

They often featured surface relief with architectural elements from the relevant period or style. In earlier times, façades were characterised by window arrangements and axes. Sunscreens: folding elements made of perforated aluminium, electrically driven Structural work: brick walls reinforced concrete floors steel columns filled with concrete along the facadeįacades: aluminium-glass facade with vorgelagerten Putzstegen respectively facade of upgraded insulation, plastered in white Office building and showroom for representative functions and product presentation for a metal company General contractor: Mandlbauer GmbH, 8344 Bad Gleichenb.įacade: Kiefer Metallbau GmbH, 8344 Bad Gleichenbergĭesign & documentation: Autumn 2005 - Summer 2006 Mechanical services: Planungsbüro Greile, 9330 Althofen These façades change continuously each day, each hour shows a new “face” - the façade is turning into a dynamic sculpture.Architect: Ernst Giselbrecht + Partner ZT GmbH

Thus it is possible to realise these new transparent façades and yet still maintain a cosy at-mosphere in the rooms. Of course they can also be controlled by optimising programs if users are not present in the rooms behind. At the same time, individual requirements escalate and need to be reconciled with the desire for comfort.įor this reason we have been working for some time with dynamic façades that can be adapted individually to changing conditions and needs. Today it is possible that the complete exterior façade is transparent, and this very transparency in-dicates a modern character. With the introduction of window strips, these hierarchies were abandoned. how many for a director or high-ranking counsellor and how many for a mere civil servant. Not long ago office buildings had a clear structure and the number of axes was prede-termined - e.g. The structure of the façade also determined the ground plan the greater the number of window axes in a room, the more important the function of the user. Architect: Ernst Giselbrecht + Partner ZT GmbH
