nanawall façade tour 2011

NanaWall Façade Tour 2011 Amsterdam ,The Netherlands

Osnabruck, Germany

June 2011

Day 1

Preparing for the Audio Tour

Outside the Lloyd Hotel

A renovated reformatory is now a cultural embassy.

Helge laying out the game plan.

It’s a Beautiful Day

The Stretch Barge

The Eastern Docklands

Glass, rocks and bricks make up this courtyard.

Double Skin in the Eastern Docklands

On the Waterfront

A perfect day - sunshine with a pleasant breeze.

An operable solution for shade and sound.

Modular School

The architect explains the design and economics behind this modular school.

“Wimpie” out on the river.

Balconies

“Not just a place to store your bicycle and hibachi.”

The “Golden Rule”

Bicycles have the right of way since the get their own pathway.

Facades-Canals-Bicycles

A Day in the Life of Amsterdam

The Design Freedom Corridor

“Operable Double Skin with a Thermal Cavity”

Thanks Mic

Open Air Living

A Modern Life on the Water

“Sail on Sailor”- From the mid 1500’s to the late 1600’s

the Dutch ruled the sea’s.

What no rail ?

Operable Thermally Broken Double Skin System on the Water

A neighborhood of contemporary facades.

Bill shows off his new signature line of cars.

New vs. Old Facades

Hybrids vs. “Ducks” Vehicles

Now you know why they call it “The Duck”.

Yes, time for a café and for others “it’s five o clock somewhere”.

Time for the canal tour<..

As Popeye would say –

“All aboard that’s going aboard”

Finding Nemo with a patina.

All things Amsterdam

Canals, Facades , Boats and Bicycles

Webster’s definition of a yacht:

Any nautical craft for pleasure.

Taking in the canals by boat.

Again, bicycles do have the right of way.

Ongoing façade restoration can be witnessed throughout the city.

Postcard Day

Michel and Bob agree-

“Viva La Citroën”

The Symphony Hall

“Symphony Crashers “

To be released in local theaters everywhere.

Sorry George,

No Pink Floyd Tonight

Day 2

“Going Green”

On the roof of a gym.

Literally a green façade.

We do chicken and green facades right !

“No photographs” the man yelled and thanks to Gino

he went back to bed.

Artist commissioning as part of this façade.

Options: open, closed or partially opened.

Operable systems used in all the openings.

Park View Living

“Moving on Up”

Luxury living with avant garde design.

Open Air Courtyard.

Details within the façade work.

A park within a park.

Potted plants to scale.

I know there is a good joke here, come on we are in Amsterdam.

Good news, I am putting the band back together and we are going to be called:

Deep Balconies

Moving on to the Port District

Conversion from a conveyer system to commercial space.

Hard to capture the magnitude of this structure on camera.

As well as the magnitude of these River Cruise Ships.

Nautical elements are obvious in the intent of the design in this former ship building district.

Modular container living in the port district.

As we catch the ferry and catch a glimpse of a de-commissioned Soviet era submarine.

Hydrofoil

Voskhod-1090hp can cruise at 33 knots with 70 passengers

You don’t see one of these everyday.

It’s like being on the set of a James Bond movie.

BOTEL; could not find this one in Webster’s Dictionary

Sailing through the sea of cranes.

One of many interesting projects under construction and another “laser focused” bicyclist.

Lunchtime on the bridge.

An open kitchen platform on the bridge.

Sailing in to The Comfort Office

Solarlux – The Comfort Office

Njiverdal, The Netherlands

Explaining the energy efficiencies of this operable double skin

office building.

Double Skin provides comfort and energy efficiency.

Today where at 350 watts per hour that equals 1/5 of a hair dryer.

All Glass Display

Green roof with red plants.

Day 3

Solarlux Showroom

Bissendorf, Germany

Modular Balcony Systems on display.

Enjoying that new Conference Room smell.

Now Showing in the Architectural Tower

“Operable Double Skin Systems”

Ralph starts the plant tour.

George’s favorite part of the plant; the testing lab and pushing the limits.

Million cycle testing.

Yes, the SL25 off to a balcony or building somewhere in the world.

The wood working facility and it’s state of the art C&C routing.

Thanks Kerstin for all your support and assistance.

The Night Watchman Tour

Ed putting his Night Watchman face on.

Q & A on the Facades of the 15th Century

Explaining married life in the 1500’s.

Could the tower be haunted ?

Life back in the Dark Ages.

Bill will put an end to any talk about ghosts or witches.

Oh yes, the Arch and Waterloo discussion.

“Cheeky”

Art imitates life or vice a versa ?

Auf Wiedersehen und Danke

Osnabruck

Your Cast and Crew

From left to right:

Stefan, Gino, Matt, Kirk, George, Alex, Nicole, Michael, Andy, David, Mic, Michel, Bob, Christof, and Bill.