Edgetech spacers played a part in completing the MOL Campus in Budapest, a 29-storey, 86,000 square-metre tower that is the work of façade expert Agnes Koltay and architects Foster and Partners.
Around 14,000 square metres of insulating glass, and over 500 cylindrically curved panes went into bringing the design to life. A mixture of 16mm and 18mm Super Spacer SG warm-edge spacers were used.
Agnes Koltay said: “The decision to use Super Spacer was driven by the curved insulating glass façade, which would have been almost impossible to realize with rigid spacers.
“In addition, small tolerance deviations can occur at the edges of the curved glass during the manufacturing process. The structural foam compensates for this with its ability to deform and adapt to the space between the panes.
Edgetech Managing Director Chris Alderson added: “Free-form, organic facades are one of the most important architectural trends of recent years.
“Without world-class flexible components like the Super Spacer, they would be extremely complex, slow and expensive to implement.”
