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Hallenseestrasse Office Building, The double facade corridor allows to open windows to the chamber and to ventilate to through ducts that are housed under the overhang of the sill.
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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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... curtain wall facades. On the south façade, which faces the road, is added to a double skin ventilated facade to control combustion noise and smoke, composed of two glass sheets with a 85 cm chamber with interior glazing seal double glazing (WSG) exterior with safety glass (ESG) reflecting, in addition to sunscreen roll-curtains inside the chamber (Fig. 3). There is no direct air exchange to the outside but through the chamber which in turn mechanically assisted ventilation through air ducts closed within it. The double facade is a "corridor", i.e. horizontal partition dividing the chamber on each floor, which prevents the transfer of noise by air from one floor to another even when ...
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... curtain wall facades. On the south façade, which faces the road, is added to a double skin ventilated facade to control combustion noise and smoke, composed of two glass sheets with a 85 cm chamber with interior glazing seal double glazing (WSG) exterior with safety glass (ESG) reflecting, in addition to sunscreen roll-curtains inside the chamber (Fig. 3). There is no direct air exchange to the outside but through the chamber which in turn mechanically assisted ventilation through air ducts closed within it. The double facade is a "corridor", i.e. horizontal partition dividing the chamber on each floor, which prevents the transfer of noise by air from one floor to another even when ...
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... conducted in generic mockups by the producer indicates that the cooling loads and overall energy demand are roughly comparable to those of a central HVAC system (Fig 13). Advantages that continue to be mentioned are: lower energy requirements for distribution of the conditioned air mass; lower construction costs and simpler implementation and maintenance; individual control of the temperature and ventilation rates. ...
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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. ...
