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Abstract

A matrix frame system for carrying skin structure on the outside of the frame in a plural-story building. The system features plural stand-off mounts anchored to such a frame at regular, spaced, row-and-column locations located near connection nodes between columns and beams in the frame. Each mount includes an outwardly looking, mount-defining face which occupies an upright matrix support plane, which plane is spaced outwardly of, and at a defined angle to, the adjacent outside 'plane' of the associated building frame. Also included in the system are plural, generally planar (including 'angular planar') matrix frame panels each having plural perimetral corners disposed adjacent different mount-defining faces in a different stand-off mounts, with pluralities of such corners of different and adjacent panels meeting at, and disposed adjacent, different, single, common mount-defining faces in different single stand-off mounts. Each frame panel has at least one pair of perimetral corners attached respectively to two different ones of the mount-defining faces. The concept of planarity for the frame panels, as used herein, applies not only to uni-planar panels, but also to angularly configured (angular planar) panels, such as corner panels, which are formed from a pair of individually planar sections.

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