Systea - Design & Build Review | Issue 57

We support ideas

SYSTEA is a competent partner for both, architects and installers in the design and the construction of high quality suspended rear-ventilated facades, because SYSTEA offers high quality products and systems combined with excellent services

More than simply a supplier of systems

As experts for sub-structure systems, we employ our entire knowledge to provide our customers with tailored solutions and to reduce the increasing complexity of demanding façade designs.

Our CE certified systems as well as our extensive consultancy, planning, design and implementation services make it possible for us to realise almost any design.

Through constant communication with our partners in all spheres of the industry, from architects to contractors we are able to identify developments and trends. We stay ahead of the market by constantly adapting and increasing our portfolio so that our client’s work is easier. This is what we mean by “Simplifying Facades”.

Project: Bauhaus Outlet, Berlin (Germany)
Architect: Müller Reimann Architekten, Berlin (Germany)
Cladding: AlucobondPlus composite panels
Installer: HenkeAG, Hagen
SYSTEA solution: Aluminium-L-Brackets with KU35 VA rail system
Pictures: Stefan Müller

“In a world becoming ever more complex, in everything we do our goal is to make everyday life at work easier for our business partners.”

Project name: SKAIO
Location: Theodor-Fischer-Strasse 50, 74076 Heilbronn, Germany
Architect: Kaden+Lager, Berlin
Finalisation: 2019
Cladding: Aluminium sheets, fibre cement boards
Sub-structure: Systea ALWI + UBE 25
Insulation: Glass wool
Pictures: Conné van d´Grachten

From words to action

The facade requires additional attention, as the face of the building. Architects, planners and designers, tradesmen and workers are faced by new challenges throughout the entire course of the design and construction process from the first idea and inception of possibilities for implementation using different cladding materials, right through to a suitable sub-structure.

And so you can count on us at all times during this process. Here at SYSTEA we are always ready to give you reliable and dependable advice and support you on all questions con-cerning facades, with our Technical Support Team and our external advisers active in the field.

Project: Shoe store Schüttfort, Hamburg, Germany Architect: C. M. Römer Architekturbüro
Claddingt: Prefa aluminium rhomboid façade tile 20 × 20 SYSTEA solution: Profile systems ALWI-S und ALHO with aluminium L-brackets
Photo: Croce & WIR

Complex Questions – competent responses

Advisory Services

General advice and consultancy for systems for suspended rear-ventilated facade systems (VHF)
Checking and designing technical master details
Preliminary static calculations and investigations
Advice on rules and regulations governing supervision of construction work
Advice on structural physics and relevant fire protection aspects
Support when preparing tender documents
Training and seminars for customers and partners in the industry

Design Services

Technical representation of Details
Definition of specialist structural elements
Static engineering for facades (facade wall cladding, sub-structure, specialist structural elements)
Installation plans for the sub-structure
Determining quantities required, Take-offs/Preparing parts lists

Implementation services

Visiting building sites for technical support
Inductions for installation works
Solving implementation problems
Practical training for companies completing the work

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Project: Frankfurt School of Finance & Management, Frankfurt a.M., Germany

Architect: Henning Larsen Architects

Cladding: Mosa ceramic panels

SYSTEA solution: Profile system UBE25

with stainless steel brackets

Photo: Royal Mosa

SYSTEA offers unlimited design options

Freedom for your ideas

SYSTEA sub-structure systems offer more than just secure support.

Through our contact with the industry, our systems recognise the demands of architects and designers, planners and facade installers make and allow these recognitions to be included in our solutions. Along with our highly competent technical performance, our systems distinguish themselves in this way through efficient and economic assembly and installation.

Thanks to their flexibilty, SYSTEA substructure systems allow architect’s almost unbounded freedom of facade design whether using fibre cement, HPL or aluminium composite panels, ceramic panels or natural stone, metal cassettes or plaster-faced support panels. Through our large selection of wall brackets, carrier rail and clinch rail profiles and appropriate accessories we offer a suitable solution for almost every facade design and cladding material.

Project: Frankfurt School of Finance & Management, Frankfurt a.M., Germany

Architect: Henning Larsen Architects

Cladding: Mosa ceramic panels

SYSTEA solution: Profile system UBE25

with stainless steel brackets

Photo: Royal Mosa

Project: Louis Vuitton Fondation, Paris, France
Architect: Frank Gehry
Cladding: Fibreglass concrete
SYSTEA solution: Special construction
Photo: POHL Group

Project: The Wave, Vejle, Denmark

Architect: Henning Larsen Architects

Cladding: Creaton Tonality facades tiles

SYSTEA solution: Special construction

Photo: Jacob Due

In case standard solutions are not enough, SYSTEA offers special constructions tailored to the customer needs

Whatever is not possible, cannot be

Extraordinary facade designs often present huge challenges not only to the sub-structure but also to the installation.

Whenever standard systems are not sufficient, SYSTEA offers tailored special solutions in order to make even the most spectacular building envelopes and facades possible. The architectural project “The Wave” (Vejle, Denmark) has received a number of awards and is a supreme example from the well-known architects‘ practice Henning Larsen. We were faced here with securing the flowing roof and facade construc-tions clad with tiles, which transition into one another safely and at the same time with an ambitious visual appearance.

A further prime example of outstanding architecture is “Le vaisseau de verre” designed by the star architect Frank Gehry for the Fondation Louis Vuitton (Paris, France). The extraordi-nary cubature of the building, with no wall being the same as the other, presents the highest demands on the sub-structure. Through close co-operation with all parties participating in this project, SYSTEA was also able to make a contribution at the early stages of design to ideas not just remaining ideas.