Design Assist for Buildable Perforated Façade Systems
Design Assist for Buildable Perforated Façade Systems

Design Assist Fabrication Installation
At Valmont Facades, design assist is more than support—it’s a creative and technical partnership through Perforate™ Studio. Architectural ideas often push the limits of geometry, scale, and performance. Our role is to bridge that ambition with a coordinated, constructible reality—without compromising design intent.
Starting With The Model

Our role is to bridge ambition with reality—without compromising design intent. Starting with your Revit model, we develop a coordinated system that is fully engineered, constructible, and manufacturable. Our role is to bridge ambition with reality—without compromising design intent. Starting with your Revit model, we develop a coordinated system that is fully engineered, constructible, and manufacturable.

Rationalized panel layouts
Panelization developed around the geometry and intent of the design.
Engineered attachment strategies
Connections and support systems developed for the realities of the building.
Optimized perforation patterns
Patterns refined for visual intent, transparency, privacy, and performance.
Fully coordinated façade systems
A coordinated system developed from design intent through constructability.

Starting from your Revit model, we develop a façade system that is engineered, constructible, and ready for fabrication.

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A DIGITAL WORKFLOW

Perforate™ Studio works inside your project’s digital ecosystem—extending the Revit model through a coordinated workflow that connects design intent to constructability before work reaches the field. Perforate™ Studio works inside your project’s digital ecosystem—extending the Revit model through a coordinated workflow that connects design intent to constructability before work reaches the field.

Digital Workflow

Digital workflow: how Perforate™ Studio works

Start with Your Model

Develop the System

Refine the Perforation

Coordinate + Validate

Deliver a Buildable System

Your Revit model provides the foundation for our design-assist process.

We develop panel layouts, refine geometry, and establish the relationships between the façade, structure, and building.

Perforation is developed as an integral part of the design—balancing visual expression, transparency, privacy, and performance.

Using Revit, Navisworks, 3D constructability validation, and installation logic modeling, we identify conflicts and refine the system before it reaches the field.

The result is a coordinated façade system ready to move forward into fabrication and construction.

This digital workflow aligns the architect, engineer, contractor, and fabricator in the model—before work ever reaches the field.

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Deliverables

What you receive from Perforate™ Studio: signed engineering, system documentation, shop-ready models, and fabrication-ready specifications—so design intent survives into production and the field. What you receive from Perforate™ Studio: signed engineering, system documentation, shop-ready models, and fabrication-ready specifications—so design intent survives into production and the field.

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Signed + Sealed
Engineering
Engineered as a delegated design solution—signed and sealed for delivery.
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System Calculations
+ Documentation
Calculations and documentation that connect design intent to constructability.
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Shop-Ready Models
+ Drawings
Models and drawings prepared for fabrication without reinterpretation.
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Fabrication Ready
Specifications
Specifications refined for manufacturing efficiency, repeatability, and install.
  • 1
    Signed + Sealed
    Engineering
    Engineered as a delegated design solution—signed and sealed for delivery.
  • 2
    System Calculations +
    Documentation
    Calculations and documentation that connect design intent to constructability.
  • 3
    Shop-Ready Models +
    Drawings
    Models and drawings prepared for fabrication without reinterpretation.
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    Fabrication Ready
    Specifications
    Specifications refined for manufacturing efficiency, repeatability, and install.
  • PERFORATION
    Perforation is not applied. It is designed. Perforation can shape the way a façade is seen, experienced, and understood. Perforation is not applied. It is designed. Perforation can shape the way a façade is seen, experienced, and understood.

    • Visual Intent Visual Intent

      Precise architectural expression at multiple scales. Precise architectural expression at multiple scales.

    • Transparency + Privacy Transparency + Privacy

      Controlled openness and visual separation. Controlled openness and visual separation.

    • Performance Performance

      Open-area ratios developed around project requirements. Open-area ratios developed around project requirements.

    • Light & Shadow Light & Shadow

      Depth and changing expression throughout the day. Depth and changing expression throughout the day.

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Clarity, Confidence, Control
Clarity, Confidence, Control

What early design integration delivers for your project. What early design integration delivers for your project.

  • Clarity Clarity

    Fully coordinated models communicate how the façade will be built. Fully coordinated models communicate how the façade will be built.

  • Confidence Confidence

    Engineered systems backed by decades of façade expertise. Engineered systems backed by decades of façade expertise.

  • Control Control

    Predictable costs, timelines, and outcomes through early design integration. Predictable costs, timelines, and outcomes through early design integration.

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A True Collaboration
A True Collaboration

We don’t just respond to drawings—we collaborate in shaping them. From early design development through construction, Valmont works as an extension of your team—helping solve challenges, refine details, and elevate outcomes. We don’t just respond to drawings—we collaborate in shaping them. From early design development through construction, Valmont works as an extension of your team—helping solve challenges, refine details, and elevate outcomes.

Extension of Team
Work as an extension of your team from design development through construction.
Solve & Refine
Help solve challenges, refine details, and keep intent aligned with what’s buildable.
Developed Together
Because the best façades aren’t just designed. They’re developed together.

The Valmont Process The Valmont Process

Design assist, fabrication & engineering, and installation—the full Valmont journey that takes architectural intent all the way to the finished façade. Start your project

Design Assist
Design assist, system development, and coordination that carry architectural intent through to clear, constructible design delivery.
Fabrication & Engineering
Transforming coordinated design into engineered, manufacturable façade systems ready for precise shop production.
Field Installation
Bringing the engineered façade system from the shop to the building with coordinated field installation.
Design Assist
Design assist, system development, and coordination that carry architectural intent through to clear, constructible design delivery.
Fabrication & Engineering
Transforming coordinated design into engineered, manufacturable façade systems ready for precise shop production.
Field Installation
Bringing the engineered façade system from the shop to the building with coordinated field installation.
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DESIGN WITHOUT LIMITS

Bring us your model. We'll bring it to life.
Bring us your model.
We'll bring it to life.

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