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Hallenseestrasse Office Building. Interior office space; that remains unused because of the poor environmental performance of the building: on the left; the hvac set up in an attempt to fix this.
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Some 25 years ago, the development of Double-skin Glass façades (DSFs) grew in Germany as a promising alternative to address the well-known problems of curtain walls, particularly heat loss, over-heating and noise, by combining a thermal buffer and sun protection in a ventilated glass chamber. The introduction and spread of DSFs was not only based...
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... experience shows that even in a climate like that of Berlin, short summer (July and August) temperature average of about 18 ° and extreme rarely exceeding 28 °, overheating by solar radiation can be transformed into a problematic consideration. The problem led to the vacancy of several storeys of the building for several years, and the problem had to be resolved through the installation of air conditioning equipment to replace the original radiators (Fig.4). ...
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... experience shows that even in a climate like that of Berlin, short summer (July and August) temperature average of about 18 ° and extreme rarely exceeding 28 °, overheating by solar radiation can be transformed into a problematic consideration. The problem led to the vacancy of several storeys of the building for several years, and the problem had to be resolved through the installation of air conditioning equipment to replace the original radiators (Fig.4). ...
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... building profited from the earlier experiences from other cases and included mechanical ventilation with the support of the providers, and solved some of the problems other DSFs had by breaking the height of the DSF in sections allowing the external glass to be ventilated not only at the bottom and the top. Furthermore, besides the fulfilment of the goals of other actors, such as the architects and the mechanical systems providers, the building is especially important as a corporate image used by the Deutsche Post to enhance its image as a modern, dynamic enterprise (Fig 14), a usual goal for companies deciding to use glass façades. ...
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... The optimum width and height of the DSFs were calculated with the use of thermal simulations. The building is designed to rely on natural ventilation when external temperatures are between 5-25 °C, with the natural ventilation system being utilized 70% of the year [62] . The other high-rise example is 'Post Tower' in Bonn, which also incorporated natural ventilation through strategic DSF design. ...
