Mineral wool facade integration

The report of Graduation Project from Jasper Overkleeft, is a quest for a new facade material with the focus on a mono material facade. This will contain that all the functions of the facade will be integrated in one material. It means that what normally a cavity wall will do, protect the inner climate from cooling or heating too much, keeping out the moist (rain) and vapour, will be integrated in one material. A facade wall is also supposed to be self-supporting. The self-supporting property can be divided in two main categories; the weight of facade construction (dead load) and the wind that is pushing against the wall (wind load). These loads combined will have to be carried by the facade construction. If looked at history there is a trend of adding a product or system to the facade wall when they needed a extra function. For example the cavity of a facade wall is added mainly for protection against penetrating water through the wall. That resulted in a extra layer in the facade wall meaning; extra weight, building time and materials. This mono material facade will have a base material which is mineral Wool. This insulating material is already used in between cavity’s, roof cladding and sandwich-panels, but used only for the low thermal conductivity. Combining more functions in this material will be a good improvement in production, building time and recycling.