What is Cladding?
'''Cladding''' is placing one type of thing on top of another in a layer to make something like a skin. This can protect whatever is underneath the cladding from the weather, or it may [[aesthetic|make it look beautiful]].<ref>Fleming, et al., ''The Penguin Dictionary of Architecture'', p.76 (1980)</ref> For example, [[Rainscreen#Rainscreen cladding|Rainscreen]] cladding is one form of weather cladding. It protects things from rainwater and keeps it from getting too hot or cold. The cladding does not need to be [[waterproof]]. Some cladding only makes the rainwater or wind flow another way to control [[Surface runoff|run-off]]. For example, rainscreen cladding can make water on a rooftop flow away from some parts of the building so the water does not come inside. Cladding may also stop noise. Cladding<ref>{{Cite web|title=Cladding Company|url=https://www.claddingexperts.co.uk/|access-date=2020-10-03|website=www.claddingexperts.co.uk|archive-date=2020-09-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200927160745/https://www.claddingexperts.co.uk/|url-status=dead}}</ref> applied to windows is often referred to as [[window capping]] and is a specialized field.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Nik Vigener, PE and Mark A. Brown|title=Curtain Walls &#124; WBDG - Whole Building Design Guide|url=http://www.wbdg.org/design/env_fenestration_cw.php|website=WBDG|access-date=2017-06-15|archive-date=2016-11-07|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161107104112/http://www.wbdg.org/design/env_fenestration_cw.php|url-status=dead}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} [[Category:Architectural elements]]