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| Cubic 6 automatic gate opens the doors of Casa Maier  A Ditec Cubic 6 automatic gate opens the doors of Casa Maier in Trieste, inside a well-renovated eighteenth century building of historic value. Until the second world war, Cavana was an area of prostitution and petty business, temporary residence of many Trieste-based sailors during their stay in town before going out to sea. A city within a city, a stream of small roads and lanes, of passers-by and residents coming from the most diverse ethnic groups. Then people started to abandon the area, until ten years ago; nowadays, the area has been rediscovered thanks to a major urban revaluation project which restored the beauty and harmony of an area of great historic and architectural value.Amongst the renovation projects started in the Cavana area, Casa Maier is certainly well worth a mention. The building to be renovated is a palace built towards the end of the eighteenth century, in 1798, to be precise, which belonged to the Maier family, a wealthy family but with no history, like many other families living at that time in this Habsburg city. The building consists of three floors built around a courtyard featuring overlaid arches, accessible from the road by means of the original wooden entrance and a large underpass. Nowadays Casa Maier 1798 is the name given to this renovation work, which has taken six years to be completed, and has revealed, behind the fallen ceilings and other abandoned rooms, a sober and well-proportioned building, which is now inhabited by high-class people and is the venue of high-quality business activities. In this impressive environment, Epoca property developers' in-house designers have decided to fit in the underpass a very smart load bearing glass entrance gate on oxidised brass wings, separating the main entrance facing the road from Casa Maier internal courtyard. To automate this gate, which required an aesthetically pleasing solution, Ditec was selected for its know-how. The model installed by Ditec was Cubic 6, the underground automation for swing gates suitable to operate prestigious gates, as it perfectly blends in with the design of the gate without affecting its aesthetic value. To make Ditec photocells even less obtrusive, they have been mounted inside the oxidised brass uprights, manufactured in the same material as the frames, the lift doors and the large windows fitted to the building. Even the cover plate of the underground automation has been manufactured in the same material, to give the whole building a harmonious look. write your comments about the article :: © 2009 Construction News :: home page |