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signa IN BRIEF Your self-created brick pattern on weather-resistant Rockpanel® Signa gives a whole new dimension to brick as a facade cladding. This is an innovative facade cladding system that offers you many possibilities for exclusive projects, high-rise buildings or other architectural projects. You can create your own design with expressive facades that fully highlight the character of brick. While at the same time you are opting for a fast result. Do you want a robust or elegantly irregular full-relief facade, entirely according to your individual design with Vertical, horizontal or...

WHAT IS signa? Signa consists of a weather-resistant Rockpanel® onto which a composition - possibly designed by you - of Vandersanden brick slips is adhesively bonded. The panels are produced for you ready-to-use. In this way you can give your projects a unique and striking look. “As an architect, you can now play like a virtuoso with relief, colour, format and brickwork bond and this even in projects where a brick finishing may have initially appeared to be unfeasible.”

TECHNICAL CHARACTERISTICS Rockpanel® The supporting panel on which the brick slips are adhesively bonded in the factory is a form-retaining and weatherresistant Rockpanel® board composed of compressed and solidified basalt rock fibres. The format is variable and can be optimally harmonised with your project. Vandersanden brick slips For the brick slips you can select any brick from the Vandersanden line. This is regardless of format, colour or direction of saw cut – even diagonally cut is possible. You also possess an un-precedented degree of freedom with regard to brickwork bonds,...

Signa gives you the freedom to tell your visual story. Want to emphasise surfaces? Allow textures to contrast? Make use of depth and stratification? Play with the thickness of the material? With Signa you can give your design its own unique rhythm. As a visitor approaches the building, different details will draw the attention every time. In this way, your design receives its very own … Signa-ture.

On the basis of four variables millions of patterns are conceivable. format As a basis you can use the stretcher, header and slip of five Vandersanden brick formats: COLOUR You choose and combine from the full Vandersanden line. We offer you a range of more than one hundred colours, expanded by the four surface textures: hand-moulded, formback, water-struck and aged. You do not have to limit yourself to just a single cutting line. By combining several cutting lines you create an intense composition with a varying relief that is full of character. take a look at the film on...

1 COLOUR 43 Argentis format WF BOND stack bond (header) reliEf 2 COLOUR 513 billund 515 herning format WF BOND Vertical stack bond (stretcher) reliEf 20 mm

COLOUR 45 lithium format WF BOND personal creation reliEf 20 mm 30 mm COLOUR 73 leto format WF BOND personal creation reliEf

MOUNTING The ready-to-use Signa panel can be mounted in several ways. Screw or glue Signa onto an aluminium or wood framework. This framework can be mounted on a range of different substrates. aluminium support structure The posts of the aluminium support structure are mounted against the bearing wall. In new construction this the inner cavity wall, in renovations the existing facade. After installation of, preferably black coated, insulation between the vertical aluminium T-profiles, horizontal C-profiles are mounted. Specialised installation companies then fasten the Signa panels with...

Advantages of Signa for you as an architect you create an intriguing field of tension between far off and close by: a captivating overall picture with striking details where different patterns define the rhythm. you have a structural system that makes a brick finishing possible where earlier this was not always feasible, e.g. with large corbels. you create your own brick composition with relief, colour, format, brickwork bonds, combinations and repetition of patterns you can easily provide for large insulation thicknesses.

you work with a simple, known and tried-and-tested mounting system of form-retaining materials. you benefit from a long-lasting and maintenance-friendly facade custom-designed for your building. you have better control over the amount of time required, thanks to the favourable construction speed. you make a future-oriented choice, thanks to a building system that can be disassembled, replaced and recycled. you enrich the landscape with a distinctive and unique building

FROM DESIGN TO IMPLEMENTATION You work out a unique pattern of brick slips. We discuss with you the possibilities of the designed composition and work out a three-dimensional visualisation of the panel. The mounting method is determined. The facade plan is fully elaborated in detail.

transports the panels safely # and punctually to the work site. With Signa, you're opting for a comprehensive service from design to implementation. Are there any questions during or after this process? Our specialists are there to assist you with advice and action.

Signa stands for … brick freedom. Even the most striking facades can become a reality. Vandersanden produces what you create. The different variables give you limitless possibilities. From sketch to implementation: we are delighted to assist you with tips and advice. Wouldyou like to know more? Make an appointment via bricksolutions@vandersanden.com Would you like to have more details? You can download all the recommendations and tips for building with Signa at www.signapanels.be

Feel inspired? Then get to work!

HAVE A SPECIAL IDEA ABOUT FACADE DESIGN, MATERIAL SPECIFICATIONS OR TECHNIQUES? Do not hesitate to e-mail your questions or ideas to the Vandersanden Group. Our specialists would be happy to explore what is possible. bricksolutions@vandersanden.com

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