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Schlagwort: ETFE IR-Cut

  • The Harbor, Merida, Mexico (2018)

    The Harbor, Merida, Mexico (2018)

    Project data

    Design: Lonas Lorenzo
    ETFE planning: z3rch
    Cutting pattern ETFE: form-TL
    Assembly: Lonas Lorenzo
    ETFE roof system: 3dtex
    Structure: ETFE cushion
    Material: ETFE IR-Cut + steel + aluminium
    Covered Area: aprox. 1.850 sqm
    photos: 3dtex

    The project consist in 2 halls and the main walkway of the shopping mall, where the main idea was to have the feeling of being outside but with a better thermal sensation, the project consist in a variable radial structure where you have a repetitive arch that contains a cushion of ETFE and one part of TX30 that increase the size along the walkway to create a soft and enjoyable natural lighting.

    The client requested a roof that fulfill the requirements of the thermal study they have from the first analysis made for a glass roof, then the first thing to do was to find the combination of ETFE properties that fills the G values asked by the client and to make bigger spaces than the original glass proposal.

    The unique about the project was the combination of materials, and how to make the installation of these two materials, we create a drain in between the cushions and the steel structure to have a clean set of materials.

     

  • Paseo Acoxpa – Mexico City (2018)

    Paseo Acoxpa – Mexico City (2018)

    Project data

    Arquitect: Grupo Arquitech
    Cutting patterns ETFE: z3rch
    Structure: ETFE Kissen überdachung
    Material: ETFE IR-Cut 250µm + Natural printed 200 µm
    Covered Area: aprox. 1.000 sqm
    photos: 3dtex


    Paseo Acoxpa is an outdoor shopping center of 56,000 square metres opened in 2010 in colonia Ex-Hacienda Coapa, Mexico City.

    The project consist of a roof of 67 m long and 16 m wide in the form of a half cylinder. The steel structure describing the half cylinder was done with arches that cross their self to form equal diamond areas between the arches.

    Every diamond was covered with an ETFE cushion, making a total of 235 cushion to be confection and installed. 3 types of cushion where needed to complete the 1.685 sqm of roof surface area.

  • Oxygen – San José, Costa Rica (2018)

    Oxygen – San José, Costa Rica (2018)

    Project data

    Architect: Jerde
    Engineering ETFE + cable structure, cutting patterns: z3rch
    Main contractor ETFE-Cushion: 3dtex
    Assembly: Lonas Lorenzo
    Manufacturing ETFE: Novum
    Manufacturing Stainless Steel Cables: Jakob
    Structure: Cable net supported ETFE cushion
    Material: ETFE natural + IR-Cut, Stainless steel cables
    Covered Area: 1.600 sqm
    photos: 3dtex, Lonas Lorenzo

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    San Francisco de Heredia will soon be home to Oxígeno, a unique recreational and commercial space that combines nature and human relaxation in a development that “will be unique in the world.” For this amazing project it was asked to us to developed a cover for the main food court of the almost 125.000 sqm recreation and shopping area.
    The job was to developed an ETFE roof for 1.600 sqm, the idea, to do one big ETFE cushion!

    The roof has a diameter of 45m and the ETFE material is supported by a cable net attached to a steel structure provided by the client. Very important in this project is the safety system against water ponding, a system developed by the firm 3dtex, which does not use the plastic tube inside the cushion, achieving first a better safety of the system and second a much clear and elegant architectural design of the structure.

    In this way the country of Costa Rica and the city of Heredia not only became it first ETFE cushion roof but also the biggest in the world.

    Here we leave you a video of the assembly!video: Julián García | editing: Andres Aguirre