ECKELT GLAS on the new Acropolis Museum 10. June 2008

11,000 m² of cutting-edge glass technology at the New Acropolis Museum (NAM) in Athens .

ECKELT GLAS GmbH was contracted to design, supply and install the facades, glass floors and balustrades. Completion is expected at the end of the year.

Highest possible transparency – this requirement from the Greek administration was achieved by the Architect Bernard Tschumi using vast expanses of glass facades, allowing an unobstructed view up to the Parthenon of the old Acropolis.

With its consequent clear linear architecture, the New Acropolis Museum provides visitors with a discrete backdrop without dominating the antiquity of the whole ambience. Additional excavations below the museum can also be discovered and indeed “walked on” through the use of glass floors.

ECKELT GLAS provided all of the elements for the highly transparent and climate-controlling glass skin of the museum as well as the glass for staircases, floors and balustrades which have a total length of over 1 km.
In total about 11,000 m² of glass came from the factory in Steyr.
ECKELT specialists were also responsible for the complex design of the suspended facades.

A double-skin facade-system with SUNEX Solar control insulated glass incorporating DIAMANT Low-Iron glass and laminated safety glass as the inner pane provided the required solution to the extreme climate conditions. Attic areas were clad with black coloured enameled SGG EMALIT-H sheets.

The completion of the Museum is expected towards the end of this year, with a public opening toward the end of 2008 as the installation of the artwork will take ten to twelve months.  

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