Terracotta

Terracotta tiles offer an alternative cladding system with a ventilated cavity type construction. The tiles are available in various sizes, colours and profiles and can be fixed with a support rail system engineered by Thermosash with interlocking brackets that ensure the tiles do not dislodge during extreme building movement or high winds. The material can also be incorporated into a Thermosash unitised cladding system, enabling a higher level of productivity on site via pre-installed factory assembled panels.

The Terracotta tiles are extruded and baked to very exacting tolerances that provide a very clean linear appearance on the building.

Tiles are available in various lengths up to 1200mm, as well as baguettes which are square hollow tubes, designed to provide an aesthetic shading element to a building's facade.

Thermosash undertook in house testing including impact and moisture absorbency tests to ensure that our selected supplier will meet our performance requirements. We ultimately selected a supplier whose tiles meet the strict impact testing standard called the “ballproof test” in conformance with DIN 18032-3 making our systems ideal for buildings subject to high movement and high mechanical stress - such as public buildings and schools for example.

Thermosash has designed, manufactured and installed bespoke facade unitised curtainwall and cassette rainscreen solutions incorporating Terracotta tiles on a number of high-profile projects.

Thermosash Terracotta Brochure download

Projects Thermosash has undertaken utilising a terracotta tile cladding system;

• Skycity Grand Hotel, Auckland
• Taranaki Base Hospital
  
• North Shore Elective Hospital, Auckland
• Beatrice Tinsley Building - Univeristy of Canterbury
• Columbia Apartments, Auckland

Should you be considering utilising Terracotta tiles - either as a rail system or integrated into unitised panel facade system - contact us to discuss your project.