Why Weathering Steel for Landscape Design

With the increase in design applications and acceptance, weathering steel has been commonly found in urban open space design cases, and landscape designers also have a richer creative space through the use of weathering steel as a material.

Weathering steel,also called atmospheric corrosion-resistant steel, is a low alloy steel series between ordinary steel and stainless steel. In the natural climate, weathering steel through the addition of niobium, molybdenum, phosphorus, titanium and other weathering elements, so that the steel material in the rust layer and the substrate between the formation of a layer of 50 ~ 100 μm thick dense and good adhesion with the base metal oxide layer. This layer of dense oxide film, preventing atmospheric oxygen and water to the steel matrix infiltration, slowing down the rust to the deep development of steel materials, thereby greatly improving the atmospheric corrosion resistance of steel materials.

Weathering steel surface is a layer of rust-red material, is an attractive building facade material, the Australian Pavilion at the 2010 World Expo used weathering steel as the facade material, and the perfect combination of preserved wood and stone, presenting a rich design context.

Weathering steel plate is relatively easy to mold into richly varied shapes and maintains excellent integrity, which is difficult to achieve with wood, stone, and concrete. It can be folded or twisted according to the terrain and the surrounding structure, and this strong form shaping ability creates clean contemporary several shapes, which is one of the reasons why weathering steel is used as a landscape design material.

Rusted steel will change with time, its color by the environment, climate impact changes, placed for a long time after the easy from bright reddish-brown into a dull dark blue-gray, with the aging of time, so that full of beauty of the unique color and texture of the weathering steel can bring out the charm of the art of originality, reflecting the concept of sustainable design.

Rusted steel plate will change over time, its color by the environment, climate change, placed after a long time is easy to change from bright reddish-brown into a dull dark blue-gray, with the aging of time, so that full of beauty of the unique color and texture of the weathering steel can present an original artistic charm, reflecting the concept of sustainable design.