KAV Receives ALUTA Excellence Prize for Outstanding Aluminum Window Solutions
2023 / 06 / 15
This year, KAV has once again been honored with the prestigious ALUTA Excellence Prize, the sole recognition for Hungarian aluminium window and facade manufacturers. The ALUTA Excellence Prize in the “small project” category acknowledged the remarkable aluminium window solutions of the Felhő Street Reformed Kindergarten, with its most distinctive feature being the curved curtain wall boasting over 700 unique angles.
The KAV team has been recognized once more with the ALUTA Excellence Prize. We were responsible for the design, manufacturing, and installation of curtain walls, fire-resistant curtain walls, doors, fire-resistant doors, windows, and heat and smoke exhaust windows at the Svábhegy Reformed Kindergarten. In certain parts of this architecturally unique building, the height of shaped glass approached nearly 6 meters. The majority of the glass facade is vertically divided by a grass-covered ramp ascending the facade, which not only rises but also twists in space, enhancing its exceptional impact. Given that angles had to be cut into the curtain wall mullions from all directions on the inner curve, unconventional solutions were employed for securing the mullions.
At the ALUTA assembly, Mr. Károly Lovász, CEO of KAV, received the award from Mr. Sándor Fegyverneky, the president of the professional association. The chairman of the judging committee was Dr. József Finta, a Kossuth Prize-winning architect, and the committee members were Mr. György Stocker, an associate professor, and Mr. Sándor Fegyverneky, a former chief national architect.
About the Prize:
ALUTA announces a public competition every year to recognize architectural creations that align with its professional expectations and are characterized by modern, creative, innovative, environmentally conscious, rational, and high-quality architectural designs in aluminium-glass facade construction. Only those companies that consider production and product quality as essential prerequisites for realizing their market strategy and thus serve as custodians of the ALUTA trademark can become members of the association.
KAV Receives ALUTA Excellence Prize for Outstanding Aluminum Window Solutions
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