At the beginning of the 21st century, industrial zones are no longer associated with black smoke from chimneys: modern technologies and care for the environment change factories for the better, especially since they often turn out to be a noticeable part of the landscape. The time of a modernist clear zoning - a business center, residential areas, factory areas - is becoming a thing of the past, and an industrial park may well turn out to be a neighbor of a university or a residential area. In this case, not only environmental cleanliness is significant, but also the visual attractiveness of the industrial structure, so that the people living and working nearby, traveling along the nearby highway, travelers look at it with interest, and not with irritation. Its visual image is no less important to the owner - the image of the company depends on the exterior of the object, it also affects the mood of employees, determining the effectiveness of their work.
A noticeable, interesting appearance of the building - including the "industrial" - can be achieved using high-quality modern materials and technical solutions. One of these options is the Kalzip FC facade system. This aluminum ventilated curtain wall system is flexible and flexible, making it ideal for any project, whether new or renovating an existing building. For a specific design, you can choose a variety of colors and sizes of panels, and the freedom of the architect is increased by an arbitrary direction of installation. Its streamlined process makes façade creation easier and more environmentally friendly.
If necessary, you can postpone the installation of individual panels until the completion of the improvement of the adjacent territory (for example, in the places of passage of construction equipment), it is just as easy to replace one panel with another - without large-scale dismantling. The alignment of the panels is done by adjusting the substructure, which greatly simplifies the process; If necessary, already mounted panels can be additionally adjusted through the mounting joints.
Kalzip FC facades are durable and reliably protect the interior of the building from temperature changes and other vagaries of the climate. At the same time, their secondary processing is possible, which is fully consistent with the principles of sustainable development.
Considering the quality and wide opportunities that Kalzip FC facade systems provide to the customer and designers, it is not surprising that they were chosen for their central logistics center for 500 employees by Gries Deco, the owner of the Depot chain of stores, a leading seller of interior decoration items and small-sized furniture in Germany., Austria and Switzerland.
The project of the complex in the Bavarian town of Niedernberg was entrusted to a bureau from Darmstadt based on the results of the competition
netzwerkarchitekten. Instead of the usual solution - one large building, where all the necessary functions are collected - the architects proposed the concept of a campus of two buildings, premises for order picking (17,502 storage places) and a high-rack warehouse (160 x 90 x 40 m, 110 thousand storage places), with a noise barrier connecting them, also serving as a rain-protected passage between the two buildings. Improvement was created around.
However, the main thing in the project was the solution of the facades of both buildings - under the motto “Big comes from the small” proposed by netzwerkarchitekten: the different-sized panels of the Kalzip FC facade system in gray and white colors - in combination with stainless steel mirror panels and glazed openings in the complete building - create the image of stacks boxes, which ultimately form the total volume of the warehouse. In addition, the use of panels of different colors and sizes gives the buildings a human scale, makes their large size not so noticeable and "aggressive".
The expression in the architecture of the logistics center of its function (exactly such boxes are stored inside, as "depicted" on the facade) really liked the customer, the Gries Deco company, who also saw in the motto of the authors of the project a reflection of his active policy of expanding the business, which he adheres to in recent years …
The elegant colors and textures of Kalzip FC facades with striking decorative seams blend in perfectly with the surroundings, demonstrating an example of a truly modern utilitarian building. In addition, as conceived by netzwerkarchitekten, the surfaces of steel and glass are designed to reflect the changes around the building - the changing seasons, weather or time of day.
However, not only FC facades, but also other types of Kalzip coatings are excellent for industrial - along with any other - projects. For example, it was the Kalzip system with a standing seam on the roof and facades that defined the appearance of the newest incineration plant in Krakow, allowing the original plan of the designers to come true - which ultimately led to the nomination of this building for the main architectural award of the European Union, the Mies van der Rohe Prize.
The plant opened in 2015 -
Eco-Incinerator is the second such facility in Poland, although there are more than 500 such facilities in the EU as a whole. They incinerate waste unsuitable for recycling, while generating electricity and heat for heating residential areas, do not pollute the environment and perform an educational function: such projects include the possibility of educational excursions about the principles of the plant and sustainable development in general. Considering the importance of such a structure, a competition was held for its architectural design, which was won by a team from the workshops Teller Architekci, Łapiński Architekci and Manufaktura Nr1, which was then joined by Prochem S. A.
The authors of the project wanted to avoid the "typical" and unattractive appearance typical for most industrial buildings, including preserving the surrounding natural landscape. Due to the very large dimensions of the building (300 x 80 x 40 m, the height of the pipe is 70 m, the total area is about 33 thousand m2, the volume is 400 thousand m3) and the technical requirements of the waste incineration process, it was impossible to hide it in the relief. The alternative has become an attractive and at the same time harmonious look with the surroundings: the elongated volume of the plant changes height and profile depending on the functional areas contained in one or another part of it, and is covered with multi-colored transverse stripes - this is a reference to the “patchwork” of the surrounding fields and patterns in Polish national costume.
The building is faced with Kalzip panels up to 60 meters long, all of them have a radius, convex and concave sheets (konkav-konvex). The profiling of Kalzip sheets was carried out at the construction site using mobile equipment that was delivered to the site. Overall, Kalzip panels in red and green cover an area of 36,400 m2 at the Krakow plant. Thanks to its spectacular appearance, this plant, where 220 thousand tons of waste is burned per year, has become a real landmark of the city; its appeal also serves a social and educational function, not alienating the observer, but generating interest - which is then transferred from Kalzip's bright façades to green energy principles.
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