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Designing a building, a home or a room involves compromise. It is a compromise between the home owner for a livable, reasonably priced fashionable home and the designer's vision for the client's home, between the beauty of a material and that of its strength. There is never really a single construction material that satisfies all aesthetic, structural and cost consideration but there are materials that come close.
Aluminium is one material that can almost satisfy aesthetic, structural and cost considerations of owners, builders and designers. While not as strong as iron or steel, which is the common reason for its rejection as structural member or support, aluminium can be shaped in a way that surpasses its limitation as a structural component.
Some of the qualities of aluminium that endears it to home designers and builders are its resistance to corrosion and low density. It is easily worked and formed into various shapes, and it has the ability to conduct heat and electricity.
Aluminium is best known for its aesthetic use in the home or buildings. It is commonly the material of choice in cladding or imbuing a building with a perceived strength because its luster and sheen hardly diminishes over time even as it is exposed to the worst of environmental conditions in cities.
Aluminium bronze is the choice of designers for homes near bodies of salt water. The alloy is a mixture of aluminium and copper, both metals known for their ability to resist corrosion. For homes that require some decorative part to be in contact with saltwater, aluminium bronze is the best material to use not only because it is noncorrosive but also because panels or components made from it can resist colonization by marine bivalves and mollusks.
Aluminium pipes have long been used to give an industrial' look to any structure or room. It is their light weight as well as their ability to hold the pressures often used in households that make them indispensible as a decorative option.
And in keeping up with the industrial look', has there been anything to rival perforated aluminium panels? Whether as a flooring material or a wall panel, nothing rivals it in terms of strength, beauty and cost-effectiveness.
