At a design strategy level, AMICO materials offer an excellent opportunity to introduce color, texture, and varying levels of opacity to your facade design. Many facades, such as a glass-dominated facade, need a means and method for breaking up what may become an overly monotonous surface.   These perforated or mesh surfaces could be expansive, or even just an accent formulated to make a restrained design statement.

Benefits of Using AMICO Materials for Facades

Customization:  Use our Picture PERFect custom perforation process to take your one-of-a-kind imagery or texture and create a surface distinctive to your building.

Aesthetic appeal:  Create visually striking exteriors

Unique design statements: AMICO’s materials can be bespoke solutions that allow you to stand out and make a statement for design.  

Introduce color to your design: AMICO materials offer a wide range of colors. While we have preferred paint and powder coat providers, we are flexible enough to apply finishes that meet your precise specifications and color.

Energy Efficiency: AMICO materials are frequently used for sunshades, allowing for natural light in a space, while managing the heat gain inside.

Facade Project Case Study

Medtronics Customer Perforated Facade:

Snow Kreilich Architects helped Medtronic Corporation to orchestrate the consolidation, renovation, and linking of two existing buildings into a new cohesive headquarters office and manufacturing facility in California. The facade played a significant role in this development by creating cohesiveness around the newly linked structures. The custom perforated facade design did not stop on the outside; the same pattern followed through to interior surfaces as well, including feature walls and area screens.

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Crustacean, Expanded Mesh Adaptive Re-use Facade Project:

This facade remodel project sparingly leveraged expanded mesh on its facade to make just the appropriate design statement. Instead of covering large areas of the facade, the mesh was used to create focal points and be an accent to the overall material palette.