Automotive design
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Product • By Rolflex Netherlands BV • Compact Full vision door
Compact Full vision door
Design freedom with maximum transparency
Designing buildings with large door openings often comes with a challenge: how do you close them without compromising the architectural concept? Traditional industrial doors tend to be bulky, visually intrusive, and space-consuming. The Compact Full Vision door offers a different approach.
Compact folding, no wasted spaceIts unique folding system allows the door panels to fold compactly above the opening, without the need for overhead rails or inward-swinging sections. This keeps the ceiling free for other design elements and ensures the space remains fully usable—supporting clean lines both inside and out.
More light, more transparencyLarge glazed sections maximize natural daylight and crea... More
Project • By BuildEXT • Factories
Continental Budapest site
The joy of a technical challenge
We are planning a complete site development of 30 100 m2 in 5 phases over 5 years or Continental, one of the world’s leading automotive companies. The assignment was particularly exciting for us because the expansion of an industrial facility with complex systems is an excellent opportunity to take advantage of the BIM-based working method we use.
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Continental as a customer
Continental’s Budapest plant manufactures automotive electronics products for the world’s leading automotive manufacturers, applying highly advanced and innovative technologies in almost all areas of automotive electronics. Th... More
Project • By Genton • Research Facilities
Ford Asia Pacific Product Development Centre
A one-of-a-kind facility in Australasia, leading Australian architecture firm Genton’s design for the Ford Asia Pacific Product Development Centre project — delivered in collaboration with Cachet Group — fuses the client’s requirements for abundant natural light and privacy, delivering a minimal, state-of-the-art sanctuary designed to inspire creative thinking.
“This project was unique in that each of the spaces had to be suitable for both human and vehicle scale, allowing for easy movement of the cars through the spaces while staff work in and around those spaces,” says Genton Principal Marc Debney.
A space in which cars are designed from concept to prototype, Genton’s approach to... More