Gill-shaped hatches for the Elbphilharmonie (Elbe Philharmonic Hall)
Super Spacers® also provided almost identical advantages for the unique facade construction of the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg's Hafen City (dockside area). The renowned Swiss architects Herzog & deMeuron had imagined the concert hall with its attached hotel and apartment area in a "slit, moulded and sliced up” state to create a connection between its interior and exterior. Thus gill-shaped hatches can be found in the insulating facade area in front of the hotel. They are created by arched side edges that are respectively directly connected to a flat insulating glass element. Ventilation flaps enclose these soffit surfaces and make it possible for hotel guests to take in the smells and sounds of the harbour. Nearly 2,200 facade units were installed in total in the project. The spherically arched glazed insulating glass facade elements, which are found mainly in the hotel and backstage area, are manufactured using the flexible Super Spacer® TriSeal™ Premium Plus. Due to its exposed position, the facade must also be able to withstand the most powerful gale-force winds. Therefore the glass elements were put through extensive strength tests at the Gundelfingen-based facade specialist Gartner. Winds of 150 kilometres per hour, applied a pressure of more than 600 Pascal on to the panes of glass, which also had to withstand heavy rain of two litres per minute and per square meter, and pendulum weight impact tests. Super Spacer® TriSeal™ proved that they are able to withstand even greater stresses in a hurricane simulator at a wind speed of 350 km/h without any difficulty when subjected to positive pressure, and at a wind speed of 395 km/h under suction. Christoph Rubel on the reasons: "In the case of a window with a rigid spacer this forms a sharp edge in the edge seal when subjected above a certain pressure burden on which the glass can break. A flexible spacer also makes the edge seal flexible so that there is no longer a risk of breakage at this point.
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