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House with a Missing Column

House with a Missing Column
Georg Aerni

House with a Missing Column

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Every apartment in this house occupies one entire platform of the house. All functions, which are shared by several apartments like staircase and elevator installation shafts stay in front of the facades. They build the load-bearing structure of this house.


Their position as additional building parts has to closely follow the restriction of the building code. Regular structural arrangement becomes impossible; therefore the beams holding the slab and prolonging the interior space towards the outside have an enormous weight. 


The steel structure supporting the individual slabs offers an extraordinarily large scale to each apartment. The glazing and the position of the furniture and side rooms change from one level to the other and give a different interpretation of the monumental structure on each slab. The steel structure lies on the sunken, irregular pedestal of concrete which contains cellar and parking garage.

air-lux window façade system

air-lux window façade system
Georg Aerni
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14 air-lux sliding windows, 1.6 to 4.2 metres wide, fixed windows 4.4 metres wide, room height of 2.3 to 2.8 metres. Interior windows, door elements, lift tower windows, all-glass railings.

Brand description
air-lux is a floor-to-ceiling glass façade system with large-surface sliding windows and a unique sealing concept. The maintenance-free air-lux sliding window system with sliding casement windows up to 18 m2 was developed by Krapf AG, a leading Swiss metal and façade engineering company and comprehensive provider of quality solutions. With air-lux, Krapf AG offers architects, façade planners and home-builders a versatile window façade system that is as architecturally and aesthetically appealing as it is structurally sound. Functionality and quality air-lux is planned and produced in-house and installed by our own teams. Since the first installation in 2004, over 4500 sliding casement windows have been installed. And that experience shows: air-lux impresses with the highest functionality and quality, is the leading provider in terms of sliding casement window size and achieves top marks for impermeability and safety.
Products applied in Commercial , Cultural , Recreational , +1
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