1. ELEMENTS AND COMPONENTS OF
BUILDING FAÇADE OF INDUSTRIAL
BUILDING
SUBMITTED SUBMITTED BY:-
TO:- MOHIT SAMOTRA
MR. RAVI B. Tech-URP-II
INDER SINGH Sem.
CHEEMA
GRD SCHOOL OF PLANNING
GURU NANK DEV UNIVERSITY
AMRITSAR

2. CONTENTS
1.INDUSTRIAL BUILDING:
2.INDUSTRIAL BUILDING FACDE IN OLD TIMES
3.COMPONENTS of BUILDING FAÇADE:
3.1.Gates and entrances
3.2.Advertising signs
4.ELEMENTS of BUILDING FAÇADE:
4.1.Brick
4.2.Stone
4.3.Terra Cotta
4.4.GFRC panels
5.CONCLUSION
6.BIBLIOGRAPHY

3. 1.INDUSTRIAL BUILDING:
An industrial building
means a building used for
carrying on any process
for any of the following
purposes:
•The making of any
article or any part of any
article
•The altering, repairing,
ornamenting, finishing,
cleaning, washing,
packing or canning, or
breaking up or demolition
of any article

4. 2.Industrial building facade in old times:
Even today, in an all-too-often rundown condition, old industrial
buildings send a clear historical message that cannot be disputed.
Since the dawn of large scale industrialisation, cities have
witnessed the construction of factories of titanic proportions.
Iconic structure is the Vickers Building, built in 1907 as the head office of
Vickers, the steel, engineering and munitions giant.

5. 3.COMPONENTS of BUILDING FACADE:
3.1.Gates and entrances:- Reception area provides visitors with
a first and lasting impression of buildings facilities and utilities.
The main focus of this area is the entrance door – it should be
both welcoming and user-friendly. It should keep wind, dust and
noise out, at the same time keeping energy consumption to a
minimum.
Two prominent orientations of industrial building entrances are:

7. 3.2.Advertising signs:- Signage is any kind of visual graphics
created to display information to a particular audience. This is
typically manifested in the form of way finding information in
places such as streets or inside/outside of buildings.
A specimen signage
board used by IPC (Iraq
petroleum corporation).

8. 4.ELEMENTS of BUILDING FACADE:
4.1.Brick: A brick is a block
or a single unit of a ceramic
material used in masonry
construction. Typically bricks
are stacked together or laid as
brickwork using various kinds
of mortar to hold the bricks
together and make a
permanent structure. It acts as
a fundamental element for
building up façade of an
industrial building. It has used
from traditional times and
even now have equal
importance.

9. 4.2.Stone: Stone is a highly durable, low maintenance building
material with high thermal mass. It is versatile, available in many
shapes, sizes, colours and textures, and can be used for floors,
walls, arches and roofs.
The imposing sandstone
façade-Textile mill,
Volterra, Tuscany

10. 4.3.Terra Cotta: Terracotta, Terra cotta or Terra-cotta (Italian: "baked
earth", from the Latin terra cotta), a type of earthenware, is a clay-
based unglazed or glazed ceramic, where the fired body is porous.
Terracotta, in its unglaze Terracotta had the advantage of being cheap
and light. It was adaptable to mass-production techniques for stock
shapes, although the plaster moulds had a limited capability for re-
used form, became fashionable as an architectural ceramic
construction material.
Use of terra cotta for
carvings, embossed pictures,
and signage is major use of it
in façade of industrial
building.

11. 4.4.GFRC panels : Glass Fiber Reinforced Concrete (GFRC) is a type
of fiber reinforced concrete. Glass fiber concretes are mainly used in
exterior building façade panels and as architectural precast concrete. A
widely used application for fiber-reinforced concrete is structural
panal, obtained by adhering and consolidating thin layers of fibers and
matrix into the desired thickness. The fiber orientation in each layer as
well as the stacking sequence of various layers can be controlled to
generate a wide range of physical and mechanical properties for the
composite panel.
UC Davis Parking Structure,
Davis, California

12. 5.CONCLUSION
•Building facade have a major role to play in building aesthetics
and its visual impression about its function and utility. I have
analyzed components and elements for facade construction and
consulted on repairs.
•Building facade of an industrial building has a great role to
play in building aesthetics and visual impression of the building.
New construction material and techniques are transforming
façade construction day by day.

13. BIBLIOGRAPHY
•BOOKS :
1. Industrial Architecture For Developing Countries_Ahmed
Nizammudin_725.4/A286I
2. Industrial Building Design_John A. Rolfes and Robert A.
MacCrimmon
•URL’s :
1. http://www.dreamstime.com/stock-photo-facade-modern-industrial-
building-image6800890
2. http://www.architonic.com/aipjt/project/5920013/0/2/1
3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass_fiber_reinforced_concrete
4. http://www.factoryarchitecture.net/category/architecture/