HAVER & BOECKER

The office building of the wire weaving divison was expanded throughout the year 2009 and a fourth floor added on the top.

At the same time the building was clad with a wire mesh façade and it now appears in a shiny stainless steel look.

As a special highlight the facade is equipped with a transparent IMAGIC WEAVE facade in top right area. Over a width of nine meters and a height of 4,70 meters the mesh type DOGLA-TRIO 1030 is equipped with LED profiles: 222 profiles with a length of three meters each are attached to the back of the wire mesh: 74 times on top of each other and 3 times side by side. The appearance of the total façade remains uniform. Each of the 10.700 LED pixels can display over 16 million colors and be addressed individually. The LEDs are arranged on 62,5 mm centers horizontally and vertically. The aspect ratio of the façade is approximately 2:1; as a comparision: new LCD-TVs have a ratio of 16:9.

Each segment requires 8 feed cables, 24 in total. All feed cables run invisibly through the profiles of the substructure framing, are bundled at the bottom und led into the basement to connect with an air-conditioned 19 inch control cabinet. Depending on the resolution of the media source the Windows-based system can play all standard video- and picture formats. For a size of 42 m² the connection wattage of only 6,5 kW for the full façade is very low. The optimum viewing distance of the media façade is 45 to 60 meters.

On the next page you can learn more about the architectural appearance of the full facade.