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... STUDYING |
Kourou, French Guiana The Elie Castor Secondary School in Kourou has over 800 pupils divided into four training paths installed in separate buildings. The
80-place boarding section residence, the sports hall and the administrative services are also in independent buildings. The Guiana Regional
Council wished to build an attractive, functional and scalable school integrating the current environmental quality requirements and
meeting the thermal and climatic standards. Since the local climate is equatorial, the temperature remains constant at around 26° but very
humid. The louvers and fixed slats are ideal architectural solutions for ventilating the premises while preventing intrusion. The architects
wished to differentiate their project by the use of frames with remarkable visual appeal and which respect the specification and its very
stringent safety and resistance requirements. They therefore chose the SAFETYLINE Jalousie Louvers which also have the advantage
of being available up to 1400 mm wide as standard, which allowed them to base the ornamental feature of their project on 1350 mm
frames. Owner: French Guiana Regional Council. |
... WORLD |
Attijari Bank, Tunis, Tunisia The new head office of the Attijari Bank will shortly host its 1400 staff in bright and open premises on open-plan platforms. The project
consists of two buildings of around 30 m in height (Ground floor+7) adjacent to a low central building and with a total surface area of 35000
m². The programme also includes a gym, a restaurant, a sociocultural space and a multi-purpose conference hall. The convivial working
environment appears to be one of the major challenges of this project designed by Moncef Debabi, the Tunis architect and lecturer at the
National School of Architecture and Urbanism in Tunis and the Moroccan architect Aziz Lazrak. This environment is inseparable from
light: "right from the project's design phase we wanted to create a totally transparent structure, open to the exterior, and with this transparency
also found in the interior with open-plan offices" confides Moncef Debabi as if he wished to eliminate all separation between exterior
and interior by designing buildings consisting of simple concrete slabs surrounded by an integral glass envelope. Owner: Attijari Bank
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The architects Aziz Lazrak and Moncef Debabi |
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... WORKING |
The Simulator Hall of the Lyon Aeronautical Training Centre Each year the Technal Architecture & Aluminium Award rewards the most beautiful architectural projects carried out in collaboration with
an approved Technal-approved aluminium company. The 2011 Award's prize in the "WORK" category was won by the Simulator Hall of
the Lyon Aeronautical Training Centre, a project with a remarkable contemporary design fully in line with the environmental standards.
The rounded shape of the simulator hall illustrates that a contemporary and even daring design is fully compatible with high environmental
quality: the administrative part of the building, insulated by the exterior, is classified VHEP (Very High Energy Performance). Architecture agency: AT'LAS ARCHITECTES |
... RENOVATION |
Museo del Ladrillo, La Plata, Argentina Here, earth, water, air and fire have together fashioned brick for almost a century. Today, aluminium and glass add slim lines and transparency
of volumes to these natural elements to transform the Ctibor family brickworks into an emblematic museum of contemporary art:
the Museo del Ladrillo (Brick Museum).
Owner: Fundacion Espacio CTIBOR |
... EVOLUTION |
Occultation + Ventilation = Safetyline Jalousie Louver The SAFETYLINE Jalousie Louver system is one of Technal's historic products which has contributed to the brand's worldwide renown
thanks to its exceptional design and excellent technical performance. The SAFETYLINE Jalousie Louver is destined both for the tertiary
sector (offices, schools, secondary schools, hospitals, etc.) and the private residential sector, it gave its reputation to this occultation and
ventilation frame which is very popular with architects like Sylvia Lafontaine who used the product on the Kourou Secondary School in
French Guiana (see article STUDYING). The SAFETYLINE Jalousie Louver can be installed: • in frames with window unit, • in frames with surface-mounted mosquito net on the fixed frame The SAFETYLINE Jalousie Louver is ideal for large frames: up to a width of 1400 mm as standard. |
... GREEN
Technal innovates and wins the Batimat 2011 Technal and the Jacques Ferrier Architectures agency joined
forces with the backing of ADEME, the French public agency
responsible for developing energy management, environmental
management and ecodesign. This research resulted in the
presentation of an innovative design on the Technal stand at
Batimat: the folding facade with photovoltaic glazing a Batimat
Innovation Award (silver medal). |
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... EVENTS |
Technal boosts its brand awareness through Trade Fairs Technal takes part in most of the trade fairs in countries where the brand is present. It adapts the choice of products presented, the stand
design and the event's communication to the market concerned. This reactivity and flexibility of the brand is illustrated by two examples:
the Glasstech Asia Exhibition which takes place each year in a South East Asian country and Archibat which is held in the Ivory Coast. Return to the African continent with the 3rd Archibat Exhibition in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. ADS (Aluminium Distribution Systèmes), Technal's exclusive distributor for this country, presented on its stand the products which the company keeps permanently in stock: doors, the TOPAZE sliding and casement windows and patio doors, the GYPSE balustrade and the single glazing GEODE curtain wall. For Ludovic Joubert, ADS General Manager, "our presence at this exhibition has allowed us to multiply the contacts with the future customers and reinforce the Technal brand and its distributor ADS in the market. Over 300 visitors signed our Guestbook and 900 visitors took our brochure! With products perfectly adapted to the regional context, Technal is destined to become a major player in the construction industry, and all the more so because economic life is returning to normal and because there are initial signs of projects restarting." An optimism shared by Guillaume Koffi, Chairman of the Architects' Association who visited the stand and took part in the Technal presentation seminar organised by Ludovic Joubert. "Around sixty professionals, architects, entrepreneurs and also project owners and principal contractors listened with interest to this presentation with Lionel Journé, Technal International Manager and Sébastien Briand, Technal Manager Africa." |
At Archibat, from the left to the right: Lionel Journé, Sébastien Briand, Guillaume Koffi, Ludovic Joubert and Pierrick Caitucoli (Technal International Design Department Manager). |
The Technal booth at Glasstech Asia |
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