Modern new build with Fonterra Tacker behind a historical facade
A new bank has been built facing the “Frauenkirche” in Munich, Germany. In the interests of preserving the urban landscape the building's former front had to be retained, yet behind the listed facade, the interior is extremely modern. The building is now home to three companies with long-standing traditions. As the building owner, “Münchner Bank eG”, has set up its headquarters there together with a stylish bar of the “Augustiner-Bräu Wagner KG” and an office space of the men's fashion house “Hirmer”.
Bank with an excellent “customer climate”
To ensure a constant room temperature in the bank hall and gallery both on bitterly cold winter days and sweltering hot summer days, the entire floor area was fitted with the radiant heating and cooling system Fonterra Tacker. In the customer hall alone a heating load of around 34 kW has to be supplied and a corresponding cooling load conducted away.
To handle these loads in a manner conforming to official standards, a very small installation distance had to be chosen and every corner of the floor, however small, had to be used for the radiant heating and cooling system. And there are certainly enough corners in this new building: Steel beams, supply shafts and floor mountings, for example for cash machines, required lots of cut-outs.
Maximum and optimal use of space
The radiant heating and cooling system Fonterra Tacker was used together with PE-Xc pipe in the dimension of 17 x 2.0 mm. Depending on the heating and cooling loads, the installation spacing of the pipes could be adapted with great flexibility, both with respect to the very different usage conditions of the bank and gastronomy area as well as to functionality. After all, unlike in the bank, in the gastronomy areas the Fonterra system is not used for cooling. The installation spacing thus varies from 10 cm in the bank hall to up to 16.5 cm in the bar.
The radiant heating and cooling system is also flexible when it comes to efficient material consumption: Despite the complicated nature of the floor plan, waste caused by cutting was kept to around 2%.