The present invention relates to an exterior-wall structure which is formed by arranging and fixing exterior panels (facing panels) having a groove.
In order to form an exterior wall of a house, a method in which exterior panels made of a ceramic material, such as cement, are arranged and fixed has been widely used. On a surface of such an exterior panel, a surface pattern is formed to look like many materials, such as a stone, a brick, a tile, and so on. And, in order to form an outward appearance of a house according to the surface pattern of the exterior panel, the exterior panels having the same surface pattern of one kind are arranged on the wall, or the exterior panels having different surface patterns of two or more kinds are combined and arranged on the wall. For example, by using an exterior panel having a concave groove running an entire length of the panel in the longitudinal direction of the exterior panel, it is possible to form an exterior-wall surface in which concave grooves are disposed in a stripe state (see, Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 6-264586).
However, when the exterior panels having the same surface pattern of one kind are arranged on the wall, the same surface pattern is repeated on the whole wall surface, whereby the outward appearance of the exterior wall becomes monotonous. And, when the exterior panels having different surface patterns of two or more kinds are combined and arranged on the wall, it is difficult to give sensation of unity of the outward appearance in the whole exterior wall, and it is likely to become a messy outward appearance.
In view of the above problem, the object of the present invention is to provide an exterior-wall structure capable of forming a wall surface which has a varied outward appearance while keeping sensation of unity of the whole exterior wall.
The exterior-wall structure of the present invention comprises two or more kinds of exterior panels. The two or more kinds of exterior panels have the same outline shape, the same dimensions, and the same surface texture, and the two or more kinds of exterior panels have respectively a different number, including zero, of grooves on each surface. Each groove runs an entire length of each exterior panel continuously in a longitudinal direction of the exterior panel. The two or more kinds of exterior panels are arranged side by side to form an exterior-wall surface.
Because the exterior panels of the present invention has the same outward appearance except the grooves, it is possible to form an outward appearance which is based on the grooves and has sensation of unity on a whole area of the exterior-wall surface by arranging the two or more kinds of exterior panels. Furthermore, because the two or more kinds of exterior panels having respectively a different number of the grooves are combined, the arrangement of the grooves is less likely to become monotonous repetition, and it is possible to form a wall surface which has a varied outward appearance.
Preferably, the two or more kinds of exterior panels have the same surface color.
In this case, it is possible to form an outward appearance having sensation of unity on a whole area of the exterior-wall surface in terms of color.
Preferably, each groove is formed at a position which divides the exterior panel at even intervals in a direction perpendicular to a longitudinal direction of the exterior panel.
In this case, the arrangement of the grooves does not become irregular and messy, and it becomes easy to form an outward appearance with sensation of unity.
Preferably, the grooves are formed so that, when two exterior panels having a different number of the grooves are connected to each other in a longitudinal direction of the exterior panel, all the grooves of one exterior panel having a lower number of the grooves are communicated with the grooves of the other exterior panel having a larger number of the grooves.
In this case, it is possible to make the grooves of the exterior panels having a different number of the grooves communicate with each other as much as possible, whereby it is possible to connect the exterior panels so that they become an outward appearance having continuity. Therefore, it becomes easy to form an outward appearance which is natural and has sensation of unity on the whole surface of the exterior-wall surface.
The two or more kinds of exterior panels may have intersecting grooves which run at predetermined angles with respect to the grooves on their surfaces.
In this case, it is possible to form the exterior-wall surface having a varied outward appearance by the intersecting grooves.
Hereinafter, the present invention will be described in more detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.
An exterior panel 2 is manufactured from a ceramic series material, such as cement, a metallic series material, such as a steel plate, or a plastic series material, such as polyvinyl chloride, and is formed into a horizontally-long rectangular shape in this embodiment. Although two or more kinds of the exterior panel 2 are prepared, each kind of the exterior panels 2 is formed to have the same outline shape, the same dimensions, and the same surface texture. Here, the term “to have the same surface texture” means to have the same surface material, the same minute concavity and convexity, the same hand feeling, and so on. That is, each kind of the exterior panels 2 is formed to have the same outward appearance except a concave groove 1 (a recessed groove 1). The above two or more kinds of the exterior panels 2 may be painted the same color to have the same surface color.
In the exterior panels 2, some exterior panels 2 do not have the concave groove 1 on their surfaces, and others have a different number of the concave grooves 1 on the surface. That is, the exterior panels 2 have a different number, including zero, of the concave grooves 1 on the surface. Each concave groove 1 is formed into a straight line form, and runs an entire length of each exterior panels 2 parallel to a longitudinal edge of the exterior panel 2. In each exterior panel 2, the concave grooves 1 are formed to have the same width, and the same depth.
In a first embodiment of
In each exterior panel 2 having the concave groove 1, the concave groove 1 is formed at a position which divides the exterior panel 2 (except the step-like groove 3) at even intervals in a direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the exterior panel 2. For example, when the exterior panel 2 has one concave groove 1 like the exterior panel 2b, the concave groove 1 is formed at a position which divides the exterior panel 2 into two equal parts in the direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the exterior panel 2, and when the exterior panel 2 has three concave grooves 1 like the exterior panel 2c, the concave grooves 1 are formed at positions which divide the exterior panel 2 into four equal parts in the direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the exterior panel 2, and when the exterior panel 2 has n (where n is an integer number) concave grooves 1, the concave grooves 1 are formed at positions which divide the exterior panel 2 into (n+1) equal parts in the direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the exterior panel 2.
The exterior panels 2 formed as above are arranged side by side and connected to each other to form an exterior wall of a house.
In a case where the three kinds of exterior panels 2a, 2b, and 2c of
As shown in
Especially, because the concave groove 1 can give a designing change by a shading effect according to a relation between the sunlight and the seeing position, it is possible to increase the variation of the outward appearance of the wall surface. For example, in
In a case where the concave grooves 1 are formed at positions which divide the exterior panel 2 at even intervals in the direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the exterior panel 2 as mentioned above, when the exterior panel 2b having one concave groove 1 and the exterior panel 2c having three concave grooves 1 are connected to each other in the longitudinal direction, it is possible to make the concave grooves 1 of each exterior panel 2 communicate with each other as much as possible. However, if it is not possible to make the concave grooves of each exterior panel 2 communicate with each other, the concave grooves 1 may be formed at positions other than the positions which divide the exterior panel 2 at even intervals in the direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the exterior panel 2.
In this embodiment, for example, as shown in
In this embodiment, as shown in
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