Latino Cultural Center Dallas, TX The Latino Cultural Center utilizes a "rainscreen" system, which consists of an outer panel, a ventilated cavity and an inner skin. A rainscreen system is pressure equalized - the joints are open, allowing pressure equalization in driving rain conditions to be instantaneous. Pressure inside the cavity is equal to pressure outside, thus precipitation has no inclination to be driven into the cavities. The majority of the water is deflected off the outside face, and any penetrating water is disposed of through drainage. The clay tiles are set on an aluminum rail system with open joints. CDC provided shop drawings and engineering services for the clay tile on aluminum rail system. CDC Client: Dee Brown, Inc. Design Architect: Ricardo Legorreta Date of Completion: 2003 Reference Contacts: Ken Bownds, Senior Associate, CDC, Inc. Rick Troutte, Dee Brown, Inc. Photography : © 2005 Michael Lyon Back to Portfolio