The Floating Office Rotterdam (FOR) designed by Dutch architects’ bureau Powerhouse Company reflects the values of its user – the Global Center on Adaptation (GCA), an NGO that develops solutions for adapting to climate change. The FOR building is innovative in building sustainability acting as a building that produces energy turning into a negative carbon footprint score. Responding to both the functional and aesthetical needs of the building typology, bi-folding doors from Solarlux were used on the building's facade.
Sustainable Building Concept & Design
The climate-resistant wooden building generates more energy than it needs to cover its own demands, and it also boasts a negative carbon footprint thanks to the emissions-friendly materials used in its construction. The building can be taken down and rebuilt at a new location at any time, or even recycled. The ground-breaking design combines high-tech solutions – like the water cooling system and solar collectors – with low-tech construction measures such as a pitched roof with an overhang and protruding balconies for extra shade.
Solarlux Bi-Folding Doors
The Highline System of Bi-Folding Doors from Solarlux was selected due to its excellent thermal insulation and unobstructed views when both closed and opened with the wide opening width.
- Wide Opening - The seven elements, each of which is almost a meter wide, can be folded up along the almost six-meter track to create a compact bundle, which can then be parked out of the way at the side of the opening. The result offers the ability to open the doors across their entire width onto the outdoor patios.
- Clear Views - With their slender frames (sight line in panel butt joint: just 99 mm) and large glass surfaces, the doors are extremely elegant, offering almost completely unobstructed views even when closed.
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