Notes on aluminum foam

Fine, medium and coarse cell aluminum foam panels side by side

Aluminum foam in furniture and objects: the pan...

At the scale of a table, a door or a lamp, an aluminum foam panel stops being a surface and becomes the object. Stiff enough to be a top, light...

Aluminum foam in furniture and objects: the pan...

At the scale of a table, a door or a lamp, an aluminum foam panel stops being a surface and becomes the object. Stiff enough to be a top, light...

Standard Sample Kit: aluminum foam panel, angled view

Aluminum foam noise barriers: one panel that ab...

Beside a road or rail line, a barrier panel has to absorb sound, stand in the weather for decades and never need paint. Aluminum foam has been doing that job...

Aluminum foam noise barriers: one panel that ab...

Beside a road or rail line, a barrier panel has to absorb sound, stand in the weather for decades and never need paint. Aluminum foam has been doing that job...

Designer Kit opened: three aluminum foam panels in fine, medium and coarse cell grades

Aluminum foam interior walls: a metal surface y...

At arm's length a wall surface has to survive contact and go in without a metal shop. Aluminum foam cuts and fixes with ordinary tools and has no skin to...

Aluminum foam interior walls: a metal surface y...

At arm's length a wall surface has to survive contact and go in without a metal shop. Aluminum foam cuts and fixes with ordinary tools and has no skin to...

Close-up of the sawn edge of an aluminum foam panel

Aluminum foam ceilings: light enough to hang, a...

Overhead, weight counts twice. Aluminum foam gives a ceiling a metal surface light enough for ordinary hangers, with a pore field that breaks up flat reflection.

Aluminum foam ceilings: light enough to hang, a...

Overhead, weight counts twice. Aluminum foam gives a ceiling a metal surface light enough for ordinary hangers, with a pore field that breaks up flat reflection.

Aluminum foam panel seen from above

Aluminum foam facades: why a cellular metal bel...

Outside, a cladding panel has to take weather and fire codes for decades. Aluminum foam is metal all the way through: nothing to peel, nothing that can burn.

Aluminum foam facades: why a cellular metal bel...

Outside, a cladding panel has to take weather and fire codes for decades. Aluminum foam is metal all the way through: nothing to peel, nothing that can burn.

Fine, medium and coarse cell aluminum foam panels side by side

What is aluminum foam? A short guide for archit...

Aluminum foam is solid aluminum with a cellular structure, made by foaming the molten metal. Here is what that means for a panel you can hold, cut and specify.

What is aluminum foam? A short guide for archit...

Aluminum foam is solid aluminum with a cellular structure, made by foaming the molten metal. Here is what that means for a panel you can hold, cut and specify.