Who we are

CORTEX Façade Engineering Group is a façade engineering company established in 2019, with its head office and international base in Proshyan, Armenia, just outside Yerevan, and an office in Tehran, Iran. It designs, engineers, fabricates and installs building envelopes — all four stages inside one company — and produces its own aluminium profiles, so sections are developed for the project rather than selected from a catalogue.

Fifteen documented systems in four families. Free-form and long-span structures (free-form structures, free-form skylights, free-form villas and resort accommodation, space structures). Cable systems (cable structures, cable-supported curtain wall, cable-supported skylight, cable net structures). Ventilated dry façades (ceramic, stone, aluminium composite, HPL, perforated metal and aluminium louvre). And glazed façades, covering the curtain wall in its stick, unitised, semi-unitised, structurally glazed and point-fixed forms.

Five stages: design, engineering, shop drawing, fabrication and installation. Engineering covers form finding, finite element modelling of frames, nets, nodes and connections, computational fluid dynamics for wind pressure across doubly curved surfaces, energy calculation for thermal transmittance and condensation risk, full 3D detail design, and full-scale mock-up testing where the risk or the geometry justifies it.

A curtain wall is a non-loadbearing glazed envelope hung from the building frame, carrying its own weight and wind load back to the slab edges. It is the most established façade system and the one with the most variants. The choice between stick, unitised and structurally glazed is made on programme, site access and crane availability as much as on appearance: unitised work moves labour off the scaffold and into the factory, while stick work absorbs site tolerance more forgivingly.

A panel held clear of the wall on a mechanical substructure, with a drained and ventilated cavity behind it. The rainscreen is not a waterproof layer — it is a screen that takes the weather, and the airtight, insulated line is the wall behind it rather than the panel in front. The build-up outwards is structural wall, continuous insulation, cavity, aluminium substructure, then panel. CORTEX supplies six panel materials on this one principle: ceramic, stone, aluminium composite, HPL, perforated metal and aluminium louvre.

Thirteen reference projects across Iran, Iraq, Austria and Armenia, including the Ava Center shopping mall, the DOMAINE shopping centre in Yerevan, the Fanap campus complex, the Middle East Plant Research Center, Yas Shopping Mall, Noor Hospital, Sobhan Biotech, Arian Motor Factory and a residential building on Arndtstrasse. Two hold Iran's national award for Best Special Steel Structure: the Ava Center skylight in 2020 and the Fanap cable-support skylight in 2022.

The head office and international base is at HOMPLEX HYPER MALL, Gevorg Chaushi St., 1/47 Building, Unit C7, Proshyan 2413, Armenia. The Tehran office is at Unit 402, No. 12, Second East, Velenjak Street, Tehran, Iran. CORTEX serves Iran, Iraq, the Caucasus, the Gulf and Europe, and a commercial division handles trade and customs clearance so a project in another country does not stall at a border.

By email at info@cortexfacade.com, on WhatsApp at +98 912 0 926 826, +98 912 071 7419 or +374 77 071351, or through the enquiry form at cortexfacade.com/contact/. Send the geometry that is causing the argument and CORTEX will answer with how it gets built, what it weighs and what it costs, before anyone commits to a system.