Octagonal Challenges - The Westlight Office Building, Berlin

PROJECT

With "striking architecture and a maximum of comfort ", a new representative office building called "The Westlight" presents itself in Berlin's City-West. BEKA was contracted to supply this striking building with copper pipe meanders for around 2,500 m² of ceiling sails. The meanders were glued into metal ceiling panels with acoustic fleece.

Copper pipe technology for heating/cooling ceilings

The octagonal-inspired construction method demands a lot from the ceiling sails and thus from the installation of the registers. In many areas, the ceilings run asymmetrically. In addition to rectangular ones, many trapezoidal or diamond-shaped heating/cooling sails are also required. The sails often contain recesses for various ceiling fixtures (sprinklers, lights, loudspeakers). Some sails have curvatures to perfectly surround columns that break through the ceiling mirror. We and the executing company Apleona R&M Ausbau Berlin GmbH had to master these house challenges.

With such demanding ceilings, it's good to have a reliable partner by your side. Project manager Varga: "We know the register quality of BEKA, everything was fine there. The energetic team of BEKA gave us the necessary support with high professional competence to complete the project successfully."

A pleasing note on the side: technical equipment around the topic of indoor climate seems to be increasingly in the focus of real estate marketers. On the project website, Barings Real Estate GmbH advertises "responsive heating-cooling ceilings for an individual room climate" as one of the "highlights" of the building.