Panel curtain wall EMPAC

glassaluminumstainless steel

The new Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) incorporates many separate, specialized performance and research venues including an acoustically advanced concert hall that seats 1,200, a 400-seat theater and numerous studios and halls.The south block consists of a rectangular building complex clad with aluminum façades. The steel façades of the north block consist of solid stick systems and a circulating water-heated mullion-transom façade of thick-wall triangular profiles. Indeed, this is the first curtain wall with integrated heating system ever installed in America. The unusual hull-shaped concert hall is situated between the two blocks and can be seen from the outside through the dramatic 30.5 m (100 ft) high glass curtain wall. Scope of Work 5,500 sqm (59,200 sq ft) of aluminum façades, steel & glass façades. Top hung open out windows.