Boon Edam Crystal Tourniket
28 October 2003
Transparency in Multiple Colours
The 1990’s have shown an architectural preference towards transparency in architecture, both in facade construction as well as in interior design. This preference has caused quite a revolution in the use of glass in combination with aluminium profiles.
This new balance between glass and aluminium is clearly reflected in Boon Edam’s Crystal Tourniket range. The Boon Edam Crystal Tourniket is made almost entirely of glass. Thanks to the very characteristics of aluminium itself, Boon Edam has succeeded in reducing the number of profiles and in rendering them as slim and elegant as possible. The doorwings, the sidewalls and even the ceiling are fully transparent, matching customer and architect preferences with respect to a building’s entry and its facade as a whole.
Boon Edam has recently introduced four coloured glass versions of the Crystal Tourniket. The customer and the architect are now offered additional possibilities to play with light and colours thanks to layered safety glass containing an extremely thin pvb-layer between the glass layers. Blue, Yellow, Green and Bronze Crystal Tournikets can now give a new dimension to hotels, office buildings, museums, libraries.
Boon Edam’s full glass doors of up to 3 meters high and with a diameter of up to 3 meter, with a drive hidden in or under the floor, can now be found in projects world-wide. The world’s most prestigious hotel, the Burj-al-Arab in Dubai, is just one example of the projects in the Middle East where the Boon Edam Crystal Tourniket has been chosen for the entrance.
“Aesthetics are often as important as the energy saving and draft control advantages of our revolving doors. Revolving doors are always open and closed at the same time. In a similar way we try to merge aesthetics with functionality and I must say we’re quite good at it. Despite of the fact that our doors are affordable for practically each customer group, Boon Edam doors are often said to be the Rolls Royce’s of the automatic door industry. We have to keep up a reputation.”
