FROM A PIONEER TO THE SYNONYM - Alucobond

‘Gustavo’ Residential Building,
Berlin, Germany
Using ALUCOBOND®, the horizontal segmentation of the 16-storey
block of flats could also be kept to the jointing pattern. Solar panels
are also integrated in the ALUCOBOND® façade. ALUCOBOND®
and ALUCORE® were implemented likewise as high-strength
mounting panels for cooling ceiling elements or radiant ceilings.
A residential tower as Europe's largest work of art
Just how closely function and aesthetics are interwoven in architecture
can also be seen in the area of modernizing old buildings.
A really spectacular example of this can be found in Berlin, the
colourful and sometimes spectacular, rear-ventilated claddings
that also caused a stir internationally and were ‘decorated’ with
diverse awards.
before after
dynamic capital city of Germany, where the conflict between historical
heritage on one hand and the will to break into a new era
on the other, have produced a particularly exciting contrast. In the
course of revitalizing a monotonous, 21-storey high-rise building
in the suburb of Lichtenberg, that originated from the GDR era,
Europe's largest work of art emerged, so to speak. Here, spread
across the surface of almost 15 000 m² of a façade cladding, huge,
colourful, poetic pictures by the Spanish painter, Gustavo, can now
be viewed. He was entrusted by the workgroup for town planning
and architecture with the enlivening of the new outer skin of the
once dismally panelled building.
As a consequence, ALUCOBOND ® A2 also enabled our access to
specific projects in Switzerland and Austria, as well as in some of
the Asian countries such as Singapore and Malaysia which, due
to special fire regulation requirements, could otherwise not have
been realized with aluminium composite panels. More recently the