Unitised Façade System Designed with a Highly Transparent Façade of Low G-value. Combined with Blast Requirements: 20 Farringdon Street a Case Study

Today’s architectural demand for transparency has been developed to attain maximum daylight saturation which is aimed to improve the well-being of users and maximise interaction with the outside. However, transparency also needs to be combined with the requirements of moderating heat gains (achieving low g-value).

 Figure 1.1. Farringdon Street is approximately aligned along a north-south axis and is lined with tall mixed-use buildings (Denton Corker Marshall, London).