When planning its new combined production and office building, Fiberline Composites took the opportunity to showcase some fascinating examples of what the company’s profiles will mean for window and facade designers in the years ahead.

Every day, tens of thousands of motorists drive past Fiberline’s new domicile near the Danish town of Middelfart. What they see is an impressive, high-tech, oblong-shaped edifice rising out of the landscape and pierced by three slanted towers of glass and composite.

Composite windows combined with facade

Except for the glass towers the facade is entirely made of composite.

The 300 metre facade works dynamically; its surface is broken by narrow bands of windows that at night become illuminated threads. Viewed from the motorway, the windows seemingly have neither frames nor sills, an effect induced by the slim and elegant composite profiles.

The narrow frames admit increased daylight to the interior and contribute positively to the building’s energy balance. The composite also provides effective insulation and prevents thermal bridging, which improves energy balance still further.

Glass towers and facade cladding
Viewed from close to it becomes evident that, except for the glass, the facade is built entirely of composite.

Around the windows the facade is clad with composite panels, turning the building envelope into a unified entity. The profiles have been left plain (unlacquered), accentuating the reinforcement and producing an architecturally intriguing appearance.

In this case a translucent version of the profiles has been used, which creates a distinctive lighting effect when the sun’s rays strike the composite.

The building is pierced by three massive slabs of light - the three slanted glass towers, which contain meeting rooms and stairways. From the towers, three large bands of skylight run the length of the 23,000 m2 factory, pulling daylight into the production area.