December 17, 2020 10:53 PM PST
At Sihl City, the landmark shopping center planned by architect Theo
Hotz of Zürich, Jakob AG was able to implement several installations
that play a key role in the design of the facility. They clearly
illustrate that the company’s products not only inspire aesthetic
innovations but also offer cost-effectiveness benefits.To get more news
about [url=https://boegger.net]stainless steel green facade[/url], you can visit boegger.net official website.
Inaugurated
in the spring of 2007 and stretching over an effective area of approx.
100,000 m2, Sihl City in Zürich Wiedikon is one of Switzerland’s largest
and most advanced shopping and leisure complexes. Planned by architect
Theo Hotz and built at a cost of approx. CHF 620 million, the large
facility on the premises of a paper mill on the Sihl river attracts
20,000 visitors a day, offering a broad range of shops, restaurants,
entertainment venues, and cultural events. Jakob AG participated in
several facets of this project which also represents a landmark from an
architectural point of view. The eastern façade of the parking garage
with a capacity of 850 cars was equipped with a “green wall” planned by
Jakob AG, and the southern façade of the same building was covered with a
stainless steel net across a large surface. In addition, Webnet
structures were prominently used in the hallways of the shopping center.
With
a height of 23 meters and a width of 25.5 meters, the green wall of the
parking facility at Sihl City represents a category of façade greening
projects whose sheer size and resulting loads make it impossible to
apply standard solutions. Jakob AG designed the training systems in
cooperation with the planners of Raderschall, a Meilen-based landscape
architecture firm, and implemented this façade greening task as a
subcontractor. The scope of delivery included the planning and supply of
the training systems but also their installation on site by experienced
Jakob technicians. The relatively wide-meshed training structure,
formed by vertical and horizontal ropes of various thicknesses, is
suspended at a distance of 70 cm in front of the eight-stories high,
sectional-glass lined eastern façade of the parking facility in order to
provide sufficient growing space for the plants which comprise in this
case mainly Chinese wisteria and birthworts. Especially designed, rugged
steel spacers permanently connected to the supporting structure of the
building ensure safe anchorage of the ropes. The distribution of the
spacers, mounted to the slabs of the second, fourth, sixth, and eighth
floors, follows a clear-cut grid pattern that matches the facility’s
façade design which is characterized by a vertical strip pattern. The
same applies to the vertical ropes of the training structure which
optimally matches the graphically strong aspect of the façade.
While
the green wall on the eastern façade of the parking garage is
particularly remarkable for its sheer size, the curtain over the
building’s southern façade with Webnet represents a hitherto unique
application of this product. It is impressive with regard to both design
and cost-effectiveness. For this façade, architect Theo Hotz wanted a
“skin-like”, large-area structure that would preserve the original
character and aspect of this sober and practical building to the
greatest possible extent. A fine-meshed stainless steel net turned out
to be the optimal solution of this task. Viewed from a distance, the
Webnet appears here like a film tightly stretched over the edges of the
fairfaced concrete building. Only a close view reveals the fine-meshed
structure of the stainless steel net which is very unobtrusively
attached to the front surfaces of cantilevered floor slabs. A unique
visual effect is also created by the Webnet on the internal façade of
the parking garage. Here, the visitor is offered a largely unimpeded
view which prevents the claustrophobic feeling that many people
experience inside parking facilities. And to comfort more anxious souls,
the external perimeters of the floors are additionally secured by a
solid railing arranged in front of the Webnet curtain. Thanks to Webnet,
Theo Hotz was able to design a façade that is not just architecturally
unique. The solution, implemented at relatively low cost, is also
convincing from the cost-effectiveness point of view – not least because
of the low maintenance costs of the stainless steel net.
Almost
as remarkable as the Webnet façade of the parking facility is the design
of the stairways inside Sihl City, where stainless steel nets replace
the conventional banisters. This applies especially to the spiral
staircases whose cores are secured with net stockings. The stockings are
attached to the concrete ceiling of the staircase with a metal hoop and
held in shape by vertically arranged stainless steel ropes running
along the internal surface and fixed to the lateral surfaces of the
slabs and steps. The seamless nets, finished at the factory, were
installed on site in record time by Jakob AG technicans. Cost
considerations also influenced the choice of Webnet at Sihl City, but in
addition to the price advantage, the architect was fascinated by the
possibility of securing a flight of stairs with a minimum amount of
material without compromising the lucid and pure appearance of the
architectural assets. Quite to the contrary: the tightly stretched
stainless steel stocking visually emphasizes the cylindrical form of the
central core, an effect that could not be achieved with a conventional
banister.
At Sihl City, the landmark shopping center planned by architect Theo
Hotz of Zürich, Jakob AG was able to implement several installations
that play a key role in the design of the facility. They clearly
illustrate that the company’s products not only inspire aesthetic
innovations but also offer cost-effectiveness benefits.To get more news
about [b][url=https://boegger.net]stainless steel green facade[/url][/b], you can visit boegger.net official website.
Inaugurated
in the spring of 2007 and stretching over an effective area of approx.
100,000 m2, Sihl City in Zürich Wiedikon is one of Switzerland’s largest
and most advanced shopping and leisure complexes. Planned by architect
Theo Hotz and built at a cost of approx. CHF 620 million, the large
facility on the premises of a paper mill on the Sihl river attracts
20,000 visitors a day, offering a broad range of shops, restaurants,
entertainment venues, and cultural events. Jakob AG participated in
several facets of this project which also represents a landmark from an
architectural point of view. The eastern façade of the parking garage
with a capacity of 850 cars was equipped with a “green wall” planned by
Jakob AG, and the southern façade of the same building was covered with a
stainless steel net across a large surface. In addition, Webnet
structures were prominently used in the hallways of the shopping center.
With
a height of 23 meters and a width of 25.5 meters, the green wall of the
parking facility at Sihl City represents a category of façade greening
projects whose sheer size and resulting loads make it impossible to
apply standard solutions. Jakob AG designed the training systems in
cooperation with the planners of Raderschall, a Meilen-based landscape
architecture firm, and implemented this façade greening task as a
subcontractor. The scope of delivery included the planning and supply of
the training systems but also their installation on site by experienced
Jakob technicians. The relatively wide-meshed training structure,
formed by vertical and horizontal ropes of various thicknesses, is
suspended at a distance of 70 cm in front of the eight-stories high,
sectional-glass lined eastern façade of the parking facility in order to
provide sufficient growing space for the plants which comprise in this
case mainly Chinese wisteria and birthworts. Especially designed, rugged
steel spacers permanently connected to the supporting structure of the
building ensure safe anchorage of the ropes. The distribution of the
spacers, mounted to the slabs of the second, fourth, sixth, and eighth
floors, follows a clear-cut grid pattern that matches the facility’s
façade design which is characterized by a vertical strip pattern. The
same applies to the vertical ropes of the training structure which
optimally matches the graphically strong aspect of the façade.
While
the green wall on the eastern façade of the parking garage is
particularly remarkable for its sheer size, the curtain over the
building’s southern façade with Webnet represents a hitherto unique
application of this product. It is impressive with regard to both design
and cost-effectiveness. For this façade, architect Theo Hotz wanted a
“skin-like”, large-area structure that would preserve the original
character and aspect of this sober and practical building to the
greatest possible extent. A fine-meshed stainless steel net turned out
to be the optimal solution of this task. Viewed from a distance, the
Webnet appears here like a film tightly stretched over the edges of the
fairfaced concrete building. Only a close view reveals the fine-meshed
structure of the stainless steel net which is very unobtrusively
attached to the front surfaces of cantilevered floor slabs. A unique
visual effect is also created by the Webnet on the internal façade of
the parking garage. Here, the visitor is offered a largely unimpeded
view which prevents the claustrophobic feeling that many people
experience inside parking facilities. And to comfort more anxious souls,
the external perimeters of the floors are additionally secured by a
solid railing arranged in front of the Webnet curtain. Thanks to Webnet,
Theo Hotz was able to design a façade that is not just architecturally
unique. The solution, implemented at relatively low cost, is also
convincing from the cost-effectiveness point of view – not least because
of the low maintenance costs of the stainless steel net.
Almost
as remarkable as the Webnet façade of the parking facility is the design
of the stairways inside Sihl City, where stainless steel nets replace
the conventional banisters. This applies especially to the spiral
staircases whose cores are secured with net stockings. The stockings are
attached to the concrete ceiling of the staircase with a metal hoop and
held in shape by vertically arranged stainless steel ropes running
along the internal surface and fixed to the lateral surfaces of the
slabs and steps. The seamless nets, finished at the factory, were
installed on site in record time by Jakob AG technicans. Cost
considerations also influenced the choice of Webnet at Sihl City, but in
addition to the price advantage, the architect was fascinated by the
possibility of securing a flight of stairs with a minimum amount of
material without compromising the lucid and pure appearance of the
architectural assets. Quite to the contrary: the tightly stretched
stainless steel stocking visually emphasizes the cylindrical form of the
central core, an effect that could not be achieved with a conventional
banister.