ARCHITECTURAL
project design
Vitré Business Park, Ille-et- GKD / ag4 media facade 59
MEDIA FACADE
Vilaine, Brittany
FRANCE
GKD IN BUSINESS
GKD’S ILLUMESH STAINLESS STEEL MESH WITH INTEGRATED LEDS GETS ITS WORLDWIDE
DEBUT IN VITRÉ TO BRIGHTEN UP ITS NEW BUSINESS PARK
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A business park with modern While the 67 square metre panel a metal mesh with LED profiles ing 16 million colours through to
buildings has recently opened in on the right is only equipped with mounted in front of it. This allows complex animation of the façade
Vitré in Brittany’s Ille-et-Vilaine, a single LED profile at the top the material, based on the woven – but in all cases an enhancement
an area steeped in rich heritage. and the bottom, the 100 square cable mesh Tigris, to be directly of the architecture at relatively low
Since autumn last year, one of metre panel on the left has a illuminated and to have images expenditure.
the business park’s building’s total of 10 LED profiles. At night, projected onto the mesh. The size The advantages of ILLUMESH are
façade has been visually en- the transparent media façade is of the illuminated area depends its transparency, its resistance to
hanced by 167 square metres programmed to display fascinat- on the angle at which the mesh weather and temperature, and
of the medialised mesh system ing colour effects. These visuals is illuminated; the quality of the the low-maintenance concept of
ILLUMESH made of stainless steel have a special three-dimensional illumination on the vertical and the whole system. Even from afar,
with integrated LED technology. quality due to their projection horizontal intervals between the the attractive new building with
This worldwide debut for the onto the round stainless steel pixels. On the building in France, its unique media façade draws
media façade variant is a radiant wires. During the day, the offices the vertical pixel interval on the attention to the business park on
eye-catcher that displays a variety behind the façade have a clear left panel is just 70 centimetres the outskirts of the historic city in
of video sequences visible from view outwards, while from outside and on the right panel 6.7 me- the distance. ILLUMESH® lends
miles away. As a counterpoint to the building takes on a shimmer- tres; the horizontal pixel interval international big-city flair to the
the historic buildings of Vitré, the ing metallic look. on both panels is 10 centimetres. community of Vitré, giving it an
building now sets its surroundings Developed by GKD – Gebr These parameters and the result- innovative, dynamic and modern
in a spectacular new light. Kufferath AG in cooperation with ing pixel density determine the character.
Like enormous monitors, the the Cologne-based company ag4 density of the illumination. This
two ILLUMESH® panels have a media facade GmbH, ILLUMESH allows a wide range of options: www.creativeweave.de
spellbinding effect on the viewer. is a unique product worldwide: from versatile colour displays us- www.mediafacade.com
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