The building of the Danish oceanarium The Blue Planet, which opened its doors to visitors in March this year, attracts attention with its original architecture and bizarre curves of the facades. The difficult task of protecting the building from cold, moisture and unwanted noise was solved, among other things, thanks to the use of durable and reliable ROCKWOOL thermal insulation.
The Oceanarium is housed in a 9,000 m2 building specially designed for this purpose by the Danish architectural bureau 3XN.
The walls of the oceanirium are located at an angle of less than 80 ° and the protection of the building from the harmful effects of precipitation has become an important problem: the choice of materials for facades, smoothly turning into flat roofs, and the external insulation system of the object. Also, the aquarium is located in the immediate vicinity of the Copenhagen airport, and one of the construction tasks was to choose an acoustic solution that would protect aquatic inhabitants from extraneous noise.
The “scales” of curved facades and sloping roofs are made of metal panels using the rebate technique on the structure - a ventilated facade system, and the use of rigid ROCKWOOL thermal insulation boards with a thickness of 200 mm in the system made it possible to solve a number of problems.
The properties of facade and roof thermal insulation (hydrophobization) of ROCKWOOL make it possible to withstand the effects of damp winds and temperature drops on the Baltic Sea coast without losing useful qualities. Due to the high density of rigid slabs, sufficient mass is achieved to provide additional sound insulation, and the fire-safe properties of stone wool, from which both materials are made, provide reliable protection of the building facades from fire.
The grand opening ceremony was attended by distinguished guests - Her Majesty Queen Margrethe II of Denmark and His Royal Highness Prince Consort Henrik.
The Blue Planet has become the largest oceanarium in Northern Europe. 53 aquariums with a total volume of over 7 million liters represent over 450 species of fish and marine mammals. The new oceanarium, organically blended into the natural landscape, will delight more than one generation of viewers with the beauty of the underwater world, and durable and environmentally friendly materials will ensure its safety for many years.
Also in 2012, in Vladivostok, Russia, the Primorsky Oceanarium Scientific and Educational Complex of the Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences was built, where ROCKWOOL VENTI BATTS hydrophobic slabs were used to insulate the facades, providing reliable protection of the building from heat loss during the entire period of operation.
Read more on Archi.ru about the implementation of engineering and design solutions with Rockwool.
