Radialsystem V, Berlin
TELAMON Vermögensverwaltung
Owner / Developer
TELAMON Vermögensverwaltung
Architect
Gerhard Spangenberg
Building Function
Centre for Experimental Art
Status
Completed 09/2006
approx. 1.800 m²
Height
approx. 20 m
Technical Features
- Stick system facade
- External sunshade, moveable glass louvre system with silk screen printing
We provided
Consultancy
Sound facade decisions start with a clear understanding of the project’s starting point.
- Priedemann organises the available project information, design intent, use, and facade-related technical and external requirements.
- Together with the project participants, objectives, priorities, constraints and unresolved questions are made visible.
- This creates a reliable basis for the next design steps and for decisions before the facade concept is developed in greater detail.
- Priedemann identifies and structures the project information, requirements, objectives and constraints relevant to facade planning.
- These may include design intent, use, technical and energy-related requirements, local conditions, and quality, cost and programme objectives.
- Unresolved questions, dependencies and competing priorities are made explicit and translated into clear decision criteria.
- This creates a reliable basis for early facade design and subsequent planning.
- The subjects reviewed and documented depend on the project stage and agreed scope.
Decision criteria and priorities
- Not every facade requirement has the same priority within a project.
- Design intent, use, technical requirements, local conditions, quality, cost and programme objectives can influence one another.
- Establishing the project basis therefore also means structuring these requirements and making potential conflicts visible.
- The resulting criteria provide a shared basis against which later options and decisions can be assessed consistently.
Priedemann offers comprehensive knowledge of materials, types of construction and construction methods for assessing the quality and value of the inventory with minimized depth of interference with the material.
Taking into account listed buildings, economic and design requirements such as preservation of individual details, renovation during ongoing operation, gutting with new extension, etc., we develop targeted renovation concepts for the facade on the basis of precise measurements as well as material, strength and load-bearing capacity analyses.
Early facade design begins once the strategic objectives and principal requirements of a project are sufficiently understood for possible directions to be developed.
- Priedemann translates this basis into options for design, materials and construction, considered alongside technical requirements and project-specific constraints.
- The comparison makes differences and trade-offs visible, and a preferred direction is developed further.
- The purpose is not to complete the technical detailing, but to establish a traceable design basis for subsequent development.
- The criteria, sketches and documentation included depend on the project and agreed appointment.
- Early facade design develops possible design, material and construction directions from the project objectives and requirements.
- Priedemann considers relevant facade types, principle details, interfaces, and technical and operational requirements.
- Options are described clearly and compared against agreed criteria.
- This allows architectural intent, technical viability and project-specific implications to be assessed together.
- The outcome is a robust design direction that provides a basis for subsequent system development and technical design.
Facade design for statutory approval develops an existing facade concept for the project’s approval and coordination context.
- Priedemann brings together available design information, technical requirements, materials, facade types and interfaces.
- Depending on the project, fire, safety, building-physics and acoustic requirements are also considered.
- The result is a clear facade basis for coordination with the relevant disciplines and for subsequent design.
- Facade design for statutory approval develops the facade information needed to demonstrate relevant approval requirements.
- Depending on the appointment, Priedemann addresses technical facade subjects, interfaces, fire and safety requirements, and the necessary design information.
- Unresolved points are coordinated with the relevant disciplines and technical contributions are documented.
- The scope, submission process and responsibility for the complete statutory application are agreed for the project.
Specials
Thermal building physics connects the facade build-up with the building’s energy and building-physics requirements.
- Priedemann investigates thermal protection, glazing, solar control, insulation, thermal bridges and condensation risk.
- Relevant performance values and material build-ups are determined from local and project-specific requirements.
- Where commissioned, values from the facade and building services also contribute to the overall energy balance of the building.
- Priedemann assesses the thermal performance of facades and develops suitable component and layer build-ups.
- This can include calculating U-values and g-values, insulation thicknesses, isotherms, two- or three-dimensional thermal bridges, surface temperatures and condensation risk.
- Depending on the appointment, component catalogues are prepared and values from the facade and building services are combined for the building’s overall energy balance.
- The findings support decisions on thermal protection, materials, glazing, solar control and technical detailing.
Facade performance and building energy
- Thermal assessment does not always stop at an individual facade component.
- Depending on the appointment, values from the facade and building services can be combined when considering the building’s overall energy balance.
- Isotherms, thermal-bridge calculations and surface temperatures can also show where construction details become critical and where condensation risk may arise.
- Thermal building physics therefore connects individual material and detailing decisions with the wider energy performance of the building
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