Technical investigations on the facades of the Volksbank s.p.a. in Bolzano

The facades of the Volksbank head offices building have two different construction types:
On the north-facing front, the building is made of a glazed squares facade crowned by pillars and floor slabs covered in metal casings;
On the remaining fronts the construction solution envisages a ventilated cladding in dark gray “gun barrel” ceramic tiles alternated with double-skinned windows.

The panels of the ceramic ventilated facade, glued on fiber cement panels, are bound by an aluminum support structure to the reinforced concrete walls. The underlying reinforced concrete wall has a rock wool coating fixed with the thermal insulation technique.