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12 | Roto Inside | 11.2014 Publisher Roto Frank AG Wilhelm-Frank-Platz 1 70771 Leinfelden-Echterdingen, DE Editorial board Monique Gnuschke, Udo Pauly Editorial office Comm´n Sense GmbH Lensbachstraße 10 52159 Roetgen, DE Telephone: +49 (0)2471 9212865 Telefax: +49 (0)2471 9212867 roto.inside@commn-sense.de Design and production avency GmbH Kiebitzpohl 77 48291 Telgte, DE Telephone: +49 (0)2504 888-0 Telefax: +49 (0)2504 888-199 info@avency.de Printers Griebsch & Rochol Druck GmbH & Co. KG Gabelsbergerstraße 1 59069 Hamm, DE Telephone: +49 (0)2385 931-0 info@grd.de total print run 12,500 copies Modernity in aluminium Aluprof relies on Roto AL 540 ■■ Aluminium When there are stringent demands on safety, ease of operation and durability, our Roto AL 540 range is the first choice for many manufacturers in the high-end aluminium sector. Developed on the basis of the modular design principle, it is available for almost any type and size of window, as well as for all opening types. A new office complex, with a usable floor space of 18,000 square metres over 15 floors, was constructed within two years in Warsaw’s elegant economic centre. The ‘Atrium’ was designed by the Warsaw architecture office of Kazimierski i Ryba. One of the project’s objectives was to construct a building with an ultra-modern energy management system. Numerous innovative technical solutions ensure that heat is used efficiently so that the building’s energy requirement is extremely low. It is no accident that the building was awarded a LEED Platinum certificate. The Aluprof MB-SR50N fixed mullion-bolt system was used for part of the facade construction, while the well-insulated Aluprof MB-86 system was used in another part of the large rear-ventilated curtain facade. Around five hundred windows were installed in the building here using Roto AL 540. Warsaw also boasts the ‘Concept Tower’, designed by the architecture office of FS&P Arcus – Mariusz Ścisło, and constructed in 2012. The 15 floors of this distinctive glass tower are now home to offices, apartments and businesses. The external building facade is predominantly based on the Aluprof MB-SR50 EFEKT system, which is char- acterised by the fact that no aluminium tracks are required. Around 250 outward opening top hung windows, equipped with the Roto AL 540 hard- ware product range, are installed in the ‘Concept Tower’. The 4 degrees incline of the central part of the three building sections proved to be a particular challenge, as top hung windows from the Aluprof MB-70Hi system were also used for the inclined facade. Imprint The fact that the ‘Wola Center’, designed by the star architect Stefan Kuryłowicz, would also become a monu- ment to him was certainly not part of the plan. He was one of Poland’s most important architects after 1989 and died on 6 June 2011 in a plane crash in Spain. Since the 1990s, Stefan Kuryłowicz primarily designed modern office buildings from steel and glass, which left a permanent impression on the skyline of the city of Warsaw. The ‘Wola Center’ was his last project. It consists of four buildings, which are connected by a spacious terrace with extensive green areas. It provides a total of about 31,000 square metres of office space. A special feature of the aluminium facade is the pronounced horizontal or vertical lines, which stem from the use of the Aluprof MB-SR50 fixed mullion-bolt facade. Hardware from the Roto AL 540 product range was used for more than four hundred windows. Some of these are only fifty centimetres wide, but attain a height of up to three metres. The form of the ‘Libra Business Center’ in Warsaw was designed by the S.A.M.I. architecture office. To give the impression of an all-glass facade, Aluprof used so-called ‘floating windows’ in the MB-SR50H system. The panes were mounted to MB-70US HI system profiles equipped with Roto AL 540 Turn&Tilt range hardware. The window frames were mounted on the facade’s fixed mullions and glazed from the outside – similar to fixed glazing. This means that there are no vis- ible bolts under the windows and thus the desired visual effect is ensured. Around four hundred windows were installed in this manner. In the port city of Gdynia, the new Pomeranian Technology Centre’s five modern glass curved facades extend out toward visitors. The impressive building was based on drafts by the AEC Krymow & Partners architecture office from Warsaw, which here developed a creation reminiscent of the modernistic architecture of the 1920s and 1930s. The developed grounds and structures cover an area of about 80,000 square metres. Inside the ultra-modern complex are offices, laboratories, conference and lecture rooms as well as restaurants and catering businesses. The MB-SR85 SEMI glass facade was specifically customised to this building. A large part of the building uses this system together with an additional single glazed porch section. Some facade window designs are outward opening top hung windows, indistinguishable from the fixed glazing sections of the facade. The windows, constructed in this way with their modern glass design, ensure optimal heat insulation and sound reduction. The hardware from the Roto AL 540 range can be found in several hundred of the Technology Centre windows. Aluprof S.A. – one of the European building industry’s leading aluminium systems suppliers – has relied on Roto for many years, most recently preferring the Roto AL 540. Zbigniew Poraj, Sales Director in the Project Business at Aluprof S.A., talked to Roto Inside about five properties in Poland where the facades were implemented by Aluprof. Roto AL 540 reliably ensures the safe operation of all windows in these buildings. 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