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Galileo Satellite Control Centre, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany - The outside of the building resembles a medieval fortress. The facade is comprised of window openings as well as pre-determined regular tie points and horizontal pilaster strips.

Galileo Satellite Control Centre, Germany
Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany

Monolithic structure using architectural concrete

Length: 48 m
Height: 15 m
Span: 42 m
Footprint: 1.800 m²

 

 

 

Location
Oberpfaffenhofen
Main Application
Housing and Multi-Storey Buildings
Project participants
Architect: Architects: Schultes Frank Architekten, Berlin; aichner kazzer architekten, Munich

The Project

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Galileo Satellite Control Centre, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany - The outside of the building resembles a medieval fortress. The facade is comprised of window openings as well as pre-determined regular tie points and horizontal pilaster strips.
Galileo Satellite Control Centre, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany - The outside of the building resembles a medieval fortress. The facade is comprised of window openings as well as pre-determined regular tie points and horizontal pilaster strips.
The outside of the building resembles a medieval fortress. The facade is comprised of window openings as well as pre-determined regular tie points and horizontal pilaster strips.

Project Information

Requirements
Complicated shapes of architectural concrete quality: minimum number and defined positioning of the tie points on the tunnel supports low number of joints defined tie and joint pattern with horizontal pilaster strips in the wall areas striking window recesses with angled reveals smallest radii up to 35 cm
Solutions
concreting cycle height set at 1.62 m so that anchoring could be effected outside the concreting area use of large Fin-Ply Maxi formwork panels pre-assembled 3D formwork units based on the VARIO GT 24 girder wall formwork system with tapered formwork panel edge specially planned and produced box-outs for the inclined recesses of the windows
Stefan Schütz, Senior Site Foreman, Galileo Satellite Centre
Stefan Schütz, Senior Site Foreman, Galileo Satellite Centre
Stefan Schütz
Senior Site Foreman
We received a perfect solution for the inclined tower right from the very first use. Delivery was on time and the formwork elements were accurate down to a millimetre. Thus, we are on schedule and are achieving a maximum of form precision and surface result.

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Galileo Satellite Control Centre, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany - The outside of the building resembles a medieval fortress. The facade is comprised of window openings as well as pre-determined regular tie points and horizontal pilaster strips.
Galileo Satellite Control Centre, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany - The outside of the building resembles a medieval fortress. The facade is comprised of window openings as well as pre-determined regular tie points and horizontal pilaster strips.