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CASE STUDY

7,000 Shaped insulating glass
elements form the vision area and
spandrel area of the Museum of the
Future in Dubai with fibre-reinforced
stainless steel forming together an
18,000 square metres facade area.

Director of AFFAN. “Even terial, but also in terms of tres of Edgetech Super realisation of the ‘Mu-
®
if you’ve planned curtain the elaborate 3D construc- Spacer TriSeal TM Premi- seum of the Future’ right
walls for decades, you al- tion using CATIA, they um Plus spacer. Fernando from the start. Due to the
ways start from scratch borrowed a lot of ideas Morante is speaking from flexibility of the material,
when working on such a from the aviation sector. experience: “Since we we can go to the limits
project.” Commencing “In the pre-digital era you used Super Spacer for the of what is technologically
in the area of fire safety, would not have been able first time ten years ago for feasible. Using rigid spac-
there were no valid norms to plan this spectacular free-form insulating glass ers, perfectly and indi-
and standards, therefore building,” Fernando Mo- units in the Sheikh Zayed vidually shaped windows
AFFAN developed a spe- rante confidently claims. Mosque in Abu Dhabi, we with very complex shape
cial, ultra-lightweight Around 7,000 insulating have not had any problems would have been virtu-
composite for the outer glass elements, each of with the panes of glass ally impossible to create,”
skin, which passed all fire which is uniquely formed, whatsoever. Therefore, continues Fernando Mo-
safety tests with flying col- are embedded in the outer for me, Super Spacer was rante, “especially since
ours. Not only in terms of skin, along with approxi- the GO TO product to be the quality requirements
the high-tech building ma- mately 36,000 linear me- assigned a key role in the are extremely high – un-

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