Free-form & long-span
Free-form Structures
Doubly curved steel and glass
Landmark roofs and envelopes
Façade Engineering
Built to be seen
Every façade we take on begins as a drawing somebody was told could not be built. Free-form skylights. Cable nets spanning an atrium without a mullion in sight. Louvre fields that had to brace a building against seismic movement and still let the daylight through.
Selected works
Middle East Plant Research Center — two intersecting shells, Tehran
01 — The company
We work as engineers first — sitting with the architect while the geometry is still negotiable, and coming back with the answer that keeps the idea intact.
CORTEX Façade Engineering Group designs, engineers, fabricates and installs building envelopes. One company covers all four stages, which is the reason our details survive the journey from model to site rather than being redrawn by whoever inherits them.
Aluminum profile production sits behind the work. Sections are developed for the project instead of chosen from a catalogue, and that freedom is what makes complex geometry affordable rather than merely possible.
- 15 Documented systems
- 12 Reference projects
- 2 National awards
- 5 Markets served
02 — Capability
Fifteen systems, four families
Every system is documented the same way: what it is, where it works, what has to be resolved at design stage, and a specification panel referenced to the governing European standards.
03 — Selected works
Projects that had to be engineered, not specified
Thirteen projects across Iran, Iraq, Austria and Armenia — skylights, cable nets, unitised walls and long-span steel. Two hold Iran's national award for special steel structures.
04 — Documentation
Two catalogues,
free to download
Volume 01 — Selected Works documents the twelve delivered projects with client, contractor, architect and systems. Volume 02 — Façade Systems carries the fifteen system specifications, written for architects specifying and contractors pricing.
Go to catalogs
05 — Why CORTEX
One team, four stages
Design, engineering, fabrication and installation sit inside one company. Nothing is lost in a handover, and no one is left arguing about whose drawing was wrong.
- 01 Design
- 02 Engineering
- 03 Shop drawing
- 04 Fabrication
- 05 Installation
06 — Start here
Send us the geometry that is causing the argument
We will tell you how it gets built, what it weighs, and what it costs — before anyone commits to a system.