Inventive Aluminum Exteriors

From rain screens to louvers, these innovative metallic homes get creative with aluminum.

Composed of 220 aluminum "light shelves," the solar reflector screen is the focal point of the front façade.

Located on a sloped wooded site, the 7,500-square-foot Bridge House encompasses two stories and a finished basement.

Nearly 200 anodized aluminum fins—each one uniquely shaped—serve as a screen that shields the concrete walls from the...

The second-story addition has a view of the Santa Monica Bay.

When the Casali family gave Michael Krus and Prishram Jain of TACT Architecture free rein to work with unconventional...