STADTSCHLOSS (CITY PALACE), BERLIN

THE PROJECT AND ITS REQUIREMENTS

After a construction period of just over seven years, a modern museum, knowledge and meeting centre was erected on a usable area of approx. 44,300 m² behind the reconstructed baroque exterior façades of the Berlin Palace: the Humboldt Forum.

With a building length of 180 m, a width of 120 m and an approx. 65 metre-high dome in an historic baroque look, this imposing building represented a particular challenge for the structural component bearings. The building itself was executed as a reinforced concrete skeleton frame construction as well as a double-shell aluminium/glass façade construction and consists of six storeys with ceiling heights of approx. 9 m and three mezzanine floors.

THE SOLUTION

For the reconstruction of the Berlin Palace, Calenberg supplied specially manufactured Civalit linear sliding bearings to support the impressive façade construction.
The sliding bearings were installed underneath it in order to absorb the considerable length changes towards the outside as planned.