Friday, November 19, 2010

Fancy Facade


 Kiefer Technic is an Austrian manufacturer of stainless steel cabinets and wall panels for hospitals and labs and all things sanitary. Their showroom in Bad Gleichenberg, designed by Ernst Giselbrecht + Partner, boasts a dynamic facade. This facade moves and changes throughout the day allowing or blocking light into different areas for different purposes.
The sunscreen is simply aluminum panels controlled by motorized shutter devices.
They claim individual offices have their own controls for the panel outside their window but it seems there is also some overriding programming that also controls them.
Check out this video that shows the movement and different looks of the facade.

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