Whisk-away façades [202]

In the Californian climate, the seeking of spectacular solutions is motivating the emergence of multiple full whisk-away displacement of the facade, raising it up in various ways. However, in this Californian home by Peter DeMaria, it is the glass facade what retracts into visor, opening two facades of the living room and turning it into an outside porch [227]. The following two solutions designed by Barton Myers have the same Californian character. In the first [189] the facade rises and turns to be attached to the ceiling of the room. The amplitude of the segments, allowing this rotation, makes the facade lattice be not as apparent as one might suppose. In the second [199] Myers adds to the previous solution an external protection metal sheet, which is rolled outwards, to provide the security that the previous suffers.

There are some cases in which this is whisk-away movement grows to surprising dimensions. Let us first look this Ecuadorian house [244] in which two large sliding joinery close the dining room. Other spectacular cases are Hangar House in Los Angeles [224] and the Decameron huge showroom in Sao Paulo with its robust sliding polycarbonate façade [223].