Okalux. (Product Review).A new technology centre has been constructed at the headquarters of Festo, a multi-national manufacturer of pneumatic equipment, in Esslingen, Germany. The building, designed by Architekturburo Jaschek, has three V-shaped atria Atria The heart has four chambers. The right and left atria are at the top of the heart and receive returning blood from the veins. The right and left ventricles are at the bottom of the heart and act as the body's main pumps. roofed with pneumatic pillow structures In geology a pillow structure is a primary sedimentary structure that resembles a pillow in size and shape. Pillow breccia is a deposit of pillow structures and fragments of lava in a matrix of tuff. and enclosed on their south sides by glass facades held in place by delicate wire-rope cable structures. The atria act as meeting places for the company's employees, and serve as buffer zones buffer zone n. A neutral area between hostile or belligerent forces that serves to prevent conflict. Noun 1. buffer zone to provide passive solar
Passive solar technologies convert sunlight into usable heat, cause air-movement for ventilation or cooling, or store heat for future use, without energy gains. The glass facades were manufactured by Okalux in Marktheidenfeld, Germany. They comprise a series of glass panels, 2.4m x 2m in size, each of which is fastened with four clamps to a cable net structure. This in turn is rigidly connected with compression and tension rods to a secondary, curved cable net which takes up lateral wind loads. Inward flexing due to wind-generated stresses is taken up by horizontal wire ropes; outward flexing due to wind-generated suction suction /suc·tion/ (suk´shun) aspiration of gas or fluid by mechanical means. post-tussive suction a sucking sound heard over a lung cavity just after a cough. is transmitted to the building's ground-floor slab or conducted to points beneath the roof girders by vertical wire ropes. Enquiry 505 www.arplus.com/enq.html |
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