18mm Terracotta Wall Panel System Helps Reduced Weight of Wall Area

LOPO China offer many variety thickness of terracotta panel, such as 12mm, 15mm, 18mm, 22mm, 30mm, 45mm, 50mm etc. 18mm Lightweight terracotta wall panel system has excellent durability, reduced weight per unit area. What’s more , a secure “clip and hold” affixing system make 18mm terracotta panel ideal for new construction as well as retrofit and re-clad applications All these feature makes the beauty of terracotta facade tiles available at an attractive cost.

18mm terracotta panel for exterior wall is designed as a ventilated curtain wall solution and is produced from environmentally and responsible clay-based construction materials. LOPO Terracotta panel is available in small and medium format elements. And LOPO customizes each order to meet the client’s desired dimensions. LOPO offers an extensive range of colors, surface finishes, textures and profiles ensures a place in almost any project. LOPO’s expertise in complex mixing techniques and traditional firing methods set the standard for Terracotta facade design. All LOPO Terracotta products are weather and frost resistant.

18mm terracotta facade panel can achieve compelling visual effects with profiled surface grooves and textures, available in Natural, Grooved, Sand, Strip-line, Corrugate, Wood grain finishes etc. Except that, LOPO also produced glazed finishes, available in matte and semi-gloss, feature white or colored clay slip coating applied to the terracotta body to impart colors or textures. Architect-specified glazed finishes are also available, allowing an additional range of colors that can be manufactured specifically for a given project.

Many building owners, designers and construction teams are now considering terracotta wall panel whenever renovating and reconstructing façades with this system, which supports rainscreen wall panel up to 1,800mm in length and 1,200mm in height. For more details, please contact us.

LOPO Terracotta Wall Panel Applied In Villa Projects

As an environmentally-friendly exterior wall material, terracotta wall panel has been widely used in large public buildings (government buildings, hospital, library, school, parking lot etc.) and high-end commercial buildings(apartment, shopping mall, office building etc.). In these large projects, wall facade terracotta panel acts as an important exterior wall element that, through its surface texture, color collocation, shape and dimension, creates diverse architectural styles including magnificence or stylishness.

For small architectural projects such as villa, architectural desingers previously were likely to prefer traditional exterior materials such as clay face brick, marble stone and ceramic tile, as these buildings were small and many were even private projects. However, Terracotta facade panel is very flexible and varied when it comes to design as well as application in exterior walls. As for installation method, mechanical fixing or wet overlaying can be adopted; as for dimension, a variety of conventional dimensions are available, and terracotta facade wall cladding panel can be cut as per the projects’ needs; as for visual display, terracotta panel with texture and finish (natural flat, wood grainy, grooved, linear, sanding, corrugated surface) naturally formed in the process of extrusion or with colorful glazed surface can be selected. In villa projects, Terracotta Cladding can be used to created unique styles for small architecturall projects.

LOPO terracotta panel has been applied in many villa projects. Here below are two examples where different syltes have been created.

Project: Honghu Diequan Bay Villa(2013)
Location: Fujian, China
Designed by NEXT architects
Project Item: F301876, FG301876
Project QTY: 45000 SQM

In the exterior walls of this building, the Dutch designer widely applied brown flat-surface terracotta panels and grooved surface terracotta panels, creating an Amsterdam post-modern residential style for this project.
Project: Yipin Man City Villa (2012)
Location: Shanghai, China
Designed by ECS Engineering Consulting Services GmbH
Project Item: FX5018771
Project QTY: 3200 SQM

The German design scattered brown linear-surface terracotta panels in small portion of the villa’s exterior elevation, to add warm color to the private villa, breaking the dullness and tediousness exhibited by stone exterior walls of this building’s main body.

LOPO Artificial Brick – The Oriental Elegance of Interior Decoration

Originated from America, Artificial stone is quite fashionable in the worldwide nowadays. It has formed a very rich product series after nearly half century’s development. But most of classical artificial stone are used in interior decoration are go with strong western style, whether the rough sanding surface cultured stone or the natural surface artificial brick. With the popularity of Chinese culture around the world, the characteristics of Chinese element – -nature, simplicity, exquisite and elegance have deeply influenced all fields of design life.

LOPO artificial stone applied in the interior wall, partition wall or partly decoration, can create the oriental appeal filled with ecology, nature, connotation and dignified of inner space through the special material and color of Faux stone. From the perspective of Chinese style, there are two classical Chinese elements: one is southern amorous feelings, which is presented by the grey-green brick, white wall and landscape architecture. Most colors of grey-green antique brick is gray tone with different depth, the surface is slick or antique looking. With the application of this kind of cultured stone on the wall, and decorated with Chinese classical accessories such as Chinese brush drawing, calligraphy, wall ornaments, etc. can easily build the millennial culture atmosphere and elegance freshness of Chinese southern town.

The other one is Chinese red brick wall tile. “Green tree and red wall” is one of the traditional Chinese style construction. Whether it is the red clay brick wall go through all the vicissitudes of life, the neatly stacked, dignified royal court style or it is the small jasper Chinese courtyard, both can perfectly presented its style and artistic conception by LOPO Artificial Stone.

As the Artificial cultured brick has been popularity gradually, LOPO is also trying hard to unscramble Chinese long-standing culture in new perspective. Combined the expression of modern pragmatism and Chinese traditional element, LOPO designed the artificial stone products with LOPO cultured brick appeal, moreover, LOPO has developed a series of Faux stone products like Chinese characters brick, antique brick, grey-green brick. With wide ranges of texture and rich color gradation, LOPO Artificial stone can provide more inspiration for architects to demonstrate Chinese Style Clay brick tile.

For more information about LOPO Clay Brick Tile, please visit http://www.lopoterracotta.com/cultured-stone/

What Are The Real Savings of Using Manufactured Cultured Stone Cladding?

Compared to natural stone, manufactured stone veneer is a very economical. Why? Because manufactured stone is cheap than natural stone, you can expect savings of around 30% on the overall materials if you purchase manufactured stone veneer.  What’s more, you can also save on installation costs.  Because manufactured stones are so light weight and easy to install that you don’t even require skilled labor or any special tools like natural stone). It is just so convenient that it takes less time to install thus less money from your hip pocket.

When you choose to using manufactured stone veneer for home decoration, you can save considerable time. Because the stones are cast in manageable sheets and it is quick to install much like a ceramic tile is. Imagine being able to complete a stone cladding project in just 1 day compared to 2 or 3 days with heavy natural stone?

If you are choosing to use the renewable resource, then just choose artificial culture stone. Manufactured artificial culture stones are made from controlled cement materials and it is eco-friendly, while natural stone products are depleting the world of its finite natural stone product and mining areas of natural beauty to extract the stone. LOPO China uses much less materials to cover the same area as would a natural stone product to form the manufactured stone veneer in a light weight thin panel. And cultured stone cladding products do not have any excess wastage of the materials like a natural stone product does. To make a natural stone piece that is usable takes a lot of cutting and wastage. And that wastage cannot be used in an interior design project. The manufacture artificial stones are customized order and the quantity of material required to make your exclusive design is measured precisely. No wastage…and by making this choice, you also help to improve the environment.

In a word, manufactured stone veneer is a fantastic interior design product. It can not only save time and serious money on your project when you choose stone veneer but also help you choose the best colors and stone styles.

For more information about manufactured stone wall cladding products, please feel free to contact us.