Location | Senftenberg, Germany |
Completion date |
2010 |
Architects |
Biko Birkigt Planen + Unberwachen |
Glass laminator |
Thiele Glas Werk GmbH |
Featured product | Vanceva™ Color PVB interlayers |
Photo credit | © Steffen Haufe |
Expansion plans for this nearly 120 year-old school building provided architect Heico Gensheimer with an opportunity to bring both light and color into a previously conservative space. The installed glass façade strikes a delicate balance between conventional schoolhouse architecture and modern design, resulting in a complex, but aesthetically pleasing overall structure. Friendly and engaging, the new school building ensures a good mood for every child and adult who enters the building.
Color can convey many emotions to people depending on how it is perceived, and the brightly hued panels of glass in this building shift not only with perception but also with the time of day. Early in the morning, the glass sparkles with sunshine; late at night, the colors glow softly like candlelight. Yellow and oranges tones created by combinations of two to four Vanceva color interlayers for laminated glass effectively brighten the space and evoke the warmth of sunlight even on cloudy days. Moreover, the selected colors bring instant recognition and brand value to the school.
The Vanceva colors interlayer system enhances the style of laminated safety glass like never before—combining color and white interlayers to produce more than 69,000 transparent, translucent, or solid colored glass combinations - creating just the right look and ambience. In fact, no other PVB interlayer system offers the ability to achieve the range of colors and varied translucency in glass that Vanceva does.