Building envelope element comprising a thermal insulating element

Abstract

A building cover element is described with at least one, preferably stationary arranged fastening device, which comprises an exterior section aligned to the exterior of a building to be provided with the building cover element, comprising at least one film element, which shows an exterior film layer to be arranged at the exterior of the building and anchored with an edge section at the fastening device, and with at least one thermally insulating element. The thermally insulating element is arranged with a first section at the exterior section of the fastening device and with at least one second section resting on the edge section of the exterior film layer of at least one film element.

Claims

1. A building cover element with at least one fastening device comprising an interior section and an exterior section, wherein the exterior section comprises an inner side and an outer side, the outer side of the exterior section of the fastening device being aligned to an exterior of a building to be provided with the building cover element, with at least one film element comprising an exterior film layer to be arranged at the exterior of the building and anchored with an edge section to the fastening device between its interior section and the inner side of its exterior section wherein the exterior film layer and its edge section comprises an inner side and an outer side, the outer side of the exterior film layer and its edge section being aligned toward the exterior of the building, and with at least one thermally insulating element comprising an inner side and an uncovered outer side, wherein the thermally insulating element is arranged with a first section of its inner side covering the outer side of the exterior section of the fastening device and with at least one second section of its inner side on the outer side of the edge section of the exterior film layer of the at least one film element.

2. A thermally insulating element for a building cover element, which comprises at least one fastening device comprising an interior section and an exterior section wherein the exterior section comprises an inner side and an outer side, the outer side of the exterior section of the fastening device being aligned to an exterior of a building to be provided with the building cover element, and at least one film element comprising an exterior film layer to be arranged at the exterior of the building and with an edge section anchored to the fastening device between its interior section and the inner side of its exterior section wherein the exterior film layer and its edge section comprises an inner side and an outer side, the outer side of the exterior film layer and its edge section being aligned toward the exterior of the building, wherein the thermally insulating element comprises an inner side and an uncovered outer side and a first section of the inner side of the thermally insulating element is embodied to cover the outer side of the exterior section of the fastening device and at least one second section of the inner side of the thermally insulating element is embodied to rest on the outer side of the edge section of the exterior film layer of the at least one film element.

3. An element according to claim 1, wherein the film element is embodied as a film cushion, which in addition to the exterior film layer comprises at least one interior film layer facing an inside of the building, with at least one cavity being formed between these two film layers in a gas-tight, sealed fashion, comprising gas.

4. An element according to claim 1, wherein the thermally insulating element comprises an insulating body made of thermally insulating solid material and the insulating body in an area of the second section of the thermally insulating element rests directly on the edge section of the exterior film layer of the film element or via an insulating sealing strip.

5. An element according to claim 4, wherein the outer side of the insulating body comprises an exterior metallic layer.

6. An element according to claim 4, wherein an interior metallic layer is arranged at an inside of the insulating body facing the fastening device outside the second section.

7. An element according to claim 5, wherein the metallic layer is connected fixed to the insulating body.

8. An element according to claim 5, wherein the metallic layer is made from a metallic profile.

9. An element according to claim 1, in which the fastening device comprises a first fastening section, with the edge section of the at least one film element being anchored thereat, and a second fastening section approximately opposite the first fastening section, at which an edge section of another film element is anchored, wherein the thermally insulating element rests with its first section at the exterior section of the fastening device between its two fastening sections and with the at least one second section on the edge section of the exterior film layer of the at least one film element and with a third section on the edge section of an exterior film layer of the another film element.

10. An element according to claim 6, wherein the metallic layer is connected fixed to the insulating body.

11. An element according to claim 2, wherein the film element is a film cushion, which in addition to the exterior film layer comprises at least one interior film layer facing an inside of the building, with at least one cavity being formed between these two film layers in a gas-tight, sealed fashion, comprising gas.

12. An element according to claim 2, wherein the thermally insulating element comprises an insulating body made of thermally insulating solid material and the insulating body in an area of the second section of the thermally insulating element rests directly on the edge section of the exterior film layer of the film element or via an insulating sealing strip.

13. An element according to claim 12, wherein the outer side of the insulating body comprises an exterior metallic layer.

14. An element according to claim 12, wherein an interior metallic layer is arranged at an inside of the insulating body facing the fastening device outside the second section.

15. An element according to claim 13, wherein the metallic layer is connected fixed to the insulating body.

16. An element according to claim 14, wherein the metallic layer is connected fixed to the insulating body.

17. An element according to 13, wherein the metallic layer is made from a metallic profile.

18. An element according to claim 2, in which the fastening device comprises a first fastening section, with the edge section of the at least one film element being anchored thereat, and a second fastening section approximately opposite the first fastening section, at which an edge section of another film element is anchored, wherein the thermally insulating element rests with its first section at the exterior section of the fastening device between its two fastening sections and with the at least one second section on the edge section of the exterior film layer of the at least one film element and with a third section on the edge section of an exterior film layer of the another film element.

19. An element according to claim 4, wherein the thermally insulating solid material is hard foam.

20. An element according to claim 12, wherein the thermally insulating solid material is hard foam.

21. An element according to claim 6, wherein the metallic layer is made from a metallic profile.

22. An element according to 14, wherein the metallic layer is made from a metallic profile.

Description

(1) In the following a preferred exemplary embodiment of the invention is explained in greater detail using the attached drawing. It shows:

(2) FIG. 1 schematically in a cross-section a detail of a film faade or roofing system with a fastening and sections of film cushions fastened thereat at both sides.

(3) A film faade or film roofing system of the type discussed here comprises a plurality of film elements essentially arranged side-by-side as well as a framework structure, at which the film elements are anchored, and which therefore serves as the fastening device for the film elements. FIG. 1 shows a detail of a preferred embodiment of a film roofing system, in which the film elements are made from film cushions.

(4) Concretely, FIG. 1 shows a frame profile 2 as a part of the above-mentioned framework structure as an example. At one side of the frame profile, in the illustration of FIG. 1 it is the top, a fastening 4 is arranged which in the exemplary embodiment shown comprises a base profile 4a and a lid profile 4b. The fastening 4 is fastened with the base profile 4a at the frame 2, namely for example via screws discernible in FIG. 1 and indicated in dot-dash lines, but not described in greater detail.

(5) Further, FIG. 1 shows sections of two film cushions 6 side-by-side as examples, each showing a top film 8 and a bottom film 9. The top film 8 and the bottom film 9 form two exterior film layers, limiting the respective film cushion 6 and encasing a cavity 10 in a gas-tight fashion. Air is injected under pressure into the cavity 10 causing the top film 8 and the bottom film 9 to be respectively stretched and giving the film cushion 6 the desired form. Thereafter the top film 8 and the bottom film 9 form an air cushion between each other in the cavity 10. In the exemplary embodiment shown the film cushions 6 also show two intermediate films 11, 12 dividing the cavity 10 into three sections.

(6) The film cushions 6 are anchored at the fastening 4 via a circumferential edge section 6a. For this purpose, the ends of the films 8, 9, 11, and 12 are welded to a joint layer in the edge section 6a of the film cushion 6, forming an anchoring section 14. The anchoring section 14 is provided with a beading rope 16 along its edge, encompassing the layer jointly formed by the films 8, 9, 11, and 12.

(7) As further discernible from FIG. 1 the film cushions 6 are anchored at the fastening 4 such that their anchoring section 14 is clamped between the base profile 4a and the lid profile 4b and the beading rope 16 is arranged in a recess 18 embodied in the base profile 4a and closed by the lid profile 4b. For this purpose the lid profile 4b is pressed against the base profile 4a with the help of components not shown.

(8) The structural unit formed by at least one fastening 4 and at least one film cushion 6 can also be called a building cover element.

(9) While the base film 9 points to an interior space limited or encased by the film faade and/or roofing system discussed here, thus forming the interior of the film cushion, the top film 8 of the film cushions 10 contacts the exterior of the film faade and/or cover system. Accordingly the lid profile 4b also forms an exterior section of the fastening 4. Primarily, the film faade and/or roofing system discussed here is used to separate an interior space from an exterior environment and thus forming an outer cover, particularly a roof for a building. Alternatively it is generally also possible that the film system in question here is also used as a separating wall system to separate two building sections from each other or to separate two interior spaces within a building so that in such a case, in an arrangement shown for example in FIG. 1, the exterior formed by the top films 8 of the film cushions 10 and the lid profile 4b of the fastening 4 points to the other building section or to the other interior space and thus limit it.

(10) In practice it has shown that a thermal bridge can develop in the area of the anchoring of the film cushions 6 at the fastening 4 between the top film 8 and the bottom film 9 and thus between the exterior and the interior and/or between two sides of the film cushions 6. Here, the insulating effect of the cavity 10 filled with air in the film cushions 6 can be compromised or essentially even be lost entirely. This disadvantageous effect is particularly noticeable in large temperature differences between the two sides of the film cushions 6. Additionally, it is disadvantageous in this context when the lid profile 4b with its end sections extends beyond the base profile 4a in the direction to the film cushions 6, here contacting the exterior edge section 6a of the film cushions 6, and thus in this area comes to rest on the top film 8 of the film cushions 6; because in such a case the above-described effect would be even enhanced, last but not least because the lid profile 4b is made from metal.

(11) In order to prevent the development of a thermal bridge a thermally insulating element 20 is used, which is arranged at the exterior of the lid profile 4b of the fastening 4, as discernible in FIG. 1. In the exemplary embodiment shown the thermally insulating element 20 comprises an essentially plate-shaped solid body 22 with its material showing good thermally insulating features. For example hard foam can be used as the material. As further discernible from FIG. 1 the insulating solid body 22 rests with its bottom 22a pointing towards the fastening 4 in the area of its edge sections 22b adjacent to the film cushions 6 via an insulating sealing strip 24 on the exterior of the top film 8 in the edge section 6a of the film cushion 6. The insulating sealing strips 24 preferably comprise soft foam, embodied like foam rubber, and are fastened preferably at the bottom of the insulating solid body 22, particularly by way of adhesion. Alternatively in general it is also possible to waive the sealing strips 24 and to establish a direct contact between the top film 8 of the film cushions 6 and the insulating solid body 22 of the thermally insulating element 20.

(12) As further discernible from FIG. 1 the thermally insulating element 20 comprises an upper metallic profile 26 and a lower metallic profile 28, with these two metallic profiles 26, 28 quasi framing the insulating solid body 22 and preferably comprising aluminum and being fastened thereat by way of adhesion. As also discernible from FIG. 1 the upper metallic profile 26 essentially covers the top of the insulating solid body 22, while the lower metallic profile 28 exposes the bottom 22a of the insulating solid body 22 in the respective section, at which the sealing strip 24 is arranged and a thermal connection is established between the top film 8 of the film cushions 6 and the insulating solid body 22. Not only the lower metal profile 28 of the thermally insulating element 20 ends ahead of said section 22b but also both the lid profile 4b as well as the base profile 4a of the fastening 4, as further discernible from FIG. 1. Thus, the lid profile 4b does not project laterally beyond the fastening profile 4a, also ensuring here that the top film 8 in the edge section 6a of the film cushions 6 is left clear for a direct thermal connection via the sealing strip 24 to the insulating solid body 22 of the thermally insulating element 20. Accordingly, the thermally insulating element 20 projects with its two lateral edges beyond the fastening 4 and rests to this extent on the top film 8 of the respectively adjacent film cushion 6.

(13) The thermally insulating element 20 is preferably fastened at the lid profile 4b of the fastening 4. The components required here are not shown in FIG. 1. Usually, the thermally insulating element 20 is screwed to the fastening 4. In general other fastening options are possible, too.

(14) Finally it shall be mentioned that in the exemplary embodiment shown according to FIG. 1 a condensate channel 30 is arranged between the frame 2 and the fastening 4 in order to collect any condensate potentially developing in spite of the use of the above-described thermally insulating elements 20.