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Museum Complex, Neuss-Hombroich, Germany
A Work of Art for Works of Art
A Museum Built with Architecturally-Designed
Concrete and Glass
Planned by the star Japanese architect, Tadao Ando, the Langen Foundation art collection has found a new home. Built on an island, the Hombroich museum building is a typical Ando design whereby the use of architecturally-designed concrete surfaces has turned the structure into a work of art itself. This museum is the latest in a line of well-known projects which stand out through their puristic style of simplicity. This includes the Pulitzer Art Museum in St. Louis, the Modern Art Museum in Fort Worth (both USA) as well as the Berlin Memorial “Topography of Terror” – all these projects were realised with PERI formwork technology.
Even during construction of the building shell, high demands were placed on the concrete surfaces. An exact plywood arrangement had to be used caused by the number, position and spacing of individual ties, and all corners had to be formed with sharp edges.
VARIO GT 24 girder wall formwork with special plywood format of 1.80 x 0.90 m (plywood screwed on from rear) was used. Six tie positions were used for each plywood sheet. As the high number of ties were not a statical but an optical requirement, blind plugs were utilised. The formwork was designed for self-compacting SCC concrete with a concrete pressure of 100 kN/m².
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Fin-Ply and Rus-Ply
VARIO GT 24 Girder Wall Formwork
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Thomas Schieren
Supervisor
“As expected, we achieved fantastic concrete finishes with the PERI formwork solution. We''ve been working with PERI for the last 20 years and have never been disappointed.”
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Florack GmbH, Bonn |
| Architect: |
Tadao Ando |
| Field Service: |
PERI Germany, Willich |
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Field Service:
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PERI GmbH, Deutschland
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PERI Handbook 2005 Formwork
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