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Magazine for Architecture, Design, Retailer, Trade
Movement Live with passion, build with vitality
The wheel – symbol of movement Hawa sports movement What do you find moving?
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You are what moves us! «Movement» is the principle theme of this sec ond edition of SLIDE. Whether movement of the physique or physical movement, whether peo ple are moved at a social, political or emotional level is immaterial: movement turns people into living creatures. Life is movement.
Jean Tinguely «Standstill does not exist.»
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And Hawa AG moves. For instance doors and gates. We don’t only want to move objects but people, too. Wherever doors and windows are quick and easy to open and partition walls are quick and easy to slide is where people can open up new living, thinking and working space for themselves and for others. Dynamic rooms support a dynamic state of being – «dynamics» is nothing other than the «science of force and movement». We always pose two central questions when ever we develop new sliding hardware systems: what do our customers want to move, and what do they find moving? Thus, you are what moves Hawa AG. We will be delighted if you find some impetus here and there as you browse through our magazine. And we will be just as delighted to receive impetus from you. After all, we want to be moved by your input!
Gregor and Heinz Haab Managing Directors Hawa AG Sliding Hardware Systems
Subject The wheel Slow Motion Rapid Motion What do you find moving? Cognitive movement in day-to-day working life «Standstill does not exist.» Mobility and architecture People and rooms on the move
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Projects Gate and Goooaal! Allianz Arena Munich Stade de Suisse Bern Letzigrund Zurich
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Know-how Living walls LSG – Clamp sockets not required HAWA-Purolino 80: Elegant side-effects HAWA-Motus 150/H-matic: 30 metres of disappearing wall Product News Agenda, Personal 2 slide No. 2
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The wheel No other invention has influenced the advancement of mankind more
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Gate and Goooaal! Multi-functional stadiums from star architects for football stars
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Clamp sockets not required Laminated safety glass: screws instead of clamps
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The wheel No other invention has influenced the advancement of mankind more than the wheel. It has conquered a thousand areas of application and has become a symbol of movement, mobility and development. Let’s turn back the wheel of history.
Scarab is the name of the little beetle that lives in Mediterranean countries, in Africa and Asia Minor, feeding off the droppings of her bivores. The lively, six-legged creature moves its food in a very intelligent manner: it forms it into a ball twenty times its weight and three times its size and then rolls it to a hiding place with its hind legs. Humans also discovered, once upon a time, that roll resistance is many hundreds of times less than the loss of energy through friction. The slaves of Egyptian pharaohs were no doubt grateful that they were able to drag the stone blocks for the burial chambers up the ramps on tree trunks instead of having to carry them up – the heaviest blocks weighed in at 50 tonnes.
The hub of the earth 1,400 years prior to the construction of the pyramids man invented the brilliant linking element that would turn the roller into a multifunctional means of transport: the axle. It turned rollers into wheels, dragging into cart ing, carts into carriages, paths into lanes,
lanes into roads and ruts into tracks as every thing revolved around the wheel. These wheels included the ship’s wheel, steering wheel, spinning wheel, milling wheel, cog wheel and, in the worst of all cases, the wheel of torture.
The German word for the connection be tween axle and wheel is «Nabe» (from the German Nabel, in English navel), whilst the English term is hub (German: Drehscheibe). The wheel is the world’s navel and hub as man uses it to experience his sur-round-ings.
First, the wheel moved materials, then it moved mankind. Carriage wheels turned on land, paddle wheels and marine propellers in water, airscrew and later jet engines in the air. Windmills and water wheels harvested energy. Belts and connecting rods transferred it from one wheel to another. Then came the flywheel that stored energy and the centrifuge that utilised centrifugal forces.
Forwards!
On the move Clock movements turned hands, typewriters conserved information transmitted by tele printers and multiplied by rotational printing machines, and all these devices were full of wheels big and small, in short: man and his life were on the move and still are to this day.
The penny-farthing In the days before the invention of gears the front wheel was made bigger to enable faster speeds. The penny-farthing became popular after the world exhibition of 1867 in Paris. The front wheel had a height of 125 cm, so getting on and off was no easy task, and what started as a braking manoeuvre often ended with the rider flying over the handlebars. Daredevils took part in races with speeds of up to 25 mph, and fatal accidents were no seldom occurrence. 4 slide No. 2
When George Stephenson’s first locomotive puffed along the tracks at 25 mph in 1829, doctors warned that humans were not de signed to withstand such murderous speeds. Since then, however, the wheel has accelerat ed the rhythm of life in modern society to breath-taking speeds. Not only in Charlie Chaplin’s «Modern Times» do clockworks never stand still. Chaplin insinuated that man was not cut out for the break-neck speed of modern life. Now, seventy years after Modern Times, to «have time» is considered a luxury. Anyone who can afford to withdraw from machines and con veyor belts to enjoy moments of contempla tion and to find himself again is deemed a wealthy person.
The roles of the wheel Anyone wanting to escape the machine needs to be flexible, both mentally and physically. Experts recommend taking a walk through nature after work instead of sitting down in front of yet another screen, and enjoying a trip to the seaside at the weekend instead of burying one’s nose in study books. Changing the immediate environment is a lot easier when not only man but also his sur roundings are flexible. And this is where the wheel plays a role. In the form of plastic roll ers. They allow doors, walls and façade ele ments to slide from side to side. Man can give rooms and buildings new looks and new functions with just a few hand movements. Modern Times as they should be. The high-tech rollers in sliding hardware sys tems do nothing more than wheels and rollers have done for thousands of years: they pro vide movement and flexibility and open up new rooms and perspectives. Thus, we have come full circle. The scarab is still rolling hap pily. Because it makes things easier.
The power wheel The rollers of the HAWA-Junior 160 sliding hardware each weigh 60 g; they are 31.5 mm wide and have a diameter of 54 mm. They are made of polyoximethylene, a white plastic characterised by very high stability, rigidity, abrasion resis tance and temperature resistance. HAWA-Junior 160 slides doors and partition walls smoothly and easily. In the best family tradition of sliding hardware from Hawa. And around the world. slide No. 2 5
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Slow Motion
No one has ever felt the slowest movement on Earth, yet it affects us all and already left its traces long before man was able to prove its existence with the high-precision «Global Positioning System», or GPS: the movement of the Earth’s tectonic plates. 10 cm per year is the greatest speed they reach. The tectonic plates of Europe and North America are drifting apart. Hot lava rises from cracks in the bed of the Atlantic and cools down. This adds to the expanse of seabed – around two square kilometres each year across the globe. The fault between the tectonic plates of Africa and Arabia runs from Syria to Mozambique and has given rise to a number of volcanic mountain ranges formed by hot magma, including Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa’s highest mountain.
Mountain fish The tectonic plates of the Pacific and North America rub shoulders along the St. Andreas fault in California. In 1906 the pressure that had built up between the plates displaced them within seconds by six metres and triggered an earthquake that destroyed the city of San Francisco. Los Angeles and San Francisco are currently moving closer together at a rate of six centimetres per year. 6 slide No. 2
The Alps, Europe’s highest mountain range, grow upwards by about one millimetre each year, pushed up by the continental plates of Africa and Europe as they move closer together. The rock formations of the Alps once lay at sea level, as proven by the discovery of sea fossils in the mountains. 80 different species of fish were discovered at Monte San Giorgio in Tessin alone.
UNESCO world natural heritage The infrared image shows the «main upcast» of the tectonic arena named Sardona in the Swiss canton of Glarus. In 2008 UNESCO declared the area a part of the world natural heritage as the tectonic pressure at this point has pushed an older rock bed onto a younger rock bed. The Martinsloch, a hole of 15 metres in width at 2,600 metres above sea level, is proof of these upcasts of rock. When the villagers of Elm built a church in the year 1500 they chose the location with careful aforethought: for a few days each spring and winter the sun shines through the Martinsloch for a couple of minutes each day, setting the church tower ablaze in its light. Moving.
Twice a year the sun shines through the Martinsloch onto the church tower of Elm.
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Rapid Motion
Big bangs in Switzerland! The fastest movement in the world is in preparation: a crash between atomic particles. Their speed is just slightly less than the speed of light. The circular tunnel of the European laboratory for particle physics, CERN, measures 27 kilometres in length and is located 100 metres beneath the Earth’s surface near Geneva in Switzerland. 2,500 employees research matter on site, whilst 8,400 physicists around the world dock in to use the laboratory facility. The steel pipes running through the tunnel are cooled on the inside to minus 271 degrees centigrade and contain a virtually complete vacu um. Ideal conditions to shoot atomic particles, or protons, into one another on a collision course. The particle accelerator’s powerful mag nets will accelerate the protons to a velocity close to the speed of light. When they collide energy is transformed into mass, thus creating new particles. These particles only exist for an extremely short period of time. The crash is intended to prove the existence of the hypothetical Higgs Bosom, to which elementary particles owe their mass – at least in theory. Four giant detectors working like cameras will shoot 40 million «pho tos» per second. That is the equivalent of 200,000 DVDs. Per second. A network of 200 small and 11 large computer centres in 35 countries will provide the necessary computing power, whereby the connections between the large centres work at 10,000 times the speed of an ADSL connection. By the way, the World Wide Web is also an «inven tion» by CERN. If the experiment is successful it will be the fastest ever movement generated by human hands. 8 slide No. 2
The circular CERN tunnel is protected at the point where the particles will collide by a three-layer shell made of silicone elements. For a few fractions of a second they will have to withstand extreme radiation and an intense magnetic field.
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What do you find moving? An enterprise can grow successfully when it moves people as well as inanimate objects. And only people who themselves are moved are able to move others. People in different countries work for the internationally active Hawa AG. What do they find moving? A personal question – with personal answers.
«I need just three words to an swer the question of what I find moving: pursuit of happiness. This includes my parent’s happiness, success in my work, watching a film like ‹The Godfather› or ‹The Gladiator› – and many other things. They all belong to the pur suit of happiness.»
Adeeb Ghazal (1969) Dubai 10 slide No. 2
«I find horses deeply moving. They tell us of power, freedom and absolute elegance. I have been riding horses for many years and I breed them, too. There is nothing better for my family than the birth of a foal. We find it fasci nating to transform a ‹wild› spirit into a trusting friend. Having to watch an animal transporter take horses to an abattoir is awful.»
Brigitte Klanatsky (1958) Central and South America
«Movement is everyday life, of body and mind. Human activities and functions are connected to movement. These activities include, for instance, eating, reading and walking as well as functions such as those of the cardiovascular and digestive systems.»
«My love of nature and the animal world that surrounds us is some thing I find very moving. For me there is nothing better than taking a walk in the forest, the moun tains or along the coast to please the eye. The family I have founded with my wife, my son and my two daughters is what moves me and gives me support. Every day I get up and focus on improving their future, well-being and security. It is in my nature and something I find moving.»
Ulrich Kraus (1966)
Patrick Huet (1959)
Germany
France
«One particularly moving experi ence is for me the moment when the doors to the arrivals area at the airport slide open after a long and intensive business trip and everything starts to move. Old friends embrace each other, mothers and fathers hug sons and daughters, grandparents smile at their families waiting with flowers whilst lovers hold and kiss one another; it is a moment filled with joy, happiness and warmth, offering us an invitation to briefly forget the humdrum of everyday life.»
«Movement is development. To develop oneself is to adapt to change. For millions of years humans have adapted to their circumstances. I am developing, too; in my way of thinking, acting, how I behave. Every one of us is moved by something. I have two wonderful children who give me love and happiness, but I do not like to see other children suffer. We help many children in Africa for whom we have built a house, and we give them the basic es sentials so they can go to school and form their own future. We look after five children, but we are also helping a young man at uni versity and six other children in the same village to become inde pendent. The success with which we offer these children a future – and help a continent that is both rich and very sick – is very satis fying for us.»
«I find my daughter Eva very mov ing. She fills me with joy and makes me happy. When I am with her I can switch off, relax and enjoy enriching moments. She is invaluable as far as I am con cerned. There is nothing better than when your child looks at you and tells you he or she loves you. Eva has shown me who I am and why I am here. She is my inspira tion and motivation in everything I do; she is my ideal. I would never have thought a child could bring me so much happiness. I will put my heart and soul into making sure she receives the best qualifications for a success ful life.»
Peter Riexinger (1957)
Andreas Deimböck (1975)
Geert Lesage (1957)
Fabrice Tallone (1975)
Germany
Austria
Belgium
France
«For me, movement is life. With out movement everything is noth ing. Movement at work lies in the drive to be successful, the search for new tasks and projects and the path to realisation. Movement in my private life is the balance to my working life. I like it when I can watch animals in their natural surroundings, and when the wind rustles the leaves of a tree. Hear ing the heartbeat of a loved one when all else is silent is just as beautiful. That is why I think movement and life belong on the same level.»
«I find my daughter «For me as a father it has to be my two-year-old son that moves me more than anything. To see him grow and watch him learning so many different things day by day is unbelievably satisfying. Chatting with him or doing a puzzle together on the floor and experiencing his joy is the most moving thing in the world.»
«I find the energy and strength of people who give their lives to helping needy children and adults who lack the bare essentials they need to live very moving. The in nocent gaze of a grateful child is their wage. It is this charity that moves us deep in our souls and contributes towards a better world.»
«I thought long and hard about the question as to what I find moving. Many things came to mind. And I felt that the family is most important of all – and my responsibility for them.»
María Malagrino (1981)
Jaimon Joseph (1971)
Joakim Andersson (1975)
Central and South America
Dubai
Scandinavia
Eva very moving. She fills me with joy and makes me happy.»
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Cognitive movement in day-to-day working life We know nearly everything about the movement of the body yet very little about the movement of the mind. However, anyone who knows the main facts about brain waves and knows and exploits the highs and lows occurring throughout the day will be both more relaxed and more productive at work.
Professional and amateur sportsmen and women know when they need to look after their body to enable it to perform at its peak at the decisive moment. The same applies to mental activity. One has to know one’s head, too. Dr. Verena Steiner, biochemist from Zurich and international visiting professor for learning, thinking and working strategies, has divided the agility and flexibility of the mind throughout the day into a number of phases: alpha state, primetime, and up and down phases.
Alpha-phase – light A person who is waking up or going to sleep is in the alpha state. He is very relaxed but awake. His mind moves of its own accord, it drifts and is full of creativity and imagination. Ideas and answers come rushing in, associa tions form links, problems are solved, and for mulations desperately sought for hours only yesterday suddenly come to mind. «Sleep on it», as the saying goes. And: «Everything will look different in the morning.» Anyone taking their time to wake up slowly in the morning, whilst gently but consciously contemplating a problem, can sometimes achieve as much «work» in this alpha-phase
with no effort as would otherwise take half an afternoon. Artists, creative spirits and authors confirm that their best work is often accom plished in the morning.
Primetime – efficient The mind is wide awake, agile and focused during the hours before midday. This is the perfect time for concentrated, ambitious work and logical-rational thinking. Motivation, selfdiscipline and resistance to stress are high. This is the time when unpleasant and deferred tasks are handled more efficiently and con structively.
ternoon: short-notice plans, routine tasks, simple meetings. It is often followed by an early evening high suitable for anything that places demands on the long-term memory, such as preparing a speech or learning. Manual work also turns out well – many peo ple type fastest around this time of day.
Stop & Start Anyone working continuously at top speed will collapse sooner or later. Only regular stops enable fresh starts. It is important to observe your own performance curve, the agility of your mind throughout the day and to find your own rhythm.
Down-phase It is often around about lunchtime when brain wave frequency drops and one becomes tired. So: answer those e-mails (only now!) and deal with routine tasks. Eat lunch or en gage in movement during the subsequent midday slump. Anyone who can afford a nap will also afford himself an additional alpha wake-up phase. Winston Churchill, who actu ally went to bed in the afternoons, called it «Turning a day into a day and a half».
Up-phase The mind begins to move again during the af
Many other influencing factors also demand due consideration. These include your sleep ing-waking balance, coffein consumption, eating and activity behaviour, chronotype, jet lag, handling orderliness, handling small personal rituals and, last but not least, your mood. The latter often has a significant influ ence on the «energy state» – and therefore on the agility and movement of the mind. Source: Energy – Energiekompetenz, Verena Steiner, published by Droemer Knaur, 2005
Anyone who knows the highs and lows occurring throughout the day is both more relaxed and more productive at work.
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Brain waves Brain waves are always on the move, regard less of whether a person is asleep or awake. Doctors can observe them by means of «elec troencephalography», or EEG for short. They can be divided into four rough categories:
Delta state brain waves have a frequency of four Hertz or less. Body and mind regenerate themselves during deep, dreamless sleep.
relaxed, the mind moves as if of its own accord – and can often accomplish great feats.
The theta state is accompanied by dozing or dreaming, and light brain activity supports creativity and intuition.
During the daytime beta state, people are wide awake and relaxed, attentive and concentrated at 20 Hertz, stressed and confused at 30 Hertz, and at 40 Hertz they are in a state of frantic tension and hardly able to think rationally and process infor mation.
Brain wave frequency during the alpha state, i.e. when going to sleep or waking up, lies at around seven to fourteen Hertz; the body is
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«Standstill does not exist.» Works of art can move on both an emotional and mechanical level. Two Swiss representatives of «kinetic art» are Jean Tinguely, artist of world renown – and Paul Gugelmann, as yet virtually unknown. Jean Tinguely gained international recognition through his motorised mechanical plastics made out of scrap and other things he found. Born in 1925 and raised in Basel, he painted, staged and constructed his substantial work until his death in 1991; most of his pieces can be found in Europe. Tinguely roughed up the «static» art world with his moving art during the fifties and sixties as part of the Parisian Avant-garde. He created many sculptures and happenings in collaboration with Bern hard Luginbühl or his second wife, Niki de Saint Phalle. The Tinguely Museum in Basel, designed by architect Mario Botta, was opened in 1996. www.tinguely.ch
«Everything moves. Standstill does not exist. Do not allow yourselves to be ruled by antediluvian concepts of time. Away with the hours, seconds and minutes! Stop resisting change! BE IN TIME, BE STATIC, BE STATIC – WITH THE MOVEMENT. For static in the present is happening NOW. Resist your fearful feeble spells to stop movement, turn moment into stone and kill that which lives.» Excerpt from Jean Tinguely’s «Manifest für Statik», printed on flyers he threw from a plane over Düsseldorf in 1959.
«I started to use movement simply as a means of re-creation. It was a chance to change the picture – with the help of the physical and mechanical movement I had developed as a means of autonomous expression – to the extent that it becomes endless. Movement made it possible to create things that previously did not exist in the field of sculpturing.» Jean Tinguely
Jean Tinguely with his second wife Niki de Saint Phalle.
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Paul Gugelmann In 1951, Bally sent 22-year-old shoe designer and graphic artist Paul Gugelmann to Paris. There, he set up a creative studio for the noble Swiss shoe brand, designed collections for Bally, and also worked with and for Dior, Givenchy, Nina Ricci and Pacco Rabanne. 18 years later Gugelmann was appointed head of product design (Directeur Artistique) at Bally. In his free time Gugelmann created moving «poetic machines» powered by steam, electricity or clockwork motors. Paul Gugel mann worked for the public domain; he never sold his poetic machines to private collectors despite offers worth millions. The Gugelmann Museum, located in an old house in the Swiss town of Schönenwerd and renovated and run by volunteers of the Gugelmann Trust and Society, was opened in 1995.
«Sounds are very important to me. I usually implement them right at the end, if necessary using technical means, for instance thin strips of metal that touch against cogwheels and make a rattling sound like a saw. The sounds must match the piece and its movements.» Paul Gugelmann (from «Paul Gugelmann – Maschinen im Kopf», Verlag Hier + Jetzt)
«What Jean Tinguely and I have in common is that our machines work. As a rule. His works are simpler from a constructional viewpoint. And they are more abstract. I need to have a lot of detail, my machines contain secrets. I want them to be more poetic.» Paul Gugelmann
www.gugelmann-museum.ch
Paul Gugelmann
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Mobility and architecture – landscape and plans A mobile society is architecture’s strongest driving force. The railways of the 19th century and the roads of the 20th have shaped each country – as well as how its inhabitants live and their way of life.
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It was the railway that formed the large cities and the axes between them on which com merce and industry settled. Cities reinforced their gates with mighty railway stations. After the Second World War the car soon became a part of everyday life. It challenged architec ture and received the highway in return. The highways of Switzerland are the largest single construction in the country’s history and are the foundations of its self-image, its face to the world and its way of life: urban agglomeration. They find architectural expres sion in the industrial charm of the factory, warehouse and commercial structures lining the highways as well as in the residential buildings that have transformed landscapes into widely scattered patchwork quilts, and still continue to do so. A home in the countryside – the dream of many Western Europeans – would be incon ceivable without the highway. It is both an architectural expression and a consequence of virtually unlimited social, cultural and tech nological mobility. And it is greedy: road construction consumes one square metre of Switzerland per second, day and night. Thirty years ago there was – at least in Swit zerland – a renaissance of the railway: today, Bahn 2000 (Train 2000) connects town to town whilst commuter trains link the suburbs to the city centres. In addition to the monu mental architecture of stations and railway routes, commuter trains have also shaped residential areas – urban dwellers move into their dream houses along the routes carved into the countryside by the railway.
Plans carved in stone Switzerland was a society conscious of tradi tion until well into the 20th century. Tradition and custom determined the way lives were
lived and how buildings were built. The plans of family dwellings, for instance, were carved in stone: a large parlour and a small dining room, a closed-off kitchen as a small worksta tion, a large master bedroom for the parents and small bedrooms for the children. Each room separated from the other and all con nected via a corridor. Eighty square metres as a good measure for the respectable dweller. Tradition and custom continued to dictate the layout of single-family dwellings in the New World for many years. And anyone who had to remain a rent-paying tenant – to this day the vast majority – had to live as the investor, the architect and landlord saw fit. Indeed, why should these people risk contradicting tradi tion and custom to possibly end up with no tenants at all? Until the Seventies there was never any reason to believe designs other
became increasingly less compatible with the roles of men, women and children. The openplan kitchen with a cooking island instead of a small, closed-off kitchen was made possible by consumer power and directness. Instead of dining room and parlour, a living room with large windows, divisible with folding partition walls. Instead of a shower stall, a bathroom as a stage for everyday grooming; instead of rooms large and small, as much open-plan as possible, separated by non-supporting walls and changeable at a whim. These changes are seen not only in upmarket living spaces in single family dwellings or condominiums but also more recently in rented apartments. Mobility has therefore moved on from cars and trains into our living spaces and is now found in the dreams of building owners and the plans of architects.
Strict floor plans became increasingly less compatible with the roles of men, women and children. than the familiar could become popular or even definitive for the construction of housing.
Mobile people live differently But then things happened very quickly: on the one hand a massive increase in prosperity raised the demands of many with regard to their living space – eighty square metres were no longer enough for those who had become upwardly mobile, the successful movers and shakers of a society based on the provision of services. One hundred and twenty square metres were the bare minimum. On the other hand, cultural and social unrest demanded accessibility and openness. Strict floor plans
Köbi Gantenbein is Editor in Chief of Hoch parterre, the Swiss magazine for architecture and design. He is mobile – he lives and works in Zurich and in Fläsch in the canton of Graubünden. Without a car but very comfortably thanks to train and bus. www.hochparterre.ch
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People and rooms on the move At the end of 2008 people living in cities outnumbered those living in rural areas for the first time ever. Population pressure is forcing city planners around the world to more compact constructions. Sliding solutions belong to the central elements of these construction methods.
There are 437 agglomerations around the world with populations of more than a million people. Tokyo-Yokohama is currently the world’s largest city and home to 34 million inhabitants. Ac cording to UNO calculations, the number of mega-cities, i.e. cities of more than 10 million inhabitants, will rise to 29 by 2020. Cities are expanding with particular speed in the emerg ing countries of Asia and Africa. Migration to cities and a high birth rate are major contribu tions, as is the mobility of workers: Kyrgyzstan has 6 million inhabitants, 800,000 of whom work abroad. Three quarters of the 900,000 citizens living in the Arab Emirate of Qatar are mainly immigrant workers from Asia. Around one thousand Germans settled in Zurich every month during 2008. Many of these immigrant workers take up temporary residency.
overloaded, environmental pollution is increas ing and waste disposal is problematic. Archi tects have adopted compact construction as an important approach to finding a solu tion: a more intensive utilisation of the space available will lower the consumption of land and energy resources. The more dynamic a room’s design, the more intensive its utilisation can be. There are more than enough examples. In 2009, German fu turologist Matthias Horx constructed a «Future Evolution House» near Vienna and, as de scribed in his Trend Report of 2008, aligned its design completely to suit family mobility, as «work and private life, occupation and lei sure time merge ever more seamlessly».
Living in 39 m2 Compact construction Big cities need to solve big problems. Land and energy resources are becoming scarce, transport routes are long, traffic junctions are
The size of room units in the «Townhouse Project N7» in Berlin, a house built on a nar row plot of width just 6.5 m, can be scaled up or down at any time – c.fischer innenarchi
tekten in Berlin made exclusive use of floor- to-ceiling doors made of glass or wood on all of the building’s eight floors. The mobile dwelling unit named «Loftcube», with which designer Werner Aisslinger of Berlin wants to create new living space on top of high-rise buildings, measures just 39 m2 and includes bathroom and kitchen. Aisslinger also uses various sliding elements to enable the rooms in the Loftcube to fulfil various uses.
Less traffic Every third employee in the USA fulfils at least 20% of his workload at locations other than his actual workplace. This is facilitated on the one hand by information technology and, on the other, by the ability to transform living space quickly and easily into working space. Thus, compact constructions with multi-func tional rooms also help to reduce the volume of traffic. Architects and city planners alike real ise that it is much easier to move walls than people.
The more dynamic a room’s design, the more intensive its utilisation can be.
Microcosm shopping centre The leisure and shopping centre «Westside» by architect Daniel Libeskind, which opened in Berne in 2008, houses shops, restaurants, eleven cinema screens, a wellness and water park, a fitness park and a hotel/congress centre. The restaurant and shop concepts of today are changing ever more rapidly, and designs for rooms in shopping centres need to be flexible enough to accommodate new tenants or functions with as little expense and effort as possible.
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Sliding creates space: floor-to-ceiling sliding doors in Townhouse Project N7 in Berlin (above and below right), sliding elements in Werner Aisslinger’s mobile dwelling unit «Loftcube».
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Projects
Gate and Goooaal! Modern sport arenas raise financing through sponsoring and the utilisation of commercial service areas. It is not only stars who move to and fro in the stadiums of renowned football clubs but also sliding hardware from Hawa.
Significant sporting events without sponsor ing are meanwhile unthinkable. And we have become used to the fact that many sport stadiums no longer bear the name of their club or city: football clubs Bayern Munich and TSV 1860 decided before construction started in 2002 to transfer the right to their stadium’s name to the Allianz insurance group – initially until 2021. The Colonial Stadium, opened in the Australian city of Melbourne in 2000, was renamed Telstra Dome in 2002. As of beginning March 2009 its name will be: Etihad Stadium – named after the airline of the United Arab Emirates, Etihad.
Both complexes were built by Swiss building contractor Bruno Marazzi, who has promoted the idea of multi-functional sports arenas for many years. Experience proves him right: projects with «commercial service areas» en joy generous planning and approval.
Utilising commercial service areas can con tribute towards lowering the costs of running a sports arena: a club whose stadium offers commercial service areas in the form of at tractive shopping, office and living space will find that the stadium can more or less pay for itself from the rental income.
The best service providers offering the best products also benefit from the new quality awareness. That is why the experts for wood, glass and metal installations like working with Hawa hardware, as they have done in Basel, Bern and Geneva. Five different systems are in use at the Stade de Genève.
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25,000 people enter the Stade de Suisse Bern every day to go to work, the shops, the hair dressers, the doctors, the convention centre or even to go to school. The St. Jakob-Park Basel, designed by the Herzog & de Meuron team of architects, even contains an old peo ple’s residence.
Hawa hardware is also found on the inside of sports arenas, first and foremost in the VIP and box areas, as in the Etihad Stadium in Melbourne, for instance, where HAWA-Super 250/G moves nine heavy sliding glass walls with ease in a number of boxes. The HAWA-Shopfront 400/G is installed in the home stadium of PSV Eindhoven, and a HAWACombitec 150/GA has opened the sliding glass wall of the President’s Lounge at Locomotive Moscow since 2001. A HAWA-Variotec 150/GR slides to and fro in the Werder Bremen arena, whilst a HAWAVariotec 150/GV does the same at Ajax Amsterdam. In a nutshell: Hawa AG is part of the team in sport stadiums and their shopping centres. And whilst top quality players slide balls into the net, top quality hardware systems slide the doors and walls. Perhaps not quite as spectacular, but certainly more reliably.
Allianz Arena Munich, FCB Performance Centre Opened in: 2005 Cost: 340 million Euro Operator: FC Bayern München AG Architect: Herzog & de Meuron, Basel, Switzerland General contractor: Alpine Bau Deutschland GmbH, Eching, Germany Capacity: 69,901 seats Service areas: 1 restaurant, 28 kiosks, 3 brand shops. Football clubs Bayern München and TSV 1860 each operate a meeting point for fans and a shop. Hawa systems: Cabinetmaker Hans Mittermaier of Pittenhart, Germany, was involved in building the boxes and the FCB performance centre on Säbener Strasse. HAWA-210 Vorfront 50/70 and HAWA-Puro 100 –150 were used. Stade de Suisse Bern, Shopping Center Opened in: 2005 Cost: 350 million Swiss Francs Operator: Nationalstadion AG Architect: Architekten Schwaar & Partner AG, Bern, Switzerland General contractor: Marazzi Generalunternehmung AG, Muri near Bern, Switzerland Capacity: 32,000 seats Service areas: 35 shops, 2 restaurants, 3 schools, 1 fitness and wellness club, 2 health institutes, 1 discotheque, 16 commercial establishments, 1 BSC Young Boys museum Hawa system: Wüthrich Metall- und Glausbau AG of Zollikofen, Switzerland, installed HAWA-Variotec 150/GV hardware in the shopping centre. slide No. 2 21
Projects
Letzigrund Zurich Opened: 2008 Cost: CHF 125 million Swiss Francs Operator: Sport authority of the city of Zurich Architect: Bétrix & Consolascio, Erlenbach, Switzerland, in cooperation with Eric Maier, Zurich, Switzerland, Frei & Ehrensperger, Zurich, Switzerland General contractor: Implenia Generalunternehmung AG, Dietlikon, Switzerland Capacity: 28,700 seats for track and field events 30,000 seats for football matches Room for concert audiences of 50,600 both standing and seated Service areas: 1 restaurant, 18 food stalls in the vicinity Hawa system: HAWA-Super 500/B in the VIP area 22 slide No. 2
Letzigrund Zurich: 24 world records «World Class Zurich», the world’s most highly-paid athletics meeting, provides world records on a regular basis. The architecture of the multi-sports arena Letzigrund, where the sporting stars perform, is also world class.
Asafa Powell ran the 100 metre race in 9.77 seconds at the «World Class Zurich» in August 2006. It was the 24th world record in the 81-year history of «World Class Zurich». The excavators outside the stadium had long since been busy. The new stadium was inau gurated just 13 months later, and 22 months later fans in the Letzigrund stadium saw Italy kick France out of the European Cup. 100 m and 200 m world record holder Usain Bolt also intends to start at the «World Class Zurich 2009». Sports organisation Swiss Athletics wants to host the 2014 European Athletics Championship in Zurich. The new Letzigrund stadium will no doubt write sport ing history. More a sculpture than a building, opined Swiss magazine for architecture, Hochpar
terre, not an arena but a dried-out crater lake, and: «The roof is captivating, an artistic tour de force, born of the spirit of steel construction.» The general reaction of visitors to the multisports arena was fantastic, and Letzigrund stadium won the «Prix Acier 2007», awarded every two years by the Swiss Steel-working Centre (Stahlbau Zentrum Schweiz) for outstanding steel constructions. The jury found the walkable gallery, which is covered by a slightly bent and pitched steel roof supported by Corten steel supports, worthy of a special mention. 60 wood construction specialists fitted 23,000 square metres of Hungarian acacia wood held in place by 320,000 screws to the underside of the stadium roof.
Hawa sliding hardware is also in use in the new Letzigrund stadium, namely in the VIP area. At the very top, on the second floor, are ten boxes for eight persons each; their respective tenants like to take part in a five-course dinner on match evenings. Each box has a small terrace which is directly accessible through all-glass sliding doors. «Sliding doors need much less space than pivoting doors», says event coordinator Franc esca Archidiacono by way of explaining the choice. The doors in the box for 25 persons, the largest lounge that offers free view on the main arena, as well as the ones to the security box are equipped with HAWA-Super 500/B hardware – demonstrating maximum airiness and elegance in a minimum of space.
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Living walls Walls are not only becoming more movable but also more emotionally moving: new materials and new production technologies make living, flowing surface structures possible.
Ornamental surface structures made of wood make rooms feel warm – and full of life.
Light emphasises the structures and therefore the mood effused by the room.
The solid surface material Corian moves both bathroom and bathers with its 3-D structures.
The religious beliefs of societies have for cen turies influenced their craftsmanship and architecture. Stucco work, inlays, ornaments and wall coverings were all used to create the image of a better world. This was followed by a phase of creating beauty by concen trating on the bare essentials. Meanwhile, façades stretching beyond the boundaries of unadorned reticence are once again becom ing more commonplace.
herds and flocks of birds via satellite; the microscope uncovers the structure of leaves and ice crystals, and the scanning tunnelling microscope reveals how molecules are arranged. It is thanks to new materials and technology that man can use many of these ornamental reliefs to invigorate aesthetic appeal – in 3-D.
Water, forests, clouds Architects and interior designers, carpenters and plasterers reflect the natural world in expertly arranged repetitive patterns. Nature is the vocabulary of the new language. Man can see dunes, lakes, forests, clouds, animal 24 slide No. 2
There are a number of base materials for three-dimensional surface patterns, for in stance MDF, chipboard/multiplex, laminated solid wood or PUR foam. They can be left un treated or painted, etched, veneered or oiled, depending on function and the light situation at the destination. Many three-dimensional patterned elements made with the solid sur
Bamboo lives: 3-D surfaces provide an effective cladding for wellness areas, lounges, restaurants and all kinds of representative rooms. They can also be used for sliding doors and mobile partition walls in conjunction with the right hardware.
face material Corian are available on the mar ket. Manufacturers such as the virtuell Ver trieb GmbH in the Austrian town of Kirchham or Hasenkopf GmbH in Mehring, Germany, are possible first points of call for craftsmen and architects.
3-D for sliding Many 3-D elements can be used as sliding doors or walls, room partitioners, furniture doors or walk-in wardrobes, as long as the carpenter or designer makes use of the right hardware. However, special rules apply to fitting sliding hardware to 3-D elements. Thick ness and material, for instance, are decisive factors: MDF, beech and bamboo are all very suitable. Thin variants can be reinforced using
a robust and «neutral» base material. 3-D sliding elements made with the solid surface material Corian must consist of three layers (Corian / wood base / Corian) to prevent warping. The maximum width and height of 3-D elements made of Corian depend on thickness and paint. Bonding – if necessary due to the width – is not a problem as the special bonding agent can be sanded when dry to prevent the formation of visible joints.
The right choice Which is the right hardware for the job? HAWA-Junior 40 – 250/B is recommended for sliding doors. Sliding partition walls move best with HAWA-Aperto 60/H, whilst hard ware such as HAWA-Dorado 40/F is the right
choice for bottom-to-top cabinet doors. A whole range of other Hawa hardware systems is also available. Choosing the right hardware depends on the properties, design and size of the 3-D element and its intended use. Hawa AG keeps a watchful eye on trends whilst investigating the technological possibili ties for developing hardware systems for the 3-D designs of the future. The significance of design is increasing at the same rate as the demand for sliding elements. Craftsmen can currently emphasise their experience in handling 3-D designs as a special qualifica tion. But customers will soon consider it a matter of course once 3-D has become established. And we all know that customers choose what they find most moving.
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Know-how
Step 1 Place the two-part glass holder in the opening and drill using the template. This balances tolerances of up to 2 mm maximum.
Three steps to form-fitting hardware:
LSG – Clamp sockets not required Fitting laminated safety glass (LSG) by means of clamp sockets requires a certain amount of practice. But clamp sockets are not necessary.
Until recently, woodworking professionals were reluctant to work with laminated safety glass: delivery times are relatively long, and assembly is more complex. The trend towards LSG has not yet reached every woodworking professional, despite the fact that glaziers meanwhile offer glass panes made to meas ure and pre-drilled. LSG still costs more than other glass types, and an accident during assembly can prove to be expensive. Fitting LSG using clamp sockets is relatively com plex: the clamping pressure must be precisely adjusted as the composite film could other wise easily give way under too much pres sure. 26 slide No. 2
Screws instead of clamps A fitter working with a form-fitting Hawa hard ware system, however, has no need to clamp the glass. He merely needs to screw the glass elements to the Hawa hardware components. This not only does away with a silicone finish but also means that cutting aluminium profiles to length is also no longer necessary in the majority of cases. Form-fitting hardware has another advantage: the glass cannot slip, even if subjected to direct sunlight for many hours over an extended period. When LSG panes are held in place by clamps, it cannot be completely ruled out that the PVB film may become soft under the influence of heat and
give way under the pressure from the clamps, allowing the glass to slip.
LSG for creatives LSG has become a creative design element for many building owners and architects, and manufacturers now decorate their glass products with matt-white or coloured decor foils in a multitude of designs. Small wonder, then, that demand is increasing in parallel with the expanding supply. A development that many will find pleasing, not least the wood working professionals who like to work with LSG and whose wide-ranging competence is appreciated by their customers.
Step 2 Fit the two parts of the form-fitting HAWAJunior GP patch suspension in the glass cutout and screw them together.
Step 3 Slide the square or rounded cover caps of the desired colour on to the patch suspension.
Safety glass panes Dimensions Toughened Safety Glass TSG Toughened safety glass, or TSG, is a heatstrengthened float glass. TSG is more robust than untreated float glass thanks to a combi nation of internal tensile strength and external compression strength. It is the preferred choice of craftsmen and architects for use in showers, doors, walls and furniture.
Craftsmen can find the dimensions for glass cutouts using the HAWA-Productfinder at www.hawa.ch; they are part of the planning and assembly instructions for each type of hardware. The HAWA-Productfinder is always worth a visit: it is the source of information on every Hawa hardware system and includes photos, application examples, technical details and ordering information for each system.
Laminated Safety Glass LSG Laminated safety glass, or LSG, consists of layers of float glass, heat-strengthened glass or TSG with a connecting sheet of tear-proof PVB film in the middle. LSG manufactured from TSG and with seamed edges is used for sliding solutions fitted with Hawa hardware. Whether dining room tables or shop windows: LSG is the right choice wherever high stability and freedom of design are in demand.
The following systems are particularly suitable for use with laminated safety glass made from TSG: HAWA-Puro 100–150 HAWA-Purolino 80 HAWA-Junior 40–80–120–160/GP HAWA-Variotec 150/GV HAWA-Ordena 70 HAWA-Variofold 80/GV HAWA-Centerfold 80/GV
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All-glass sliding doors with no visible hardware appear weightless and make rooms look larger. HAWA-Purolino 80
Elegant side-effects Maximum transparency thanks to invisible technology.
All-glass sliding doors should consist of nothing but glass: nei ther architects nor building own ers want to see any hardware. That is why the suspension and sliding technology behind the new HAWA-Purolino 80 are com pletely concealed in the top track. This has an elegant side-effect for wall-mounted installations: the space between all-glass sliding door and wall is minimal thanks to the lateral position of the trolleys. And an elegant side- effect for ceiling-mounted instal lations: the angled cover profile is an eye-catching cover for the top track on both sides. Profiles with a plain anodised or stainless steel effect finish are available for both variants.
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A surface-mounted top track as an eye-catcher.
below without having to remove ceiling elements.
The right glass As far as glass is concerned, both laminated safety glass (LSG) and toughened safety glass (TSG) are suitable for HAWA-Purolino 80. Thicknesses of 8, 10, 12 or 12.7 mm are possible with the latter, whilst the range for LSG lies between 8 and 13 mm. LSG is the preferred choice of archi tects, interior designers and woodworking professionals want ing to enhance aspects of design, which is precisely where the trend is heading. Both LSG and ESG have a formfitting connection with the HAWAPurolino 80 hardware. It has the
ing or suspended ceiling. Glass is all you see with this solution. A filigree cover profile simply clips on to the bottom of the top track to form the perfect finish. Installing and adjusting the height of the HAWA-Purolino 80 hard ware could not be easier thanks to its patent-pending wedge suspension. The top track is designed to allow access to the concealed components from
The suspension is concealed within the top track.
LSG door with imitation wood film.
same glass drill holes as its big brother, the HAWA-Puro 100 – 150, used for all-glass sliding doors weighing up to 150 kg and with completely concealed suspen sion.
Lockable HAWA-Purolino 80 cuts a good figure not only in private homes but also in hotels, restaurants, holiday complexes, residential buildings and clinics. Doors in these environments need to be lockable. That is why it is easy to integrate a HAWA-Toplock into the sliding door to provide a lockable and secure solution even for doors running in front of walls. Available as of April 2009.
Even large walls slide smoothly and quietly with the automatic drive unit.
In use at Design & Interior LEONARDO in Moscow.
HAWA-Motus 150/H-matic
30 metres of disappearing wall Convenient and remarkably flexible.
Revelations at the touch of a button.
In 2007, Hawa AG launched the HAWA-Motus 150/GV-matic slid ing hardware capable of moving glass partition walls with up to 20 elements quietly and smoothly to the side at the touch of a button. Now, two years later, the well-es tablished hardware system is also available for wood partition walls under the name HAWA-Motus 150/H-matic.
Up to thirty metres HAWA-Motus 150/H-matic moves mobile wood partition walls of up to 30 metres in length, where each of the maximum number of 20 elements can weigh up to 150 kg. Sliding elements move to one side or individual elements slide into separate stacking spac es to the left and right as if by magic. The parking space is ex tremely small and adaptable to the building situation as a system with elements stacked in parallel,
at 90° or fanned. The first door is implementable as a lockable pivot door or automatically lock ing sliding door.
No covers The drive unit is integrated in the top track to enable narrow de signs and simple planning and in stallation. Drive components are nonetheless accessible via the so-called servicing unit. The trol ley, current collector and drive together form a CE-compliant, cable-free unit. No need for com plex covers. The pluggable mo dular track system is variable in use. The current collector simply clips into place, even in curved sections. Electric locks or signal ling devices connect directly to the main control unit.
HAWA-Motus 150/H-matic slides doors of width 850 to 1,500 mm and up to 3,500 mm in height. The system’s broad bandwidth is much appreciated by designers and installers alike. The new hardware system is expected to become the preferred choice in particular for installations in rep resentative homes and offices, banks, clinics and shopping cen tres. Help in securing an ideal solution, tailor-made to the situa tion in hand, is available from the regional installers who design, manufacture and install the sliding systems. As authorised Hawa partners they are experi enced in configuring the ideal design for automatic sliding wall systems.
Broad bandwidth The maximum door dimensions are impressive:
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Product News
HAWA-Toplock with square lock
HAWA-Frontslide 60/matic
New square socket lock for all-glass sliding doors
Intelligent control for sliding shutters
The extension to the HAWAToplock safety lock range has a square socket and is ideal for bathroom and toilet facilities whilst fulfilling high demands for safety. Countercasing for twodoor systems and a profile with a strike plate for wall connections are available. The new lock for sliding glass doors has a twist grip that caters for the needs of the disabled pursuant to ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act) requirements. The lock’s aesthet ic design harmonises perfectly with sliding glass installations and is ideal for public and private buildings. The plastic cover plates are available in dull chromium finish, a stainless steel look or un treated for painting. Bathrooms in apartments and hotel rooms often have no exterior wall and therefore no windows. Sliding doors made from frosted, opaque glass let daylight in and are lock able nonetheless thanks to the HAWA-Toplock.
The introduction of the HAWAMotronic 230VAC drive unit in April 2008 has won over users and installers of HAWA-Frontslide 60/matic. The system makes electrical installation as easy as it is with rolling shutter sys tems and is operated via com mercially available switches. Automatic sliding shutters, tele scopic and symmetrical systems slide smoothly and quietly into any desired position. An intelli gent control unit allows slow starting and stopping move ments. It continuously counts and stores every revolution of the motor and knows the shut ter’s position at any given time, even after a power failure. The control unit is integrated in the drive, making connection cables and control boxes unnecessary and thus simplifying design and installation. The trouble-free unit can also be connected to the central building management system.
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Glass suspension and retainer profiles
Cover caps
Available faster at a better price
Now available separately
The glass suspension and retain er profiles made of aluminium for
Top track sets and glass suspen sion and retainer profile sets for
HAWA-Junior 80 – 250/G HAWA-Super 250/G HAWA-Symmetric 80/G HAWA-Telescopic 80/G
HAWA-Junior 80 – 250/G HAWA-Junior 80 –120/GV HAWA-Symmetric 80/G HAWA-Symmetric 80/GV HAWA-Super 250/G
are now also available in plain anodised and brushed finish. This design allows for shorter delivery times and also a reduction in cost for plain anodised systems.
no longer contain cover caps. Experience has shown that the caps are often left unused. To reduce cost, they are no longer automatically included in every delivery and are now available as separate items. However, matching covers are available for every top track and glass suspension and retain er profile. You can find the article numbers among the ordering details for each product with the HAWA-Productfinder at www.hawa.ch.
Agenda
Personal
BWS 09 International trade show for wood treatment and processing, joinery, carpentry and manufacturing supplies, metal goods, tools, locks and hardware.
22. – 25.4.09
Exhibition Centre Salzburg, Austria
Hawa
Hall 1, Stand 410
7. – 8.5.09
Kortrijk Xpo, Belgium
Hawa
Hall 5, Stand 181
13. – 16.5.09
Cologne Exhibition Centre, Germany
Hawa
Hall 7.1, Stand C-049 with new furniture hardware products
4. – 5.6.09
Foire Internationale de Liège, Belgium Hall 1, Stand 79
Architect@Work Trade show with innovative products for architects, engineering consultants, interior stylists and designers.
Interzum 09 Leading international exhibition for sup pliers to the furniture industry and interior fittings with visionary technology and innovative design, hardware and surfaces, wood materials and veneers, leather and upholstery.
Architect@Work Trade show with innovative products for architects, engineering consultants, interior stylists and designers.
Hawa
Schreiner 09 In-house exhibition for carpenters in German-speaking Switzerland with aound 100 exhibitors showing current trends from the woodworking industry.
18. – 20.6.09
Sportzentrum Grindel Bassersdorf, Switzerland
Hawa
Hall 2, Stand 8
25. – 27.6.09
Palais de Beaulieu Lausanne, Switzerland
Hawa
Hall 10, Stand 13
Menuisier 09 Exhibition for carpenters in Frenchspeaking Switzerland with aound 100 exhibitors showing current trends from the woodworking industry.
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«Teamwork means the ability to engage in mutual motivation, thus enabling individuals to excel themselves.» Sailing, curling, and at one time ice-hockey: Eugen Arnold likes team sports. The 44-year-old joined Hawa AG as Director of Commercial Business Internation al in August 2008. «Hawa AG has a comfortable size and nurtures a fantastic corporate culture with an emphasis on quality aware ness», says the trained cabinet maker and graduate sales direc tor. Eugen Arnold is responsible for supervising sales staff, con trolling commercial business around the world and managing key accounts. He brings with him four years of experience as man aging director, the savoir-vivre of 15 years at Hilti International – and the healthy composure and down-to-earth approach of a father of three children between the ages of five and sixteen. Teamwork belongs to every as pect, says Eugen Arnold: «Our challenge lies not in solving ques tions of guilt but rather the prob lems in hand.»
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Hawa sliding hardware: open for the unconventional.
The future needs a past: Hawa AG has invented and produced sliding hardware systems over quite a few decades. And that is precisely why we are always at the forefront when it comes to anticipating the latest trends and modern design ideas. From invisible sliding hardware for complete transparency to stacking solutions with the smallest parking space requirements, you will always find Hawa products to be the innovations of today. And the classics of tomorrow. Hawa AG, CH-8932 Mettmenstetten, Switzerland, Tel. +41 44 767 91 91, Fax +41 44 767 91 78, www.hawa.ch