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Unique Façade Design with Brush Finish Powder Coating The cantonal pharmacy in Aarau (Switzerland) is setting new standards of design with its unique brush-finish façade. A great deal of expertise has gone into creating this new powder coating, which is the only one of its kind in the industry.
F
or the redesign of the Aarau cantonal
philosophy was also applied to the façade
over to the development laboratory at KARL
pharmacy in Switzerland, the
design of the pharmacy in Aarau.
BUBENHOFER AG. Although the specialists
architectural firm Steiger Concept AG in
When the architects from Steiger Concept
here have extensive experience of meeting
Zurich developed a monolithic metal façade
approached KARL BUBENHOFER AG with
special requirements and have acquired a
with “plaster and broom finish”.
the request to create a powder coating with
reputation for making everything possible,
This is a method that has never before
a brush finish, even the experienced project
they were at first disconcerted by this
been considered, let alone implemented,
key account manager Mario Füglistaler was
request. But their curiosity and the unique
in architecture. The architects at
surprised. The only information was an
nature of the task inspired them to take on
Steiger Concept AG see themselves as a digital
idea painted on a piece of card with a few
the challenge. The word “can’t” is not in the
workshop and are always on the lookout
basic details of the required gloss level and
vocabulary of the powder coating company
for new ways to design architecture. This
intended visual effects. The task was passed
from Gossau.
The new powder coated façade of the cantonal pharmacy in Aarau with brush-finish.
Manual and customised work is in demand. Below, a distinctive structure of the broom finish in powder form. © Steiger Concept AG
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