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New BMW showroom, Esch-sur-Alzette/Luxembourg:

The new BMW Muzzolini garage at the crossroads of a busy main road and the edge of the Um Monkeler industrial area is an eye-catching newbuild that serenely meets the strict corporate identity requirements set by BMW for its official distributors. Just a few materials – glass, steel, white walls – have been used to create a sleek building which makes a clear, unmistakeable statement in this urban mixed-use zone with its continuous façade measuring up to seven and a half metres high made from high-strength VISS 60 profiles from Schüco Jansen Steel Systems.

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The Muzzolini garage newbuild presents cars of the BMW brand, sport model M and electric model BMWi across a space of 4500 m2. Architect Louis Weisgerber deliberately avoided closed façade areas when designing the ambitious commercial building. The façade construction, made from high-strength VISS 60 steel profiles from Schüco Jansen Steel Systems and measuring up to seven and a half metres high, allows views into the showroom from all sides.

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The façade modules were developed from the concrete skeleton of the building shell and measure 2.5 x 3.0 m as standard.

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However, in the two-storey foyer, the façade stretches to an impressive height of 7.5 m, with the steel mullions continuing as one piece.

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The highlight is that the load of the horizontal sun shading is borne directly by the façade profiles. For this, steel flats, on which the tubular profile load-bearing structure rest, were welded to the transoms.

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The offices are located in a cube on the top floor, which is fitted with safety barrier glazing made from VISS profiles from Schüco Jansen Steel Systems.

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A wide staircase connects the ground floor to the upper floor; with a meeting area in front of the offices.

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Employees can always see the showroom from their desks too thanks to the interior windows made from the VISS steel profile system.

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