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slide Magazine for Architecture, Design, Retailer, Trade
islands in time Temporary existence
One minute has 90 seconds Sliding recipes for haute cuisine HAWA-Junior – a family story
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islands in time Taking time for oneself
One minute has 90 seconds Of practical constraints, a lack of events and the perception of time
For you to take the time to read these lines is pleasing. It is by no means a matter of course, as time is a valuable commodity. We could always do with more of it, both privately and professionally. We all make our own individual use of time – be it active, reclusive, fast-paced or relaxed – by means of «islands» created by ourselves or others. This edition of SLIDE takes a closer look at the topic of «islands in time».
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When we visit our business partners we look forward to working together with them. And to meeting interesting people. Time often passes in the wink of an eye. Each year we spend so many days and weeks on the road that a hotel becomes a home from home – an «island» in the hustle and bustle of everyday life. A growing number of hotels use innovative room concepts to make a «temporary state of being» as pleasant as possible. And a growing number of architects and designers bank on sliding hardware systems from Hawa to implement them. The fact that our solutions contribute to the wellbeing of guests fills us with modest pride.
Topic One minute has 90 seconds 160 minutes of island time: NEAT base tunnel 130 minutes of island time: Furka Mountain Railway Temporary existence – peace and quiet at the hotel
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Projects Vacation island: holiday apartment Functional island: business lounge Living island: student halls of residence
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Know-how
Gregor and Heinz Haab Managing Directors Hawa AG Sliding Hardware Systems
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The story of the HAWA-Junior family HAWA-Junior 80-120/B: a living house HAWA-Adapto 80-120: flush with the ceiling and stylish HAWA-Concepta 25/30/50 in the kitchen «Customers are extremely well-informed.» Product News Agenda, Personal
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VitraHaus, Weil am Rhein The functional island is closed
individuality as a hotel concept Holiday destination, business apartment, cabin room
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softMove 80 The new soft closing mechanism for the HAWA-Junior 80
Kitchens of today and tomorrow Designer Antonio Citterio sets kitchen trends. Hawa plays a role
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One minute has 90 seconds Life consists of time periods that are perceived and experienced differently.
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The present lasts for three seconds. so says ernst Pöppel, director of the institute of Medical Psychology, in describing the period of time a human being experiences as «now». He refers to this clock frequency as the «breath of the brain». After three seconds the present has become the past – it is no wonder that every now and then we feel time is running out. If you try chasing time with unfinished business you will usually come too late and find that the present is already in the past. And that is where it will stay. It can be recalled but not replayed. At least time always provides replenishment. This fresh supply is called the future and is always just around the corner, either planned in advance or still a blank canvas. Experience shows that time in the form of the future lasts longer when it is still unplanned. Sixty seconds that are not filled with one thing or another can last an astoundingly long time. Not to speak of sixty minutes. These extensions to the present are effectively a kind of «island in time».
The secret of islands in time
decelerate and disengage
From an objective viewpoint, one minute spent on an island in time lasts sixty seconds. But subjectively it feels longer. This is because the island in time is characterised by a lack of events. Eventless phases seem to last longer, eventful phases much shorter. This is true of cinema films and of real life. The equation is: less movement = fewer events = more time.
«Only a still pond reflects the light of the stars», said Chinese teacher Confucius more than 2,500 years ago. It is peace and quiet that first enable us to see the big picture.
Minimising events Eventless phases are rare; waiting times and travelling times have become shorter. And when one does have time on one’s hands, it is often quickly spent with the help of smart phones, netbooks, laptops, games and reading. Forty winks are a things of the past. Sundays, holidays and work breaks are prefilled, and ever more work can be done regardless of the time of day or night. Even agricultural fallow periods are becoming shorter: artificial light and artificial climates simulate the seasons. Tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers. aubergines and other vegetables fall for the trick and grow all year round without any earth, hydroponic.
Places can also be used as islands in time. Holiday homes, park benches, furniture, hotels or simply flexibly designed rooms. Rituals, too, can be designed as islands in time. Driving without the radio on, journeys to and from work, rediscovered Sundays, switched-off computers, times of quiet. Time slots can be kept free as islands in time. A quiet fifteen minutes in the morning or afternoon. Neuroscientist Ernst Pöppel is considering introducing a telephone ban between eleven and twelve each day – an «unbelievably innovative step» according to Pöppel. Experience shows it is easier to jump back into the flow of practical constraints with a more open, creative and efficient approach. And often with new ideas that could even be used to... save time.
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160 minutes of island time NEAT base tunnel
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The year is 1878. A journey with the express mail coach from Basel to Milan takes around 50 hours. 50 hours of sitting down with no other plans to fill the time. At the same time, tunnel diggers deep inside the mountain battle against granite dust and dynamite vapours, floods and rockfall. For eight long years the diggers work and sleep in shifts, sharing the cots in the shabby barracks next to the tunnel entrance. Then, on 29 February 1880, newspaper reporters wire the message
«Gotthard break-through!» to a waiting world. The world’s longest tunnel measures 15 kilometres and connects south and central Europe via tracks of iron. The tunnel diggers move on to the next mountain, the next cot, the next barracks. On 15 October 2010 pictures of the Gotthard tunnel once again go around the world: 2,500 metres beneath the surface, jubilant tunnel builders celebrate the break-through of
the world’s longest tunnel. Over the past nine years they have blasted 24 million tonnes of rock from the 57 kilometre long hole, enough to build the great pyramid of Cheops five times over. The tunnel workers start to dismantle the four tunnel boring machines, each of which weighs in at 2,700 tonnes and measures 440 metres in length. They move on to the next mountain and into the next cots in the next living container. Tunnel builders and blasters only settle temporarily.
Now the trackmen are at work in the Gotthard tunnel. They lay tracks of iron so that, as of 2017, up to 300 trains per day can glide through the mountain on rails. The tunnel is designed for speeds of up to 250 km/h. Travelling is much quicker; the journey from Zurich to Milan will take a mere 160 minutes. They can be filled with work, reading or games. But they can also be kept free of events – as an extension to the present – for reflection, contemplation, sweet idleness.
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Furka Mountain Railway
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130 minutes of island time The route of the Furka Mountain Railway from Realp near Andermatt to Oberwald in the canton of Valais was tortuous and steep. Its peak was 2,163 metres above sea level, and the steam engines snorted loudly as they navigated the route in the years following its opening in 1925. There were only a few months each year when the trains could move at all, as the weather in the alps is wild and the winters are long; avalanches, landslides and floods posed a hazard to tracks, bridges and tunnels. The route was electrified in 1942. The steam engines were now surplus to requirements and found a new home in Vietnam. 40 years later Switzerland opened the Furka tunnel and closed the railway line over the pass. Traffic routes too are merely of temporary significance.
However, the alpine railway line also had its fans. In 1983 they founded the «Furka Cogwheel Steam Railway Club» to keep the original route alive. Hardly anybody else apart from its members believed in the feasibility of the idea. The fans, however, renovated, laid bricks, made repairs, built safeguards and other constructions. Their perseverance captivated the imagination of Swiss, Germans, Dutch and Belgians. Friends of the Furka line travelled to the alps and dug in as volunteers, some for days and weeks, others on a regular basis over many years. Islands of time and variety in their daily lives. Sponsors barely managed to keep the project afloat from phase to phase. Representatives of the association located the old steam engines in Vietnam in 1990.
They had been quietly rusting away since the 1970s. After 48 years in exile they made an adventurous return journey to Switzerland, where volunteers spent around 18,000 hours just on the renovation of the steam engine HG4/4FO4. On 12 August 2010 the old steam engine, meanwhile 97 years of age, snorted as loud as ever as it arrived at the pass. It was the first steam engine on the Furka line in 68 years, its historic carriages filled with jubilant founding members of the association. The journey along the Furka Mountain Railway takes 130 minutes and embodys 27 years of commitment. A decelerated train journey, a trip for the sake of a trip. An event.
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Travellers, business nomads and holiday guests have different expectations of hotels and apartment dwellings. The respective owners of these buildings are nonetheless pursuing a common route of development: namely towards functional islands in the hustle and bustle of daily life.
There are few places where the pulse of the mobile world is as palpable as at airports. 180,000 passengers are processed every day at London Heathrow; whether en route to Moscow, Delhi or New York, it is a continuous coming and going. However, opportunities for withdrawal have been available since 2008: tired passengers in transit can book into the YOTEL. The rooms at the YOTEL are designed in the style of first-class airliner cabins. In an area measuring less than ten square metres, guests will find a double bed, a bathroom, and a flatscreen TV – but most of all peace and quiet. London’s Gatwick airport also has
Temporary existence
Treehotel
Blue Cone, Bird’s Nest, Cabin, Mirrorcube, Ufo: every room unique.
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a YOTEL, as does Schiphol airport in Amsterdam. There are plans to open another one in Manhattan, the city centre of New York, this year. The uncompromising, functional room is developing beyond the airport.
Room structures and furnishings should be as dynamic and flexible as they are. This market is growing: real estate experts estimate that one in every ten apartments in a city such as Geneva is a business apartment.
One island for living and working
Creating multi-functional apartments such as these in a time-honoured town hall is certainly possible. In 2010, the century-old Town Hall in London’s East End reopened as the Town Hall Hotel & Apartments. The apartments are a blend of the traditional and the contemporary, of design and functionality, of work zone and recreational area. The kitchen
Globally networked business nomads who spend weeks or months in an apartment or hotel are quite discerning. They want to settle in without having to settle down. Ideally, their temporary home will transform from a comfortable island dwelling to an efficient working zone – and back again – in just a few moves.
«The hotel can become the destination.» Harry Gatterer, Futurologist, Austrian institute of Futurology
that disappears elegantly behind a folding sliding wall after use is of particular interest to long-term guests.
The hotel as a destination The Treehotel in the Swedish town of Harads represents a unique blend with regard to its architecture. Instead of rooms the hotel offers «tree houses» secured to the trunk or hanging from steel cables. Again, the architects have applied a very functional design to very little space, not least through the use of sliding solutions. And each «nest» of the concept hotel is unique. The guests who come here do not choose the hotel because of the destination but rather the destination because of the hotel. «A hotel that is one of a kind can become a destination», says Harry Gatterer, Managing Director of the Institute of Futurology in Vienna. «Hotels can be islands of zeitgeist».
YOTEL
The glass partition walls between bedroom and bathroom glide on HAWAJunior 80/GP hardware.
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Authenticity and individuality Hotels are rapidly becoming a destination in their own right in German-speaking areas, too. One such example is the Ketschauer Hof in Deidesheim, near Mannheim on the German wine route. Two years ago, Berlin designer and interior architect Tassilo Bost redesigned the interior of the 18th century stately home and in doing so combined local tradition with modern elegance. It is perceptible
as soon as one enters the building. «The first impression decides whether or not a guest will feel at home in a hotel», says Tassilo Bost.
At home White and light-grey colour tones and oak wood floors dominate the rooms and suites. Designer Bost deliberately created an air of calm by practicing discreet restraint: «Guests should not be subject to sensory overload
«Guests should not be subject to sensory overload.» Tassilo Bost, designer, bost group berlin
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but simply feel at home». The free-standing bath and the glass walls and sliding doors between the bathroom and bedroom are striking features. Their smooth transitions and the seamless integration between walls, floor and ceiling allow them to blend in discreetly, making the room appear bigger. They transform the bathroom into an island without isolating it. «Our aim is to offer the guest something they likes but does not have at home». A hotel with a past as a historic family home enables its guests to experience a totally different perception of time and space. Tassilo Bost has created a zeitgeist island at the hotel Ketschauer Hof – made of times gone by.
Ketschauer Hof
sliding glass doors equipped with HAWA-Junior 80/GP transform the bathroom to an island of tranquillity without isolating it.
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Holiday apartment Las Fluras, Flims Waldhaus The holiday home is a reminiscence of its surroundings: a natural event.
The residence Las Fluras was opened in 2008, just a few steps away from the Waldhaus Flims Mountain Resort & Spa. Its location on a slightly raised ridge offers a view to the spruce forest and the Graubündnen mountains. The apartment on the third floor is also characterised by natural materials. The second home in the mountains measures just under 120 square metres. It is as timeless as the natural beauty that surrounds it. Floors and baths are made of Valser quartzite, the window frames are solid spruce and the majority of the furniture is solid oak. Although the terrace is recessed, the living area is nonetheless flooded with light thanks to a glass balustrade and a large window
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front. Hans Peter Fontana and his team of architects were much more restrained when designing the windows in the remaining rooms, as they create the feeling of security that is at the heart of tranquillity and regeneration. The clever division of space was made possible not least by intelligent sliding solutions. A wooden sliding door conceals the storeroom in the hall whilst a second separates the largest bedroom from its bathroom. The architects were thus able to prevent a door leaf from blocking a washbasin or from taking up too much space in the bedroom. Both sliding doors glide softly on HAWA-Junior 40/B hardware. The morning visit to the bathroom stays quiet; nobody is woken up. Relaxation starts early on in the day.
Project: Holiday apartment Las Fluras Location: Flims Waldhaus Country: Switzerland Architect: Hans Peter Fontana und Partner AG, Flims Dorf Realization: Schreinerei Fontana AG, Flims Dorf Building owner: Private Completion: 2008 Hawa systems: HAWA-Junior 40/B Intention: Sliding doors Quantity: 2 Material: Wood
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Business Lounge in VitraHaus, Weil am Rhein
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Houses like glass cabinets stacked on top of one another – this is VitraHaus in Weil am Rhein. The stacking continues on the inside thanks to architects Herzog & de Meuron and to sliding walls made of wood. Their common denominator is their international reputation: Vitra stands for designer furniture, Herzog & de Meuron for groundbreaking architecture. More than 300 journalists from around the world who were present at the opening of the VitraHaus in February 2010 were duly impressed by the twelve houses that are stacked up over five levels and stick out into the environment by up to 15 metres. This labyrinth is where Vitra presents furniture and objects created by contemporary designers. A total work of art with showroom, café, shop, exhibition, colour laboratory, children’s area and business lounge. A flush wooden partition wall in the business lounge is conspicuously inconspicuous: eleven wooden elements slide into three parking spaces with just a few moves thanks to HAWA-Aperto 60/H hardware. They open up over a length of 15 metres to reveal the cabinets that make up the wardrobe and bar. This drawn-out island is only visible when in use and otherwise does not irritate the eye of the beholder. Tourists of architecture and customers can therefore concentrate on the essential: the VitraHaus as a total work of art.
Project: VitraHaus, Business Lounge Location: Weil am Rhein Country: Germany Architect: Herzog & de Meuron Architekten AG, Basle Realization: Bäuchle Schreinerei – Innenausbau, Weil am Rhein Building owner: Vitra AG Completion: 2010 Hawa systems: HAWA-Aperto 60/H Intention: Stackable sliding wall made of wood Quantity: 3 systems each with 3 or 4 sliding doors and 4 pivot doors Material: Wood
11 sliding doors, 3 parking spaces with pivot doors, flush recessed floor guides: only the functional can be beautiful.
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P anzerwiese student halls of residence, Munich Sun protection and privacy screen, light reflector, space-saver, room divider and design element: student halls of residence demonstrate the many benefits of sliding systems. 250 metres that are home to 545 students: the available space on Panzerwiese could not have been better exploited. The escape routes designed as access balconies on the three flat-roof buildings are enclosed by freestanding perforated facing on the front of the balustrade and by sliding metal shutters directly in front of the windows. It is their differing tones of red that bring the building visually to life. Folding sliding shutters designed as sunscreens adorn the façades of the five four-storey residential blocks. The architects have assigned a further clever function to the screens: when the ivory-coloured folding sliding shutters are opened to form a package standing at a right angle to the façade they reflect daylight into the room. Sliding solutions are at the heart of transformations on the inside, too: the apartments in the low-rise buildings have two sliding doors equipped with HAWA-Junior 80/B that close off either the bathroom, the hall or wardrobe recess. 545 students use these sliding systems to control closeness and distance, openness and privacy. An ideal starting point for concentrated, goal-oriented studying.
The entrance portals to the atriums are positioned slightly to the front. This enables them to pick up the theme of the façade facing.
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Project: Panzerwiese student halls of residence Location: Munich County: Germany Architect: bogevischs buero, hofmann ritzer architekten, Munich Realization: Glasl Stahl-Metallbau GmbH, Geretsried Building owner: Studentenwerk München Completion: 2005 Hawa system: HAWA-Frontslide 60/A, HAWA-Frontfold 20, HAWA-Junior 80/B Intention: Sliding shutters and folding sliding shutters, sliding doors Quantity: 400 sliding shutters, 240 folding sliding shutters Material: Aluminium sheet, wood slide No. 6 19
Know-how
The soft closing mechanism softMove 80 remains invisible from the outside as it is completely integrated in the top track.
HAWA-Junior sliding hardware systems
The family
The core piece: a solid, leakproof hydraulic metal damper.
Generations of carpentry experts and, over the past decade, glazing experts have worked with the HAWAJunior sliding hardware system. May 2011 will see the market launch of a further technically mature and system-compatible accessory for the HAWA-Junior family – the soft closing mechanism softMove 80.
Clever accessories for the HAWA-Junior:
sliding flush with the ceiling No hammer drill required: HAWA-Adapto, the system for setting sliding hardware systems in concrete flush with the ceiling, is installed during shell construction. 20 slide No. 6
Clever wall fastening substructure? Unnecessary. simply screw the angled profile to the wall. Cover? Unnecessary. The angled profile and HAWA-Junior top tracks run continuously from end to end and are plain anodised. Additional drill holes? Unnecessary. simply clamp the top tracks in place with groove nuts. Assembly really can be this efficient.
The soft closing mechanism gently decelerates doors fitted with the HAWAJunior 80 and pulls them into their end position.
SoftMove 80 is the name of the new, highquality soft closing mechanism for sliding doors fitted with the HAWA-Junior 80. It gently decelerates sliding doors and pulls them into their end position. The soft closing mechanism works progressively; in other words: it adapts its effect perfectly to the weight of the door and the sliding speed. The soft closing mechanism remains invisible from the outside as it is fully integrated in the top track, either on the opening or closing side or on both sides.
100,000 test cycles and the soft closing mechanism is not only maintenance-free but also very durable. Ready for delivery as of May 2011, it is suitable for all HAWA-Junior 80 sets held in stock. And it also suits the experts who can present new solutions to their customers on the basis of a new generation of HAWAJunior products.
In contrast to pneumatic plastic dampers, the soft closing mechanism SoftMove 80 consists of a high-quality hydraulic damper encased in a solid metal body. Its design guarantees leak tightness and continuous functionality. The tension spring still closes faultlessly even after
The new soft closing mechanism SoftMove 80 is compatible with HAWAJunior 80 hardware.
Fastening on the face side doors in ceiling-integrated systems can also be fitted and removed without dismantling the door jamb or lining – thanks to the HAWAassembly wedge.
Even nowadays, 28 years after the first HAWAJunior 80 delighted the first users with its out-
Prevent structure-borne noise The sound insulation bracket prevents the impact sound generated by a sliding system from transferring to the structure. This keeps things nice and quiet in adjacent rooms. HAWAsoundex is easy to fit and does not require additional drill holes.
standing running properties, Hawa AG still holds ten national and international patents for the HAWA-Junior product family alone. Processors and architects searching for an interesting solution or creative idea simply compile the best combination from a broad range of weight categories, suspension units, surfaces, profiles, guides, stops, sound absorbers, locks and other accessories. Sliding doors in Milan, Dubai, Shanghai, Sydney and New York glide on HAWA-Junior sliding hardware. Wherever members of this family happen to meet in the world: they get along just fine as they are designed for easy installation, functionality and compatibility. And they are also 100% Swiss made. This is an association – and an obligation.
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Know-how
Karl Haab, inventor of the HAWA-Junior
The result of a sleepless night Brothers Karl and Otto Haab started out in 1965 with no money and a lot of ideas. Karl, the creative thinker, had many of his best ideas when he had a chance to ponder on solutions in peace and quiet: at night. This is how the HAWA-Junior programme that went on to become a global success was born.
Aesthetic security HAWA-Toplock, the solid lock with square or round cover caps for sliding doors, is designed for all-glass systems with one or two doors. it is also suitable for stationary glass elements and walls. either way, a safe and elegant solution. 22
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Top track with stationary glass retainer The glass element is inserted into the stationary glass retainer in the top track and held in position by a Hawa rubber profile or a silicone joint. in the walkthrough area clip the cover profile into the stationary glass compartment for a visually appealing finish.
Vertical seal profile The slim-line aluminium profile with the inserted rubber seal is simply attached with silicone to the face of glass elements. The effects: virtually no draught, noise or resistance and an impeccable appearance, even after many years.
Karl Haab, how does one come up with an ingenious idea? By thinking day and night about what it is you want to change.
What did you and your brother want to change when you started out in the mid-1960s? First of all we wanted to achieve something. We worked day and night; we were pursuing success and wanted to be better.
«Hey, your development works much better than the old hardware!»
to us and said: «Your development works much better than the old hardware.» From that point on all of our trolley rollers were plasticcoated and the top tracks made of anodised aluminium.
And the HAWA-Junior? I had a hugely creative period around the beginning of the 1980s. We wanted to develop new technologies, fathom out new possibilities and show people all the things that could be achieved with sliding hardware. I felt the burning flames of creative unrest. I often stayed awake until four in the morning. I found the peace I needed to think in the hours before sleeping.
To think about the HAWA-Junior? What was your first hit? When we first started out the most popular sliding hardware had steel rollers and brass tracks. They were naturally very loud. We tried coating the steel rollers with plastic and replacing costly brass with aluminium. Our hardware was quieter and less expensive as a result.
Yes, that was also the result of a sleepless night when it suddenly went «click» after many hours of brooding. The next day I went to see my testing mechanical engineer who understood the idea and implemented it within just a few days.
rust-proof sliding axle and used it as the core component of the hardware. We tried out the prototype in the cellar; it literally ran like a dream. The HAWA-Junior was a huge success with architects and consumers. It changed their perception of sliding hardware technology and is still the state of the art.
What prerequisites does one need to achieve results of this calibre? Certainly a lot of expert knowledge. As a trained cabinet maker I was able to approach problems from the consumer’s viewpoint. A determined will is also important. And perhaps one has to be a natural born thinker and designer.
What do you mean by that? And what was the clou? We replaced the costly ball bearings with a
When was that? Around three years after we started out. A manufacturer of school furniture used the new sliding door hardware for the first time in 1968 for the interior fittings in a school. We had to promise to replace everything if the hardware were to fail. After a short while he came back
«We wanted to develop new techniques to show what can be achieved with sliding hardware.»
«We tried out the prototype hardware in the cellar. It ran like a dream and very quietly.»
Wall-mounted floor guide smooth floor guides are also possible with difficult floor surfaces or underfloor heating: thanks to HAWA-Confort 120-160 that is mounted to the wall. its rattleproof guide and stop components are laterally adjustable.
I mean the ability to form a clear idea, a patent, a simple solution from the disordered material of a strenuous contemplative process. We went on to develop many more applications and protect them with patents. Me as the thinker and my brother Otto as mathematician, businessman and sharp analyst. All components need to work together perfectly for the whole to work and become a success.
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The ceiling-flush sliding door can separate bedroom and bathroom or open up to create a room with flowing transitions.
HAWA-Junior 80-120/B
A living house On the shores of lake Zug in central switzerland stands a villa that blends so naturally into its park-like surroundings that it is perceived as part of the landscape. The sliding doors are also perfectly integrated – in the architecture and in the requirements of the inhabitants. On the outside, the earthy colours of the rough clinker brick facade change in the sunlight. On the inside, room-high sliding wall elements change the function and effect of the light rooms. «The inhabitants are able to design their rooms flexibly», says architect Niklaus Graber of Graber and Steiger in Lucerne. «When open, the rooms appear connected, continuous and flowing. When closed, they are transformed into individual rooms». The degree of separation is subtle and individually adjustable; this allows for ideal adaptation to daily routines. The sliding elements glide on the hardware HAWA-Junior 80/B and HAWA-Junior 120/B. The top tracks were concreted into the ceiling using the HAWA-Adapto 80-120 system, much in keeping with purist character of the house.
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HAWA-Adapto 80-120
Flush with the ceiling and stylish HAWA-Adapto 80-120, the profile for embedding top tracks in concrete, is used to elegantly install HAWA-Junior top tracks for wood and glass sliding doors and stationary glass elements in cast concrete ceilings. With no need for a hammer drill. Very simple. The installer marks the axis for the top track on the shuttering. He then nails the installation clips to the mark, takes the profile with the right length, fills it with a polystyrene strip and closes the ends with cover caps. This prevents concrete from flowing into the cavities. He then clips the profile to the shuttering. The profile is therefore prepared for later use at this early stage of construction, the same as various other installation fittings in ceilings and walls.
Once the ceiling is cast and set, the installer removes the polystyrene and cover caps and inserts the HAWA-Junior top track into the embedded profile. He levels the top track with the aid of spacers and tightens it with special cylinder screws. He then tightens the remaining screws and fits the sliding door. Job done. Installing the HAWA-Adapto 80-120 concrete casting profile is as elegant as the final result.
The HAWA-Adapto 80-120 lets the sliding technology disappear discreetly and stylishly into the cast concrete ceiling. There are no covers or top tracks screwed to the ceiling to disrupt the room’s generous impression or to cast shadows; transitions remain flowing; the living ambience is characterised by openness – many architects have acquired a taste for the HAWA-Adapto since it won the interzum award in 2005.
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Sliding recipes for haute cuisine
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Antonio Citterio stows functional units in the cabinet equipped with HAWA-Concepta 25/30/50 for «lignum et lapis» (left) and «spatia» (right) kitchens of the Arclinea Collection.
Live together, cook together Renowned architect Antonio Citterio has designed a ground-breaking kitchen concept for italian kitchen manufacturer Arclinea that merges kitchen and living space like never before. Antonio Citterio has incorporated HAWA-Concepta 25/30/50 hardware as a main component of the «pocket system» available for all kitchen models of the Arclinea Collection.
For many thousands of years people gathered around the fireplace as a central point. From the 1920s on, however, the kitchen was degraded to a drab and menial workplace. But the wind has shifted. Milanese architect and designer Antonio Citterio is employing new means to drive the fusion between living room and kitchen to a new level.
ware. The pivot/slide-in hardware system has convinced Citterio, not least due to its ability to discreetly and space-savingly stow doors out of the way: «The system makes it easier to design an integrated living area. Pivot/slidein elements are simply the best method of creating more space, especially in smaller flats or apartments.»
Citterio has assigned more space than usual to the kitchen island. He has gained the extra room required for his solution by making the best possible use of wall space. Working zones, storage areas, the kitchen sink and other devices and machines are concealed behind room-high, flushfitting pivot/slide-in partition walls. This «pocket system» glides on HAWA-Concepta 25/30/50 hard-
There are practically no negative implications to the new openness: low-maintenance materials such as stone, chrome steel, Co-
rian and glass ceramic are more than hygienic enough for the living room. Induction hobs avoid heat radiation, whilst powerful vapour extractors and table-top hoods take care of the rest. Recirculating air extractors that use warm exhaust air as a source of heat are gaining popularity. The pocket system by kitchen manufacturer Arclinea and star designer Antonio Citterio is an extendible basic system that simultaneously sets trends and examples. And Hawa AG is a part of it.
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Know-how
Pivot and slide in Open doors protruding into the kitchen are a nuisance and can cause accidents. The hardware HAWA-Concepta 25/30/50 allows the user to open flush doors made of wood (19 to 50 mm) or glass (TSG, 8 mm) and weighing up to 50 kg with a 90° pivot movement and slide them into a side recess. One can open and close entire multi-functional walls that are both stylish and flush. Particular features: scissor technology that is astonishingly easy to fit, maintenance-free and very reliable.
Slide and stack Simply more space: the versatile hardware systems of the HAWAAperto programme slide elements made of wood or glass to one side and stack them away in the smallest of spaces. These systems are suitable for separating kitchen and dining areas and for discreetly spiriting away worktops, kitchen furniture and appliances or storage areas, especially when their fronts are often open. Particular features: maximum functionality; both small and very large fronts can be stacked away in next to no time.
Whole opening, half a recess Optimum space utilisation is a must when space is at a premium; after all, «behind the door» is a bad location for a kitchen cupboard. Sliding doors do not protrude into the room. Doors that slide telescopically and park in a recess with the HAWATelescopic 80/G offer even more space and transparency. The telescopic sliding hardware system for glass doors (TSG, 8 to 16 mm) is based on the HAWAJunior 80 system proven millionfold around the world. Particular features: very smooth running, easy action and durability.
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«Customers are extremely well-informed.» The 65 employees at stuber Team AG build quality furniture and kitchens under the guidance of Gerd and Roger stuber, mainly for discerning private customers in Central switzerland.
Are breakfast kitchens really as popular as one reads? Without a doubt; after all, it is ever more common for the kitchen and living area to flow into one another. Sideboards and other furniture are combined with the kitchen. What makes a good kitchen fitter? He is well-informed with regard to the market and current trends. Only then can he offer sound advice. He should be able to find out or sense the needs and wants of his customer. How he cooks, how he works, whether he is left- or right-handed, the appliances he uses most of all, and so on. This is what enables him to work with his customer to design the kitchen that is best for him. We hardly ever present readymade solutions. The best kitchens are created with input from both sides.
Are customers today more knowledgeable due to the internet? Oh, yes. Many customers are very well-informed and already have concrete ideas.
glass, wood or metal. On the one hand, sliding solutions are often found in sideboards integrated in the kitchen, or in the fronts of cooking islands.
And you know what is and is not feasible. Correct. It is rarely possible to exactly replicate a kitchen that a customer has seen in a photo. And even if it were possible, it does not mean it is the ideal solution for the customer. Our job is to determine the aspects that appeal to the customer and incorporate them in their future kitchen. We are often able to suggest astonishing approaches and integrate unusual products thanks to our expert competence and experience in kitchen design.
And on the other? We also use sliding door fronts in the high-end segment; they enable the entire infrastructure including appliances to disappear behind elegant sliding walls. The kitchen is no longer perceived as such as it is more akin to a cubic cabinet with relatively wide sliding fronts. This type of kitchen design nearly always calls for solutions with sliding elements.
What role do sliding solutions play? Sliding solutions are suitable for interesting applications made of
What is more important: beauty or practicality? Even the most beautiful kitchen is of no use if it does not function. And functionality should be paired with a clear design.
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Product News
HAWA-Concepta 25/30/50
New quality certificates
Better priced HAWA-Frontslide 60
In good company
New end position damper
Quality seal of the highest class
Price cuts thanks to success
Hawa references
Since February 2011 all sets for the HAWA-Concepta 25/30/50 have included an end position damper for the rear scissor bearing.
The Bavarian State Trade Agency LGA situated in Nuremberg has once again subjected the latest Hawa developments to stringent testing; namely, the systems
This means that the pivot/slide-in doors in wood or glass installations are now gently decelerated by a damper at the bottom and also by an additional damper at the top before smoothly coming to a stop at their end position. The doors are also gently held in this position. This makes the HAWAConcepta 25/30/50 even more convenient to use.
HAWA-Purolino 80: DIN EN 1527:1998, 100,000 cycles
The HAWA-Frontslide programme is selling pleasingly well. Hawa was therefore able to reduce the prices at the beginning of February 2011 thanks to better purchasing and manufacturing options. The top tracks and drives for the following sliding shutter systems are now better priced:
Sliding hardware systems from Hawa are in use around the world, as is proved by an impressive overview of references. The list of projects recently equipped with hardware technology from Mettmenstetten ranges from A as in Abu Dhabi to Z as in Zurich.
HAWA-Frontslide 60/A HAWA-Frontslide 60/A-Telescopic HAWA-Frontslide 60/A-Symmetric HAWA-Frontslide 60/matic HAWA-Frontslide 60/maticTelescopic HAWA-Frontslide 60/maticSymmetric HAWA-Frontslide 60/B
A short and concise listing of international references can be found at www.hawa.ch in the References section.
HAWA-Antea 50-80/VF and HAWA-Concepta 25/30/50: DIN EN 15706, 40,000 cycles All three products therefore fulfil the highest requirements. The LGA also tested the pivot movement of the pivot/slide-in hardware HAWA-Concepta 25/30/50 for the first time in accordance with German standard DIN EN 15570. The specifically developed concealed hinges with their exact pivot movement and strong spring tension received nothing but praise. All certificates are available online at www.hawa.ch in the HAWAProductfinder under Certificates.
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The price reduction makes this modern form of sunscreen and shade even more attractive. Hawa sales partners can find price details at www.hawa.ch in the VIP room of the Support section.
The slide projects presented in previous editions of this magazine are described in greater detail in the Archive of the References section. The Hawa theme website
myslidestyle.ch shows how inspiring sliding solutions can be implemented with Hawa hardware in the context of architecture and design using a design idea as a basis.
Agenda
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BWs 2011 International exhibition for wood processing, ironmongery, tools, locks and hardware. www.bwsmesse.at
23. – 26.3.11 Hawa
Messezentrum Salzburg, Austria Hall 1, Stand 108
Project Qatar 2011 International exhibition for construction technology, building materials and environmental technology. www.projectqatar.com
2. – 5.5.11 Hawa
Qatar International Exhibition Centre, Doha, Qatar Hall 2, Stand Y23
5. – 6.5.11 Hawa
Kortrijk Xpo, Belgium Hall 4, Stand 110
25. – 28.5.11 Hawa
Messe Cologne, Germany Hall 7.1, Stand C-049
9. – 10.6.11 16. – 17.6.11 23. – 24.6.11 30.6. – 1.7.11 Hawa
Olma Saint Gall Saalsporthalle Zurich Beaulieu Lausanne Bea Berne Stand R22
Architect@Work Trade show for architects, designers, engineering consultants and interior designers. www.architectatwork.be
interzum 2011 Leading international trade show for the furniture idustry and interior design. www.interzum.de
K.days.11 The trade show for wood processors will be held for the second time and at four locations in Switzerland. Innovations from the world of hardware, safety technology, tools and small machinery can be seen.
linda Barry ... ... was happy to start her new job at Hawa Americas Inc. in July 2010. She is a LEED accredited professional with a BS in Interior Design. With 20 years of sales experience she is able to promote Hawa with architects and designers. «I’m excited to introduce my contacts to Hawa and our fabulous new showroom!», Barry says.
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... also started his job in Dallas in mid-July 2010. The MBA with a BS in Mechanical Engineering will provide support to Hawa customers and address technical specifications and product adaptations for the US market. His wish: «I want to be able to answer any question regarding Hawa products.»
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Hawa sliding hardware: open for refreshing elegance.
A need for flexible room utilisation, increasing demands on comfort and style and new prioritisations in living quarters such as an upgrading of wet rooms are some of the challenges of modern interior design: Hawa AG takes them on with a continuously expanding range of high-quality hardware for space-saving sliding, folding and stacking solutions. Planning a visit to www.hawa.ch is therefore always worthwhile for architects, planners and processors alike. Hawa AG, CH-8932 M ettmenstetten, Switzerland, Tel. +41 44 767 91 91, Fax +41 44 767 91 78, www.hawa.ch