Striking, Inspiring, Sustainable - Spacer Serves MOL Goals

Glass facade on a tall office building

Edgetech spacer technology has played a vital part in completing a striking, inspiring and highly sustainable new building project.

The MOL campus in Budapest is the work of world-renowned façade expert Agnes Koltay and architects Foster + Partners.

Oil and gas supplier MOL is setting its sights on a net zero future and preparing for the huge transition that will entail.

As part of that process, the company envisioned a cutting-edge new headquarters designed to achieve BREEAM Excellent and LEED Platinum certification.

The resulting landmark is a 29-storey, 86,000sq.m tower able to house 2,500 workers.

It has been designed to maximise natural light, rain is collected to water plants and flush toilets and heating and cooling is provided using renewable energy.

Its elegantly sweeping glass façade seamlessly blends a five-storey section housing restaurants and conference halls with the main tower.

 

IGUs

Around 14,000sq.m insulating glass and over 500 cylindrically curved panes went into bringing the design to life.

A mixture of 16mm and 18mm Super Spacer SG warm-edge spacers were used to provide stability, flexibility and performance.

 

 “The decision to use Super Spacer was driven by the curved insulating glass façade, which would have been almost impossible to realize with rigid spacers.”

– Agnes Koltay 

Façade expert, Koltay Façades

 

Adaptability

“In addition, small tolerance deviations can occur at the edges of the curved glass during the manufacturing process. The structural foam compensates for this with its ability to deform and adapt to the space between the panes,” continues Koltay.

The Opus by Zaha Hadid and the spectacular Killa-designed Museum of the Future in Dubai are just two of the most prestigious free-form façades designed by Koltay Façades that have benefited from Edgetech performance.

 

Free-form façades

Edgetech MD Chris Alderson says: "Free-form, organic façades are one of the most important architectural trends of recent years. Without flexible components like the Super Spacer, they would be extremely complex, slow and expensive to implement.”

Picture: Super Spacer SG has brought the stunning MOL Campus to life.

www.edgetechig.co.uk

Article written by John Roper
25th May 2022

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