The MOL Campus, the new premises of the oil and gas company MOL Group, rises on the banks of the Danube in Budapest. The design is by London-based Foster and Partners in collaboration with Finta Studio.
The floors in the podium and tower have different footprints. The transition extends over two storeys. Instead of faceting the glass elements, double-curved glass was used to create a flowing transition. The bending radii and the arrangement of the modules were optimised to simplify construction. In addition, the double-bent insulating glass panes were only used sparingly.
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500 multiple-curved glass facade elements
The aluminium-glass facade consists of 24,800 square metres of element facade and 1,700 square metres of mullion-and-transom facade. The facade was prefabricated and installed on site, including 500 multiple convex and concave curved glass panes.
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Two facade construction companies were involved in the complicated building project. Both companies used the special Heavydrive equipment to master the difficult installation of the facade elements. A general contractor set the upper glass panes, including the elements around the balcony of the roof terrace. The Heavydrive GMG 600 glass assembly unit was used for the glazing of the roof terrace. The vacuum suction unit LSG 750 K MH was used to set all the straight glass elements.
Installing facade elements under an overhang
To install the spherically curved glass on the entire structure, the team used two vacuum suction units LSG 500 K RSP, which were specially developed for differently curved glass panes.
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For the lower facade elements, the Heavydrive units were used to install the spherically curved glass panes under an overhang.
