Metal slate facade
All over facade system in long- or short sized slates, made from different materials.
References:
Addition on the “Versuchshalle für Fördertechnik und Logistik der Universität Stuttgart”
Design of metal roof and slate roof made from Tecu Oxid®.
For this property we received the 2008 European Architecture Award for metal roofs and facades.
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Outside copper, inside galvanized trapezoidal metal sheets
A factory hall in Stuttgart, originally built in the fifties with a saw-tooth roof, which the Knoche-architects(Leipzig) enlarged by one more "tooth". This addition adapts to the outside image of the old building with its brickwork look, but combines the facade of the new building with satined glass and copper sheets in mirror arrangement with concentric offset. The old patinated copper on the original saw-tooth roof was reused, but new copper with factory-made brown enhanced surface for roof and façade was used on the addition. To match the outside façade, the interior of the backplane as well as the under roof vision were covered continuously. Galvanized trapezoidal metal sheets were used which give the interior of the experimenting hall for conveyor technology a special significant look through the horizontal application of partially perforated sheets.
The Jury evaluated this change on the industrial building as a new building in existence, which exemplarily interprets all steps from the layout to the excellent workmanship in the range metal roofs and facades in all details.
The functional building in fifties style was completely redesigned and one segment was added.
Details about the property from the plumbers
The plumbing foremen of Dangel-Metall (Lenningen) were responsible for the copper work on roof and façade of the addition.
Cooperating with the architect Christian Knoche, they suggested a solution for covering the roof with shingles, where the connection would not show. Even with much experience in this technique of laying shingles, in these six weeks building time all their skills for detailed solutions were needed especially for the corner areas. Whether you are talking about the connections onto the glass façade or the design of the inside rails with their connection onto the old copper covering, even this difficult piece of work was solved by the specialists of Dangel-Metall with their 20 employees."
Catholic parish hall in Nagold
Shingle façade with metal substructure and insulation in Tecu Oxid.
Intentional "random" distribution of shingles in various lengths and centre-distances.
