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Each of the insulating glass
elements weighs 950 kilograms.

vidual, non-plane surface builder, HEFI, opted for durability and gas-tight- Structures manufactures
sections according to the insulating glass elements ness is achieved than with the facade made of fibre
principle of discretisation, made of bent quality glass edge-mounted systems reinforced stainless steel,
which naturally may not from the Italian glass bend- using rigid spacers.” which is broken up by
reveal any measurable de- ing specialist SUNGLASS SHAPED WINDOWS thousands of custom-
®
viations at the connecting s.r.l. using Super Spacer FORM CALLIGRAPH- made insulating glass ele-
lines. Doubly kinked glass TriSeal™ Premium Plus as IC ORNAMENTS ments and provides it with
elements were ruled out spacer. In order to ensure its unique calligraphic or-
on grounds of cost, and that the facades withstand Many experts consider the namental form. According
the facade planners RFR the prevailing wind condi- ‘Museum of the Future’, to Shaun Killa, Feng Shui
Paris thus got the team of tions on the Eiffel Tower, currently under construc- was the inspiration behind
Evolute GmbH headed by the impacts of different tion in Dubai, to be the the design. In Feng Shui,
Professor Helmut Pott- climate loads on the edge most complex building in round forms symbolise
mann, optimisation of the seal and the panes were the world. After its open- the fertility of the earth,
calculation algorithms was simulated using the finite ing in 2019, it is expected the boundlessness of the
ultimately a ‘mosaic’ of element method, and the to become a home to inno- sky, and the emptiness
simply cylindrically bent, fit of the panes was in- vation and vision, ranging between them the un-
rectangular glass elements spected using a 3D scan- from the fields of science known, i.e. the future.
that could be produced ner following installation. to medicine through to ar- The Arabic characters re-
economically on state-of- “A flexible spacer adapts chitecture and design. The produce quotes from the
the-art glass bending ma- to any bend in the glass,” toroidal-shaped building ruler of Dubai and found-
chines. explains Christoph Rubel, with the striking opening er of the museum, Sheikh
technical expert at Edg- at its centre was designed Mohammed bin Rashid Al
DOUBLY BENT GLASS etech Europe GmbH. “It by Shaun Killa of Killa Maktoum.
FACADES ON reduces the stresses in Design. BuroHappold is “The three-dimensional
THE EIFFEL TOWER
the edge of the glass pane responsible for the engi- shape represents an un-
In order to meet the en- caused by temperature and neering, BAM Interna- precedented challenge in
ergy requirements, the barometric changes. As tional for the construction every sense,” explains Fer-
Strasbourg-based facade a result, a higher level of and AFFAN Innovative nando Morante, Technical

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