ruukki Liberta rainscreen panels

Mega Shopping Centre, Ukraine
Ruukki Liberta rainscreen panels

K-Rauta Shopping Centre, Finland
Ruukki Liberta perfo rainscreen panels

Zerva Office Building, Sweden
Ruukki Liberta perfo backlit rainscreen panels

Façade lamellas

Ventilated façade of a modern building can be built using metal façade lamellas. Façade lamellas make a building look slender and modern. They are used as cladding material for ventilated façades, as well as in perforated and backlit ventilated façades. Façade lamellas are manufactured in various sizes and can be installed horizontally or vertically. Lamellas can be of polymer-coated steel with a broad colour range, of aluminium, copper, bronze, titan-zinc, and stainless steel.

Panorama Business Centre, Finland
Ruukki Lamella façade lamellas

Ruukki Factory, Ukraine
Ruukki Lamella façade lamellas, Ruukki Liberta rainscreen panels, Ruukki sandwich panels

Motonet Shopping Centre, Finland
Ruukki Lamella façade lamellas, Ruukki sandwich panels

Ukrtelekom Office Building, Ukraine
Ruukki Lamella façade lamellas, Ruukki Liberta rainscreen panels

Cor-ten steel

Cor-ten steel ventilated curtain walling is a new vision of atmosphere-resistant steel in architecture. A unique property of Cor-ten is changing colour in the course of time from velvet bronze to noble saturated brown. Cor-ten steel façades do not require maintenance throughout the whole useful life of a building. Due to such properties, leading architects apply Cor-ten steel ventilated façades around the world.

Parnu Bay Golf Centre, Estonia
Cor-ten steel

Globol Logistics Centre, Poland
Ruukki Liberta Cor-ten rainscreen panels

Akropolis Shopping and Entertainment Centre, Lithuania
Ruukki Liberta Cor-ten rainscreen panels

Medical Centre, Estonia
Ruukki Lamella Cor-ten rainscreen panels

Educational institution, Sweden
Ruuki Cor-ten façade systems

Cottage Console house, Bulgaria
Cor-Ten steel

Intop Office Building, Poland
Cor-ten steel

Malmö Saluhall Shopping Centre, Sweden
Ruukki Cor-ten designer profiles

Design profiles

Curtain walling of design profiles gives minimalist style to architecture and creates a rhythm of surfaces. A ventilated façade from design profiles can have various types of profiling – from micro profiles to high sinusoid waves. Design profiles can be successfully combined in terms of colour solutions, which substantially broadens the possibilities for creating unique architecture.

Sports complex UTE, Hungary
Ruukki Design profiles

Ruukki Office Building, Finland
Ruukki Design profiles, Ruukki Lamella façade lamellas

Ruukki Factory, Sweden
Ruukki Design profiles, Ruukki Lamella Cor-ten façade lamellas

Kaubamajakas Shopping Center, Estonia
Ruukki Design perfo design profiles

Car showroom, Finland
Ruukki Design perfo design profiles

Low-profile sheets

A modern façade can be erected using cost-effective low trapezoid profiles. A corrugated metal ventilated façade has minimum price, is highly durable and easy to install. In this case, usage of corrugated metal for ventilated façade cladding also allows creating memorable architectural solutions.

Looki Food Enterprise, Finland
Ruukki trapezoid profile

Luciano Shop, Ukraine
Ruukki trapezoid profile

Azhur Factory, Ukraine
Ruukki trapezoid profile

Ilyich Mariupol Factory Office Building, Ukraine
Ruukki trapezoid profile

Rogan Meat Factory, Ukraine
Ruukki trapezoid profile

Standing seam profile

Nowadays standing seam profile cladding materials are becoming especially popular among architects due to the possibility to create a laconic linear façade. Standing seam profiles as ventilated façade cladding are bright, stylish, and modern.

Coliving ONE, Ukraine
Ruukki standing seam profile

Tin House residential building, UK
Ruukki standing seam profile

Residential house, Finland
Ruukki standing seam profile

Residential house, Lithuania
Ruukki standing seam profile

Office building, UK
Ruukki standing seam profile

Sandwich panels

Modern sandwich panels allow creating not only highly efficient energy-saving building envelopes, but also give a façade memorable appearance. This can involve usage of a broad colour palette, a combination of various colours, as well as the possibility to apply images or arranging ventilated façade above sandwich panels.

Nurminen Logistics Complex, Finland
Ruukki sandwich panels, Ruukki Liberta rainscreen panels

Axor Factory, Ukraine
Ruukki sandwich panels, Ruukki Liberta rainscreen panels

Epicenter Hypermarket, Ukraine
Ruukki sandwich panels

Zeppelin Car Service Station, Ukraine
Ruukki sandwich panels

Teremki Bus Station, Ukraine
Ruukki sandwich panels

DHL Logistics Centre, Finland
Ruukki sandwich panels

Västergårdarena Sports Complex, Sweden
Ruukki sandwich panels

Malmo Arena Stadium, Sweden
Ruukki sandwich panels

Emporia Shopping Centre, Sweden
Ruukki sandwich panels

Commercial building, Sweden
Ruukki sandwich panels

Solar panels

Ventilated curtain walling with solar panels cladding is an optimal solution for office, shopping, public, and residential buildings. Ventilated façade from solar panels is easy to integrate with other façade cladding materials and enables reduction of costs for building operation through getting additional electrical power.

School, Finland
Ruukki Liberta Solar panels

Glazed and mirror façades

A ventilated façade system with external glazing makes the building architecture look slender, and also allows increasing its energy efficiency due to application of non-transparent inner surface of rainscreen panels.