Systems and methods for providing a window wall with flush slab edge covers
View Patent ↗Certain embodiments provide systems and methods for providing a window wall with flush slab edge covers. A window wall system can include a sill receptor configured to fixably attach to a top surface of a slab. The window wall system may include a head receptor configured to fixably attach to an underside surface of the slab. The window wall system can include a window wall panel including panel infill and a panel sill configured to detachably couple to the sill receptor. The window wall system may include a slab edge cover including cover infill. The slab edge cover can be configured to detachably couple to the window wall panel and the head receptor. In various embodiments, an exterior surface of the panel infill and an exterior surface of the cover infill are configured to flushly align when the slab edge cover is detachably coupled to the window wall panel.
1. A window wall system comprising:
a sill receptor configured to fixably attach to a top surface of a slab;
a head receptor configured to fixably attach to an underside surface of the slab;
a window wall panel comprising:
panel infill, and
a panel sill configured to detachably couple to the sill receptor; and
at least one slab edge cover comprising cover infill, the at least one slab edge cover configured to detachably couple to the sill receptor and the head receptor,
wherein an exterior surface of the panel infill and an exterior surface of the cover infill are configured to flushly align when the window wall panel is detachably coupled to the sill receptor and the at least one slab edge cover is detachably coupled to the sill receptor and the head receptor.
2. The window wall system according to claim 1 , wherein each of the window wall panel and the at least one slab edge cover is a four-sided structurally glazed system.
3. The window wall system according to claim 1 , wherein the panel infill is insulated vision glass.
4. The window wall system according to claim 1 , wherein the cover infill is spandrel glass.
5. The window wall system according to claim 1 , wherein the sill receptor comprises an upward projection, and wherein the panel sill is configured to detachably couple to the sill receptor by dead loading on the upward projection.
6. The window wall system according to claim 1 , wherein the at least one slab edge cover comprises a plurality of slab edge covers combined in a slab edge cover frame.
7. The window wall system according to claim 6 , comprising an intermediate frame vertical between each of the plurality of slab edge covers combined in the slab edge cover frame.
8. The window wall system according to claim 1 , wherein the at least one slab edge cover comprises at least one panel clip, and the head receptor comprises at least one clip connection, the at least one panel clip configured to detachably couple to the at least one clip connection to detachably couple the at least one slab edge cover to the head receptor.
9. The window wall system according to claim 1 , comprising an attachment mechanism operable to fixably attach to the sill receptor to the top surface of the slab, wherein when the panel sill is detachably coupled to the sill receptor and the sill receptor is fixably attached to the top surface of the slab by the attachment mechanism:
the panel sill extends a first horizontal distance from a nearest vertical edge of the slab,
the attachment mechanism is attached at a second horizontal distance from the nearest vertical edge of the slab, and
the second horizontal distance is greater than the first horizontal distance.