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| Small assistants for great architecture  The Ars Electronica Center in Linz/Austria not only houses the museum of future and technology, the building itself is part of the museum's topic. This becomes very evident at night when all the facades are illuminated in ever changing colours and reveal the influence of modern technology on everyday life. The Ars Electronica Museum is a unique building. "Visible from quite a distance, the prominent architecture gives distinction to the cityscape of Linz – but nevertheless you cannot catch it at a glance. Because there are no parallel outer edges, everything seems skewed, leads apart and at the same time together. A building that, depending on the perspective, has many different shapes."At the bottom of this spectacular appearance is aplenty technology, not only of the electronic kind. Many of the lights that make this colour spectacle possible are not accessible from the inside. Therefore the windows nearby had to be designed with hinges. Due to the large dimensions, exceptional forms and the weight of the windows maintenance would be impossible without the installed DICTATOR gas springs. They open the windows and keep them open. Nevertheless they can easily be closed by hand. As nearly all windows are of different sizes, all gas springs had to be calculated individually and produced accordingly. One window even needed two DICTATOR gas springs with different stroke lengths. DICTATOR gas springs easily adapt to constructional requirements and thus facilitate realizing the most ambitious architectural achievements. Apart from the Ars Electronica Museum, DICTATOR gas springs can be found in many other masterpieces of architecture, as for example in the London City Hall. There nearly 4000 DICTATOR gas springs, dimensioned individually for every window, make it possible to clean the windows. So the impressive building can always present itself in the best light. write your comments about the article :: © 2010 Construction News :: home page |